I want to make a ribbon like this.

I know how to do it the "traditional" way. Make a shape, a shape behind, adjust nodes, cut if I want, create another shape... you know, craftmanship. Looks good in the end but it's very time consuming and you have to adjust everything very very carefully so it just don't look artificial. So I was trying alternative easier methods and I wonder if there is a way to do this I didn't think of.

The most promising to me is make a rentangle and apply pattern along path with single, stretched parameters. It works great when the ribbon is a single line (no matter how curvy it is) but if you want the ribbon to bend over itself beyond a certain degree the effect starts messing with the corners and these are the results.

Also, while reading another post in this subreddit I realised that pattern along path used to have a "deformation type: ribbon" in the past. Is this gone forever?

Is there a way to draw a ribbon easily?