Keep your first lines and guidelines or marks very light so they are easy to erase if needed.
You can keep going over a crosshatched area in different directions until it is as dark as you want it.
For very light areas don’t use any cross-hatching at all, just leave it the color of the paper.
Hatching and crosshatching lines do not always need to be regularly spaced, the spacing can be different between different marks or different areas of a drawing.
Crosshatching can also be combined with shading to create overall value in a drawing.