After the grafting comes the tidying. I graft super super super super super loosely (no, looser than that).

That both prevents me from accidentally making my stitches too tight (something that is easy to do when they don’t have a needle in there to constrain them) and makes it easy to find/trace them if I need to do any troubleshooting.

Then, once the graft is finished, I go along and tighten up each leg of each stitch (starting at the beginning of the graft and working my way along to the end). I usually need two, occasionally three rounds to get it just so, but once it’s done, it really is pretty darn invisible.

If you want to watch me do it/listen to me narrate what I’m doing, you can find a short version on instagram or a longer version on patreon (it’s a public post, anyone can see it) and do just that.