Anastasia | Hand embroidery on Instagram: "What’s your go-to stitch for outlines? Couching is my favorite! I know it’s an unusual choice, but I love the beautiful textured look it creates (in the video, I’m using wool). Couching is also quick, making it perfect for covering large areas in your work. 🪡🧵"

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 embroider the trailing couching stitch in this DIY video and step-by-step tutorial.

Learn an essential hand embroidery stitch: the couching stitch in this video from Threads Magazine seamstress Norma Bucko.

Have you ever heard of puffy couching? I was looking through one of my embroidery stitch books ( The Embroiderer's Handbook by Margie Bau...

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

I think all of us know couching !!!!!. There are various way to couch, some use herringbone stitch to couch a thread, some buttonhole stitch .... so on. Basic couching, have a look at below picture, lay a thread or cord, then run simple stitch to hold thread at regular intervals as shown in picture. Couching Here i have used 6 strands of thread for laying and 2 strands of thread for couching. Couching Couching Simple exercise, i have taken a circle to work couching. Couching Observe above…