OUTSTANDING Tutorial! I'm just getting into embroidery and have been using Inkscape / Inkstich. Banged my head against the wall for more than several hours trying to figure out how to do fill area satin stiches. This was perfect. TY for taking the time to shed some light on what I thought wasn't the most intuitive process. You made it look pretty simple.
Thanks Dale, another great video. I love how you show how sometimes things just don't work out, but then show how you go about fixing it. I'm going to give this a shot on my project and let you know.
My girlfriend bought a embroidery machine one month ago and with your videos now i can make all the designs she wants, she's super happy that i help her and with your videos it's much easier than using the machine manufacterer software, it was so user unfriendly. Greetings from Argentina
Awesome. Glad to hear I helped. That is similar to my story. Happy stitchings to you both. Just out of curiosity, might I ask what the embroidery machine she got is? 👍😁❤️
Thank you so much for the explanation I don't know why it never occurred to me that I could just use both edges of the shape as the rails of a satin stitch
Thank you so much for these incredible and informative videos. I can't believe that I spent so long fiddling around with InkStitch and then there's a video for every single specific question I had, right here on your channel, answered so clearly and perfectly. I really appreciate your work!
Thank you so much for this video! Amazing work. One tip I would recommend if you're working with symmetrical projects like this is to do one of each object, duplicate it, then click on it with the selector tool, click again, and then move and rotate the object. Place the duplicated object over the next object (lower opacity to ensure a clean match-up), and rinse and repeat! It'll save a lot since you don't have to manually do each part of a symmetrical project.
25:27 you might not have to do all the break apart. once you have the outlines and have split the nodes (22:10), if you select the single object (two lines) and then go path>reverse it seems to reverse only one. if you need them to stitch in the other direction then inkstitch>tools:satin>flip satin rails should then start stitching from the other end. like a lot of things it does not always work but seems to work better if the end/beginning nodes of the rails are not too close together
14:51 Wouldn’t it be easier, to duplicate one path and scale it, so that it’s in the middle of the two outer lines, select a thick stroke width, and let Inkstitch do the rest? By converting just this new thick path into a satin column? Didn’t try it, just an idea :)
Honestly I need to update most of them. The buttons and names can be different but the overall functions are still the same. When doing trace bitmap it's kinda hit or miss. Depends on your original image mostly.
Thanks. I'm practicing with svg file for the Ford logo. The F o r d letters are already svg'ed, but are very curvy, like your last example images. Perhaps if you have a video showing an already formatted svg graphic with curved lettering, how one would Satin Stitch format the letters. Thanks, I'll keep chugging along as a beginner. Status: Beginner Time working with Embroidery process - 3 months, when time permis. System: Brother SE 2000 Projects/patches made: 10
Thank you. Not yet but I am intrigued by it and have been looking into it. I'll try to do something tutorialish (I think I like that word, lol) in the next couple of weeks.
Hi there, over the last month I have learned sooo much from you, Thank you. One thing is making me crazy there is a gap between my outline and fill colour that only shows up when embroidered, can you fix this problem? forever greatful.
I have to go back and watch the video on cleaning up Object Paths. Making satin stitch patterns of Trace Bitmap images is exactly on thing I am trying to do, but the image often have lines crossing over one another and it takes hours to unscramble something like a Celtic Knot image to make a stitch path.
How would I do this with something with sharp points. I would like to make a dragon ball z saiyan symbol but with a satin stitch. The fill stitch was bumpy
I did a quick Google search for Saiyan symbol and it looks very similar to the Arabic symbol I did recently. You might have better luck doing it that way. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LMQiR6dSRAw.html
Hello. I enjoy your videos. Trying to use them to convert my praying hands svg into a devent embroidery file using inkstitch. Failing epically. Please help.
Could you please make a video explaining how to make the DC logo full with satin stitches? im trying and it's impossible it says "Satin column: A rung intersects a rail more than once. Each rung should intersect both rails once."
Usually that means your image isn't contrasting enough for inkscape to see what's going on, or it's just too complicated for it to map it out. Sometimes you can just load it into an image editor and darken the darks, whiten the whites, and make sure there's not any color gradients in it.
I've seen other programs turn fill to satin, any idea how to do that on inkstitch? IS keeps saying can only convert simple lines to satin. Unfortunately, the other apps are not free.
Inkstitch requires a bit more effort, but is free. There's a bit of a learning curve as well. In the end I can do more in inkstitch than the paid versions are able to do. There is no 'fill to satin' button and mostly needs to be done manually.
hey dale I'm having problems making my satin stroke bigger. When I check the prams it make my column 10mm no matter what I set the stoke width to. need help.
If you're converting a line to satin with inkstitch line to satin tool, set your width before you convert it. Otherwise you can change a satin line to simple line, set width, then convert to satin Try that and see if it helps
@@LowTechLinux nope. So just to make sure I was tripping I started a new project made a box no fill set the stroke to 12mm then line to satin tool checked the prams and at the bottom left corner of the preview it change it to 8 mm so when i try to stitch it out its giving me a skinny line instead of a wide one. I'm missing something is it a maximum on the satin ?
Hmmm. Interesting. I really don't have any idea here. Send the simple box SVG to me if you would do I can check what your inkstitch did with it. dale@lowtechlinux.com I will have a look this evening after work and some mom time.
How are you getting this to work? My inkstitch won't save what I've done and in the last video you said there is an error that keeps it from working so you will do the digitizing for folks. Now it's working? Would love to use inkstitch but don't want to waste time learning if it doesn't save it.
Save your work as an SVG. Then select file > save as and change the SVG extension to whatever your embroidery machine needs, i.e. .dst or .pes, etc. If it won't save as an embroidery file there's probably an issue with the design, run Extensions > inkstitch > troubleshoot > troubleshoot objects.
Your videos are always helpful to me! Thank you so much for real. I also wonder if you can help me through zoom or discord with something I tried fixing. I've done the same thing you did but still I don't get what I did wrong :(. If you could help me I'd be really grateful.
This is the error message that appears to me: error: A satin column consists out of two rails and one or more rungs. This satin column may have a different setup.
I have been following step by step and when I go to params to see how it will stitch, It fills in the whole object rather than just satin stitching the outline. Please help!
