TAST 9 & BEYOND TAST 9

 TAST 9 - COUCHING

Couching is a stitch technique where in the thread, yarn or ribbon laid on the surface of the fabric is fixed with  stitches. The stitches used for fixing can be patterned to be brick like ,grid like etc

                                              

In the first row, I tried to couch white knitting yarn with embroidery floss on a brick like pattern.  The second row depicts the couching of perl cotton thread.  The third and fourth rows are the couching of ric rac ribbons.

BEYOND TAST 9 - CHAINED BAR

This is a type of couching stitch.  Very long lines of thicker thread or ribbons are stitched down in the surface of the fabric.  This forms the foundation of the stitch. On top of this foundation, zig zag chain stitch  is worked.  I have tried working out the chained bar stitches with the foundation made out of satin ribbon (row 3 and row 5).  Others (row1,row 2,row 4), the foundation is made of thicker perl cotton thread.