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I'm the analog weirdo who's currently about halfway through this kit using a printed paper pattern that I don't even bother to mark off (and yes, I do occasionally miss a few stitches in a given colour and have to load up a spare needle to fix it). Since I don't carry a phone or tablet, and I do most of my stitching on a different floor of the house from my computer, my setup just isn't app-friendly.
(I'm also a Linux user, which restricts the set of commodity software available to me.)
Respect! I can do it your way for relatively small patterns but it would drive me mad with full coverage. I remember working on Alpine by Satsuma Street like that, and ending up with one missed stitch in the middle of a mountain, and omg I could not convince myself to go in and fix it for the sake of one stitch! Took forever to get my brain to agree to do it 😅
I admit, I cheat a bit—if I can fill in a stitch I missed with one of the colours I'm working now rather than the intended one, and still have the result make visual sense, I go right ahead and do that. Just not enough of a perfectionist, I guess. 😅
Absolutely with you on that one! Sadly Alpine was very block colours, clean lines so it would've been obvious. But nothing wrong with a bit of bodging where appropriate 😀