Yarn couching

Yarn couching is an easy technique to dress up an applique block or a garment. Three tips to help perfect your yarn couching adventure are discussed. You'll also find some great applique ideas using decorative stitches.

Free Motion Couching Foot Set / Ruler Foot

Watch the video tutorial below or scroll down for the written instructions What is Couching? Couching is a technique where you lay yarn, thread, ribbon, etc on top of your fabric and stitch them in place with a zigzag or fancy stitch, either in a similar thread or a contrasting thread. Couching adds interest and texture to your projects. I love playing around with different wools, threads, embroidery threads, lace, wool roving, and assorted cords to make my projects pop. Do You Need a…

Top down: Some blue metallic knitting yarn couched with blue Pearl No 8, a velvet yarn couched with buttonhole stitch using a shaded Pearl No 8 (weird on the curves), a fancy yellow ric-rac couched with herringbone, a braid couched with two rows of barred chain (without the intermediate chain stitch), a red check ribbon couched with different arrangements of fly stitch, a torn strip if yellow organza couched with Cretan stitch, some fancy yarn couched with cross stitch and finally pink…

This is a creative project using various yarn with bright threads with lots and lots of decorative stitches. The real … More

By Bethanne Nemesh. My fiber art quilt, featuring nesting saffron crested cockatoos. It uses yarn couching, tufting, embroidery, hand dye yarns, custom quilting, Freemotion machine quilting, hand dye fabric. Auctioned off at Houston Quilt Festival 2019 celebrity auction

Another Couched Cushion, with a 'bit of a twist' this time. I couched the side balls too! Hey, I needed the distraction: I was watching Lifetime,Television for Women, or as I like to call it: Women In Peril TV. (Lifetime...

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By Bethanne Nemesh Detail from my jacket, Golden Afternoon. Featuring yarn couching, embroidery, tufting, Freemotion machine quilting, hand dye yarns, fiber art, and wearable fiber art

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The BERNINA free-motion couching foot makes adding texture to your projects a breeze. Using the free-motion foot and colorful yarn, I … More

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Here is a fun tip for using embroidery to mimic free motion couching. … More

Couching is an embellishment technique where a cord or yarn is stitched to the surface of fabric for added color and texture. Originally a hand technique, it has been adapted to the sewing machine. Freemotion Couching Foot #43 holds the cord in place for stitching and with the feed dog of the machine lowered, allows the freedom of movement to follow any design, motif, or pattern. See tips for stitching.