Brand new to embroidering. I’m a big open source guy! After watching your tutorial I am dumbfounded people pay hundreds to thousands for digitization softwares. You’re doing the lords work man! The real MVP!🐐
I have ZERO digitizing and embroidery experience & your videos are SOOOO easy to follow!! You do such a great job explaining everything and you move at such a good pace that its easy to follow along!!! Prior to watching this video, I was watching another inkstitch tutorial video and I felt so lost/confused, that person was moving too quick and not explaining everything they were doing, and I watched that video 3 times!! Yes, 3 times and still didn't understand wtf I was doing & kept getting lost!! The only thing I got out of that video was learning how to download Inkscape/Inkstitch onto my Mac. My embroidery machine is still sitting by my front door in an unopened box and I was starting to lose hope & was seriously thinking about shipping it back. BUT THEN, I found your videos! I've already learned sooo much!! My only regret is that I didn't find you sooner!!! Im going to watch a few more of your videos and I'm going to open my embroidery machine (its been sitting there for awhile). Keep up the good work! Can't wait to watch the rest of your content. :) please keep making more beginner videos.
Thank you for the kind words. It's actually why I started doing inkstitch tutorials. I mostly had to learn on my own since there weren't very many good tutorials out there. Now the are many more good ones but I like to think mine are among those good ones. Comments like yours make me happy 😁
Thank you so much for your videos. I've watched the whole beginner series and was able to digitize my own logo. Your videos are the only one out there for using InkStitch. Very helpful
I just love your videos. I taught myself inkscape 5 years ago for using the cricut. I just bought my embroidery machine (Husqvarna Designer Topaz 50) and was thrilled to learn about inkstitch. I just had foot surgery and I can't bear weight on it for 6 weeks so watching your videos and learning will help my recovery. Thank You! Happy Stitching!
This is awesome! BabyLock p’ed me off so bad. Their software was so expensive and then they stopped supporting it, and refused to release it even tho I lost a computer it was on. It was BS. I know Inkscape already, so I’m looking forward to learning this! Thank you! And thanks to all the OpenSource developers!!! ❤
Just found your video today and I’m so excited to see it. I have a brother embroidery machine and want to learn how to use ink stitch for my embroidery projects.
Excellent video. I recently started with inkscape 1.2. Had no idea it had an embroidery extension. I remember version 0.9 inkscape years ago on Ubuntu and had not looked at it in years. So many improvements. I will be adding this inkstitch as I do have embroidery machine. I used to use Thred digitizing software years ago, based on vector. Eventually programmer retired. He put the software out for GNU. Not sure where it is now. Would be nice if it could be another extension for inkscape. It did all sorts of nice shapes. AND lots of fill patterns. This video is well organized and your voice is clear and easy to understand. Thank you for doing videos.
Ahh, I can't find it now but I think inkstitch was a fork or a continuation of another plugin. This other thing that I can't think of might be the thing you can't think of too LOL. Inkstitch has come a long way just in the short time I've been using it.
Just have to say you have the absolute best videos and explanations of this program. I'm more no tech than low tech and this has made even me understand how to use this software better. I am eternally grateful! I was about to rip my hair out before I found you. You deserve an award Sir! Thank you!🙏
Thank you so much for these excellent videos. I've just started to machine embroider with my Brother embroidery only machine and would like to create my own designs. You have helped me so much 😀
I'm new to inkscape/inkstitch and never thought making a simple line segment would be a huge challenge! I've tried clicking various keys and clicking on the mouse but I still have not successfully drawn a simple line segment. Your videos are amazing, though!
I have been binge watching your videos. I was using another free embroidery software but am going to try this just because of your videos. One question. Can you explain how to get the Toolbar edited that is on the right side of your screen. I have some there but how do I duplicate what you have. Also what does it mean the ones that are highlighted in color in the Toolbar?
I'm really happy to come across your valuable tutorials. As instructive as helpful. Great pedagogy for a niche in a niche. Thank you Sir, you earn a new subscriber!
Hello, I have been learning extensively from your videos and appreciate you taking your time with the information and instruction. I noticed something with the latest version of InkStich when you create an object with a solid stroke, the render now produces a straight line stitch instead of the fill line. I don't know if this is because of the update to the new version, but I wanted to mention this for future updates if you are planning them to this basic series.
Yes. You'll be drawing in inkscape and any drawing tablets that work on your PC will work in inkscape. you'll then use the inkstitch plugin for the digitizing of that drawing.
Just starting out with inkstitch, but I can't change my line to a dotted line. With my layer selected (the line that needs to become a dotted line), I can't click open the dropdown menu of the dashes.. any idea why that might be?
How did you create the line? The bezier tool and the line tool will make a simple line that can be converted to a satin stitch, or a running stitch changing it to a dotted line. A line that looks like a line but is actually a fill stitch line will not work, usually that's from a trace bitmap.
When setting hoop size in Inkstitch, would it be wise for me to choose the actual maximum size my machine sews (I'll have to check the manual, but likely 3.94x3.94) instead of the size 4x4 that the hoop is commonly referred to? I noticed that you mentioned millimeters can be used. I will use whichever my machine manual refers to. When working in Inkstitch, do most people use their computer mouse? I ran across an ad for a new product called Design Doodler. I am totally inexperienced, but it appears to me that the main difference with that program is that it seems to be intended to be used with a drawing tablet, which is advertised to make the process go much faster. The ads do say that the resulting designs in Design Doodler will not be as professional as digitized designs. I'd be interested in thoughts from people who have seen the ads and who have also used Inkstitch. Thank you so much for your clear instructions! I'm watching tonight while canning applesauce and cleaning up, but am really excited to try creating designs in Inkstitch.
I usually set my design template size to just a little less than my hoop size. I usually design for a 110mm but set the size in inkscape at 100mm. If you set the same size then have to adjust something up (like pull comp for example) you'll end up out of range. Set a little smaller and you'll have room to move. I design almost everything with mouse, but I do have a waccom pen tablet that I really don't use. If I were to practice with it more maybe I'd like it more, idk.
hi. I found your video really helpfull, but i have a JANOME Craft 550 and don t go more away as the file in SVG. I see a lot of another video using a second software to build a file for Brother machine or Bernina machine ... so well my question to you is: When you have convert a picture JPEG in SVG, do you know how to change in JEF ??? Thanks in Forwards for your answer
From your top menu select file > save as and save with the extension .jef If your work is called logo.svg, just use 'save as' and change the .SVG part to .JEF
The explanations of Errors in trouble shooting and why they occur was excellent. More of this please!. Can I put a border on a font? Would I need to do that as a font, then border it like it was an applique? Have you had any trouble saving a file for a different machine as a .pes file for your Brother machine?
Thank you Yes, if you're doing a fill stitch font you can improve it's overall effect greatly by doing a border. Make your font, set it to fill, no border. Duplicate it and set it to no fill, border. I started out saving as pes for our brother machines. Now that we also have a ricoma, which can only use dst, I now save only as dst since both machines can use dst. Keep in mind dst won't show proper colors on the embroidery machine display. I plan on doing a video of showing some differences between the different extensions that you can save using ink stitch.
I just downloaded Inkscape and ink stitch. Then was able to import an svg file. But when i clicked Simulator/ Realistic Preview i got an error message: “inkscape has received additinal data from the script executed….” What am i doing wrong?
Sometimes SVG files not made for inkstitch cause errors. Try each object one at a time in params and figure out which objects are not inkstitch friendly
Hey i have a logo ive download into jpeg from the 🎨 art program thats on my laptop can i put that into inkstitch and make into a PES file for the brother machines??
I love your videos!!! You've made the most concise, easy to follow, and useful Inskscape/Inkstitch tutorials and I'm super excited now I can make custom embroidery files out of my digital drawings. I have a question though, when I make a custom patch there's exposed fabric/unfilled 'gaps' in between where certain colors/segments/pieces are supposed to connect (I wish I could just show a picture but I don't think I can)- and I was wondering is there was a way to fill in these gaps? For instance, I'm making a patch of an orange creature with black eyes and a black satin stitch outline on yellow fabric and while the simulator preview on Inkscape would show the black and orange fitting perfectly together, as soon as I stitch it out on my Brother embroidery machine there would small spaces of exposed yellow fabric around the eyes or between the body and outline. At first I thought it was the tension or the fabric but even when I used different fabrics/tensions the issue was consistent. Then I thought this was just what Inkstich does to the .pes files (it's free after all, so who am I to complain?) but then I have some custom, intricate, patches with no gaps- all the colors fit together perfectly! Even though I make these .pes files exactly the same way as the files that had 'gaps'! Thanks so much for the help you've given and while I don't think this issue has to do with Params I'd love to see this series continue.
Thank you for the kind words ☺️. Can you send a picture of the stitch out to me at dale@lowtechlinux.com? Without seeing the image I'm guessing you have underneath objects peaking through where there's a sharp turn in you overlay stitching? It may be as simple as increasing the overlay object density in params (lowering the zig-zag spacing between rows).
@@LowTechLinux Yes! Certainly! I just sent over an email with all the information on the afflicted patches (along with some normal ones). Thanks so much!!!
shouldn't be, you want a little overlap since push/pull effect. Also different fabric will have different push pull effect amount, stretchy thin fabric is the worst.
Hello again when I lost im come here , so hone using the lettering tool I get a message that says "please select a name or preset first" I never seen that before and im also using the latest version , thanks again
I have a question and if anybody might know it would be you , when stitching is there a reason why sometimes it looks like.theres a certain area where it looks like there's a threads worth go =f gap , hope that makes sense, thanks again as always
@@LowTechLinux Im sorry TYPO , sometimes when stitching there will be a gap in between stitches , but not a large gap but looks like one line os stitching
Gotcha.... Most.of the time change stitch angle in params to 90 degrees will fix it. I'mma bout to explain that one in a video. I recently did a digitize that got bit by the missing ones stitch.
I love what you've done! Thank you so much! I'm a long term Inkscape user but just started getting into machine embroidery. I really appreciate your work. Have a cup of coffee on me. Thanks!
