Yes, I can stitch along the diagonal – see!

Being what I accomplished in my New Years start
This is a 20 stitch wide diagonal with the first two completed. The fabric is 16 ct white Aida easy-count (translated to – it comes pre-gridded in 10s) Total pattern is 341 x 225 and is a full-coverage design.
But what I was going to say is that my discipline went a bit off the rails as I ran into just a few too many places where, rather than parking the thread, I went ahead and stitched another one or two stitches so that the particular color would be finished. And my nice, even edge turned into this –

which is 5250/76,725 completed stitches
It is cheerful, the colors are bright. but neat? rather not….
Sometimes ya just gotta let loose and live the wild life.
or just follow where the graph takes you. Fortunately, that works here. In knitting? not so much!