Quilty friend Terri, has been busy enhancing her skills. With the popularity of the panels in the quit shops, it is the perfect opportunity to work on quilting and embellishment skills. Terri has been working on "doodle" skills on her Baby Lock Coronet and decided to go one step further, couching!
Some time ago, couching was a popular embellishment, certainly pre-dating the machine embroidery movement. It was a bit rudimentary if I remember correctly. All I needed was a zig-zag machine where you could widen the swing of the stitch. Ribbon, yarn, braids, etc. could be attached using a new "transparent" thread that was very fussy. It was stiff, snapped if you sewed more than slow, slow, slow speed and it was not, I repeat not, transparent. The quality had improved over time but then the machine manufacturers started making specialty feet where you could feed the cord or whatever through a groove in the foot, drop the feeds, and take off. A wonderful improvement.
Now, with our quilting machines, the manufacturers have expanded the choice of specialty feet for custom work and this is what Terri used, the couching foot. Not inexpensive, it is a choice for the fabric artist that goes beyond basic quilting.
The foot set comes as three, different sizes for different sizes of material used. This is wise because if you want to run something larger through the foot it would fold over, stitch through, be a mess.
- Notice the bow on the panel. Terri couched yarn around the edges and it adds, color, texture, and dimension. In addition, her doodle quilting adds another level of contrast. Too cute!
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