How to use and what to do with the decorative stitches on your sewing machine

These decorative stitches are in most of your sewing machines, I find many people do not use these beautiful stitches to their full advantage, what I like to do is overlap decorative stitches with different coloured thread, as you can see in the photos. Have fun and experiment!

Press the fabric using your iron

Lay the fabric in between the spaces of your decorative stitches and stitch down the fabric

Showing all the fabric stitched down

This photo showing you another way of using your decorative stitches in your machine

I stitched the rick rack down using a straight stitch and a similar colour thread first.
I then stitched a decorative stitch over the straight stitch in a white thread