I personaly prefer the way couching looks when doing light color on dark colors. When it's the other way around I think they look too much alike with backstitching it's not worth it.

But it's also probably because I look at my projects very closely, I'm sure I'm the only one thinking about it when looked at from a normal viewing distance.

But maybe it feels so tedious because I just do it like I think I should do it, from looking only at pics of couching, maybe I should find a few good tutorials and look at them, I could learn something...

So many questions ! Please keep me motivated !

Also I'm not sure about the blue ring around as it's on black aïda and I will probably framed it in a hoop.