Stitch Workshop Couching Stitch

Couching is used to attach a thread called the laid thread to the fabric using tiny stitches, called Couching Stitches. Couching allows you to embellish your embroidery with all sorts of threads and fibres, such as thick metallics, strands of beads or even wire. The technique can be used as an outline, around the edge of shapes, or as a filling stitch when worked close together in rows or spirals. You can also use it to create a raised effect by covering up the laid thread completely with the Couching Stitches, which is what we’ll show