Trailing Couching Stitch
The trailing couching stitch can be used for lines, outlining, or to fill in shapes. It's a very versatile stitch that looks like a covered lines. Use this DIY video and step-by-step tutorial to learn how to use the trailing couching stitch to embroider lines.
What you'll need to create the trailing couching stitch:
Trailing Couching Stitch Video
Trailing Couching Stitch Step-by-Step Tutorial
1. Trailing couching is very similar to the couching stitch. With trailing the laid thread is entirely covered by the working thread, leaving a raised line. To start the trailing couching stitch, bring the needle with the laid thread up from the back of your fabric at the starting point of the line. Unthread the needle so that the laid thread is loose on the front of the fabric.
2. Now rethread the needle with the thread that will tac down the laid thread to the front of the fabric. Come up from the back of the fabric on one side of the laid thread.
3. Now bring the needle back down on the other side of the laid thread, making a short stitch across it.
4. Make the next tacking stitch right next to the first. Repeat until the laid thread is entirely covered by the working thread.
5. Once the laid thread is covered, bring it to the back of the fabric and knot it off. Repeat for the working thread.
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