involves stitching done while moving the fabric in whatever direction is desired. To accomplish this, the sewing machine's feed dogs are lowered. The feed dogs are the metal teeth immediately under where the fabric lies in the sewing area. These keep the material from sliding around while sewing; lowering these allows for multi-directional fabric movement during sewing, enabling whatever stitched patterns are desired.

The example shown in this photo depicts a filled stitched area. But it can also be a line of stitches in a meandering or curved pattern. This detail from "River of Life" also shows couched and needle felted yarn (upper left), and the surface needle felting of a sparse amount of roving into the underlying fabric (lower right).