Stitching Blogger's Question of the Week: Stitching Rules?

Do you have rules in the way you stitch? (i.e., Do you start in the middle? Do you determine which blocks to stitch first? Do you always start from the top or the bottom? Do you have special paths to prevent wasting thread?)

I usually start in the middle of the fabric on most projects that I begin. I generally like to start with a big block of colour and then do the odd confetti stitches afterwards. Sometimes I weave the thread through the back of the design to get to a new stitching area rather than fastening it off and beginning again, providing it is not too far. I find this tends to save me a bit of thread that is lost when I cut the loose end off.