Easy Stitched Wrinkled Ribbon with SuperTape

Today I wanted to share a quick tip with you for an easy way to add wrinkled and crinkled ribbon to a flat surface.

I wanted to add a strip of dyed crinkled ribbon as an accent to my project.  I wanted to stitch the ribbon to both keep it in place and add a decorative element.  I felt that if I just laid the ribbon in place and sewed it that it would move and flatten out with the presser foot.

The solution I found was to lay a strip of SuperTape where I planned to place the ribbon.  After removing the red tap liner, I laid my ribbon all wrinkled and bunched up on the SuperTape strip.  I pressed the ribbon gently down onto the tape.  I was then able to sew a line over the ribbon while it was held firmly in place just as I wanted it.  The look and dimension of crinkled ribbon was preserved while adding in the extra element of a stitched line.  Although SuperTape is extremely strong, I had not problem with sewing through it or having adhesive residue on my sewing needle.

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supplies: SuperTape