Take A Stitch Tuesday 2012 Challenge - Week 9

Here is my exercise in couching for week 9:


and here is February's "page":

I had fun with this one. I've done couching before, but usually as borders or ways to hold down very log straight stitches as embellishments on top of needlepoint or cross stitch. In this one, I added some scraps from Rainbow gallery (ribbons and a suede thread and couched it with chevron stitch. But if you look further up the page, you will see I also used another piece of grosgrain ribbon in my chevron stitch exercise.