Embroidery couching stitch

About the Couching Family Couching is embroidery work where the threads are laid across the pattern and fastened or anchored down with small stitches.

Couching is the process of using embroidery stitches to stitch a cord (or yarn or decorative thread) to the surface of your fabric. It's a fun way to add some nice dimension to your work and it can give you a really unique effect. Give it a try! If you want to couch using your

Couching may not be one of the most well known embroidery stitches, but it's versatility definitely makes it worth knowing about!

Learn how to use a couching stitch for different effects in hand embroidery

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Today is my final embroidery tutorial, and as previously mentioned it is on couching. Couching is basically using one thread the sew anot...

TAST-2012-9th Week-Couching Stitches This week Sharon has announced Couching Stitches for the challenge. You can visit Sharon's Page at Pintangle for further information. I have not done much couching before. So I am very excited to get this opportunity to explore the couching stitches. here are my first set of attempts: My stitches are not perfect as I am finding it difficult sometimes to work on even weave fabric. I need more practice. Moreover after working many hours on key board, when I…

Buttonhole stitch (aka blanket stitch) is a fun stitch that'll help you create all sorts of different effects in your embroidery.

This is the last stitch lesson in this month and also, the longest one. It's because we are going to take a look not just at one stitch, but a whole family, learning various types of thread couching! Couching is a common technique in hand embroidery and has both functional and decorative purposes. If you have a thick thread, cord, string, wire, metal thread that you want to attach to the fabric, you can couch it, using additional thread and making small straight stitches across it. This way…