In a comment re detail 260 I was asked
‘how do you hold down the rickrack while you sew the herringbone stitches?’
I start by attaching one end of the ric rac (These also work for braids and laces)…There are several ways to attach the end of the ric rac to the seam: I mostly slit a few stitches in a seam, slip the end of the ric rac under it and then restitch the seam, If I don’t have access to the seam I turn the end under, with ric rac you can twist it back on itself so that the end finishes tucked in or the end can be covered with a lace motif or a button cluster or on of Sharon’s ric rac roses would cover the end nicely.
The actual answer to the question is that I don’t hold the braid down while doing the stitches…I lay it along the seam, if it moves I adjust it before taking the next stitch…If you are still learning the stitch or just knot comfortable without the ric rac being held in place then you can run a tacking thread down the middle of the ri rac braid, work the stitch and then remove the tacking.
Work the Herringbone Stitch into the spaces on the ric rac.
To hold the ric rac (this also works well with ribbons) on with Colonial Knots come up close to the edge of the ric rac braid or ribbon, make the knot and go down just beside the braid.
or use any other stitch that you can fit into the spaces or a combination of several stitches.
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