I'm totally new with embroidery, your videos are really really good, you explain very well, thanks for all your work and shared with the Inkscape community.
Your tutos are the best around. You keep in mind how the machine will render your design the best way - I mean the most artistic way - possible. It requires much more work. Those fonts are gorgeous.
The bob ross of stitching!!! I wanna start doing my own personal hats and making the programs to take to the stores so they can be made.. custom done by me rather than paying them to have my design digitized then have them bring them to life
Thanks for your fine YTs. I'm learning a lot. But I have a problem. If I make a text from inksticth lettering I can't choose tread colour without getting some "shadows" around the letters? Do you have a yt whit that?
I’m following your video and looks great with the railroad track look, but once I hit the params button it looks like a blob on the screen verses making a letter. Am I missing a step? Thank you for your time! Your videos are great!
Use the nodes tool to select only one of the rails, then do path > reverse. Should fix you right up ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o56TsB--nqc.html
For the most part you have to do that manually. This should help. If you still have questions I'll be happy to answer them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M38GK7iRu0k.html
It's necessary if you don't want to have jump stitches to cut after the project is done. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M38GK7iRu0k.html
absolutely. use the nodes select tool and move the nodes on the very end closer together. If there are too many nodes do path > simplify. Double click to add a node as needed. If this doesn't make sense let me know and I'll do a quick vid to show what I mean.
@@LowTechLinux much appreciated, so I have to edit manually after I have turned the line to satin stitch and it has created the runners. It's a shame it doesn't recognise the rounded cap end.
Please what do I do every time I use my bezier tool instead of drawing a line or tracing the object as I marked it just fills up the object I traced almost like a bucket tool
After you trace go to the fill and stroke tool, select no fill, select stroke. If you make bezier lines and don't close it, press enter without closing it, it should make a stroke line without filling it
This is very helpful, thank you! I need to learn the basics and how you got to this point. I can't even figure out how to zoom way in and create nodes with being able to move around the image because it doesn't all fit on the screen. Also, as I'm clicking through it will randomly stop and form an irregular shape image over my text. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. 🤦🏼♀️ Which video should I watch to learn the basics before attempting the satin stitches? I tried basic stitches but it makes a mess of it and it comes out rough.
What helps is to have your left hand on the keyboard by control and shift and always be ready to use ctrl+z to undo anything you want to undo, using shift+crtl and your center mouse wheel will zoom in and out easily. Having a basic knowlege of inkscape will be very beneficial to anyone wanting to use it for embroidery because all keyboard shortcuts in it are universally used here. I would strongly suggest checking out some inkscape tutorials first then coming back to this channel, as this is actually pretty advanced for a new user.
i’ve tried this tutorial and i don’t know what i’m doing wrong, when i hit enter after doing a like for nodes, the whole shape distorts and i don’t know how to fix it :(
Hello, what version of Inkstitch is this one? I'm finding the new one difficult to follow and it often crashes. Your tutorial is very helpful, thank you!!
Lol. To be honest I really didn't need that running stitch on the last one. Force of habit from doing really small satin stitch fonts. It's good practice to do that running stitch but not always necessary. Had this been a much smaller stitch out it's more necessary and also better to reduce the tie offs as much as possible.
Mostly just match the color of the thread to the foam, and increase the density of the satin stitch to at least .2 mm. If you can slow the machine down that would be good too
Question. I have a Brother single needle with a 4x4 hoop. What would you suggest for ways to stitch out patterns larger than the 4x4, but look joined or like it was done in one pass?
@@LowTechLinux Kind my plan. I was thinking of how to do registration marks. My only thought right now is with Tailor's chalk. Getting the item back into the hoop so the embroidery stays even top to bottom and side to side.
Normally you don't want to do less than a 1 mm width for a satin column. I have done about .6 mm, but its hard to get it perfect. Tips and tricks would be center line underlay at 1mm, no underlay less than that. I will usually do my own running stitches and turn off tie offs inside the letter. Really most important is the stabilizer. The smaller the font the stronger the stabilizer. On really tricky stitches we use a mesh stabilizer with a spray on adhesive.
@@LowTechLinux just wanted to thank you for the advice. My small lettering came out awesome. New to embroidery and inkstitch and your videos have Helped a ton. Thanks again.
Do you mean the columns for the satin stitches came out to narrow? If that's the case you can do params and increase the pull compensation and make the columns wider that way.
I recently accidently erased my hard drive and started over. I don't have this particular project anymore. Iirc I just used the default param settings for this demonstration
I keep getting the error message "Only simple lines may be converted to satin columns" when I try to convert my lines to satin. How do i fix this issue?
I'm guessing the line you're talking about was created by "trace bitmap"? Trace bitmap creates only fill lines. They look line lines but they are actually a fill shape and can't be converted to a satin stitch. Use the bezier tool and trace the line in the middle. After, go to fill and stroke, stroke style and set the width to the same width of the line you're tracing. You can then convert that newly created line to a satin stitch. Then delete the original fill line.
Please help. I just outlined a snowman, made each line a satin stitch and now I can’t save it. .pes file. I’m just practicing and wanted to stitch it out.
Run the troubleshoot to make sure everything is valid. It only takes one error to fail to save as an embroidery file. If troubleshoot says everything is valid, save it as an svg. Close inkscape. Reload the image in inkscape and see if you can save as pes. If not try saving as a .dst file to see if inkstitch will save as a different embroidery file. Let me know if any of these work.
@@LowTechLinux I closed and opened Inkstitch a number of times and it finally saved. Then I took Inkscape off my computer and installed an older version. I’m hoping that will help. I’m using a Mac. Thanks so much for responding.
Make sure there is a line to convert, fill and stroke > stroke, set to at least 1 mm. And then make sure you are selecting that line object before you try to convert. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M38GK7iRu0k.html
@@LowTechLinux another dumb question man, sorry. Im working on this planet kosmos font, but, as i said dumb question: is possible to do an entire letter on satin or it gives me only the border? Because im struggling to make it a satin..fill? I think
by default it's the 3rd button up on the menu on the left, just says 'measure' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lb-igRmj6uQ.htmlsi=c_FegPPcAvhkc5q4&t=138
@@elizacriestoomuchh that's odd. I thought it just showed in the left hand tool bar by default. There are two shortcut keys for the bezier tool. Press b on your keyboard should activate the bezier tool If that doesn't work, try the key combo shift+F6.
Is there seriously no way to just turn the letters into "simple lines" and then use the "convert line to satin"? Why do they make us do this ridiculous process for each letter/each font?