A Lesson in Couching Ornament (Loretta Spears Designs)

A Lesson in Couching, Courtesy of Needleartnut

A Lesson in Couching is a two and a quarter inch square ornament meant to be hung by a point as a diamond shape.  This was a Loretta Spears Designs chart published in June 1996.

A Lesson in Couching Cover Page

The cover page is usually pink but as you see in the photo above, some are yellow.  Loretta must have run out of the pink copy paper.


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Cover Page, Threads and Canvas Courtesy of Needleartnut

Closer Look at Materials for Original Colorway

Materials List:

5x8 white Congress cloth (large enough to do two such ornaments)
Waterlilies silk floss #023 Parfait (pinks, blues and cream)
Kreinik #8 fine braid #032 (opalescent white)

Finished Lesson in Couching, Courtesy of Needleart Nut

Needleartnut is blog-stitching this piece.  Here's the first step.
http://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2012/03/lesson-in-couching.html

Here is the second.
http://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2012/03/lesson-in-couching-2.html

And here is the finished piece.
http://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-lesson-in-couching.html

Original Model in Closeup from Cover Page

Here is a closeup of the cover page photo of the design.