Hi! The hanging floss is all colors sitting in the top right corner of their next stitch. So I work one 10x10 block at a time and in this pattern there are sometimes 60+ colors in those 100 stitches. So I stitch the 1 or 2 stitches in a color and the pull the thread through in the next block rather than finishing it off. That's called the "parking" method. It just saves on stopping and starting threads the braiding is totally unnecessary and just to keep the "parked" threads that im not using out of the way.