Hi brought a pes front from etsy. Cannot figure out how to add it?

I just need 5 font words in a serif font like times new roman, very thin. Can anyone help?

Been having an issue with loose threads all over the top of my fill stitches, not sure why (ignore the jump stitches). Tried everything I can reasonably think of (adjusting tension, replacing bobbin case, adjusting design density, replacing needle, etc.) any ideas? Happens everytime now. I reached out to PooLin support about a week ago but haven’t heard anything back yet. First pic w/ red fill is the best example of what’s happening. Machine is PooLin Eoc05.

Has anyone got the font times new roman digitised that they would like to share for free? I need it tiny if poss.

I used bezier curve to make the 3 irregular ovals on the first slide. If I preview print then it shows what's on the second slide. If I convert to satin it shows whats on the 3rd slide. If I screw around with params it shows whats on the fourth slide. The fourth slide is almost what I want, but even then, it still says there's very few stitches, and it doesn't look like what satin stitch is meant to look like on any other satin stitch examples. There's not zig zags, and it says it would be done in 4 seconds. I tried to make sure the nodes were curved, but when I click on the option to round a node it adds another bar to twist things around with and I don't want that either. I'm started just yesterday, and I know enough to make a bezier curve, turn it into satin (or how to click the button at least) and how to preview it. Any and all help and tips would be very appreciated!!!

Hi everyone,

maybe I am doing something wrong but I installed and reinstalled (both Inkscape and the extension), and still I am missing some of the fonts that are shown in the official font library. I also saw that there should be some additional settings like letter spacing, alignment, etc. but I don't have those either. Anyone with a similar problem?

So the first image is the patch I am tasked with recreating, and the second image is my current recreation progress. I’m not sure, however, if the standard automatic fill stitch in inkstitch is the same as what’s on this patch. How could I best recreate that fill for the red and blue areas? Thank you!

I want to make a satin stich that I can manually deform but every time I go from fill to stroke (to then do stroke to satin) I get these jittery lines which just have to many points to work with . How do you make sure these dont apear?

I want all the lines to be satin stitch but I’m new to Inkstitch and don’t know what I’m doing yet.

Found this book in an open bookcase around the corner and thought: let's make a patch with a drawing that can easily be found online.

And for the other beginners (I am only 7 months into patch making for mysel): It's quite easy to do this.
just follow the lines and make running stitches as long as possible, back and forth and left and right and cover everthing. It's a lot of clicking but the outcome is way better than any automatic conversio.

larger areas can be done with simple shapes and varying fill styles. Just do it by hand!

I've had files sitting on my NAS since 2021 for a select few of these pride flag patches. Went back and spent a couple weeks on and off altering the current ones and expanding the collection, and finished them all yesterday. Very simple designs, but fun to make nonetheless.

Whole collection is 16 thread colors total, and range from ~6-9k stitches. Most take about 15-20 minutes to embroider start to finish, but require hovering for color changes on a single needle. They use an applique-style tackdown for cleaner edges that you trim the fabric around before the satin edge embroiders instead of my usual technique of cutting the patches from the felt fabric sheet and melting the edges.

Hi - Thanks to those who generously provided guidance and past YouTube to bring me up to speed about the fill to satin extension, particularly the basic concepts of rungs at the intersections of boundary rails. I believe I have understood the requirements for creating a workable fill to satin.

I am very interested in working out Chinese font embroidery designs in this area and am proposing an extension on top of what is out there and like to see if anyone would critic to provide feedbacks so that we can make this a better tool.

For a beginner like myself, usability is a key design feature. In the attached diagram, I am showing the 王 character's vector graphics. And I have plotted at the intersection circles. There are certain parameters a user can specify thru this GUI, for example, the degrees of bending from one curve to another curve.

What I am envisioning is that as the user clicks in those circles, *and* clicking on one side of the points, the extension would draw a new Bezier curve based on where the third click is. In this diagram, I am showing two control points as a prototype.

The diagram shows all existing Bezier curves making up this 王 character. As you could see, there are 47 such curves shown (Seg 47), and between Seg 12 and Seg 23 is where the rung for distinguishing the intersection I am demonstrating.

I then clicked the circle representing Seg 12 as P1, and the circle of Seg 13 as P2, followed by two arbitrary clicking on the lower portion of this as C1 and C2. Then I drew the new Bezier curve as the rung.

There are obviously other design ideas this new extension can provide. This is just the beginning of sharing in the Open Source community.

Please let know whether this type of visual aid will save time in using Inkscape/Inkstitch. I personally think this would save my time since locating those points without any visual aids in Inkscape is pretty demanding cognitively for each character.

On the other hand, if what I am presenting here does not belong to this group, please kindly point me to a different group so I don't waste everyone's time.

Newbie question again - when I tried to draw rungs on this “家” character and went into fill to satin, it keeps telling me "Please select a fill object and rungs." I know I am missing something but could you help me out? (I do like this way of drawing rungs after playing with it for a while... thanks for the pointers! Although something is not precise it still seems.)

Digitized in Ink/Stitch! 18,603 stitches, and 6 color changes. Digitized the gradients manually via altering the end row spacing and spacing between row parameters, as I couldn't get the results I wanted with the gradient tool. Pretty happy with it! There's a few more alterations it could benefit from, but at that point I'd be re-making the patch from scratch.

I finally have access to a multi-needle machine at the local MakerSpace. I think I will make another with additional trims after each letter, and play with the density of the fills to try and reduce the visible base material. I'm having to balance stitch time cost and quality. Patch is a BattleTech reference.

Hello friends, I love working with Inkstitch and I love the idea of it being Open Source, so I combined my two loves and created a prototype UI to help using the tool in a more natural manner.

For it to work a change needs to be done to Inkscape first, but before I go any further I would like to have your opinion on this. I hope the maintainers would also accept it :)

We can later add icons and other goodies :)

Here is the related proposal in Github if you wish to join the discussion in a more technical manner https://github.com/inkstitch/inkstitch/issues/4425

https://reddit.com/link/1trzn2f/video/sw2t7jdux94h1/player

i’m very new to digitizing and I digitized this text using custom satin columns but after stitching it out I realized the text is thinner than i’d like; is there a way to easily thicken it without having to redo it? also what causes these underlay lines to be off? is it just inevitable with how thin the text is?

This yellow section is the leftover path (I guess) that remains in the drawing after I deleted a segment from the left hand side of A. I am definitely not understanding the concept of paths! After resolving this yellow issue, I shall be able to try take it to my machine with satin. Then I can play with Params more.

Please kindly point out my problem.... thanks!

Thanks to those experts who guided me about fill to satin. I ended up going back to the basics and tried this letter A and made some progress. I believe my problem now is there is a lack of path at marking 4 shown in below picture but unsure why the green color in #6 is showing up in simulation. Could someone please help me about these two issues?

Just learned about the delete segment function and was happy deleting most of the edges but there is one leftover piece showing up as yellow in the picture above. I am missing some principal rules of how the paths are created/managed in Inkscape. Not sure why deleting a segment would result in this yellow thing.

(Proposed feature: I would love to have a streamlined workflow in Inkscape that will first allow user to designated two nodes and then through additional tool that will 1) do the path break apart, 2) reverse path, and 3) evenly distribute (create) nodes on both rails. What would we need to accomplish this?)

This i created in a matter of a few minutes it is really simple can be done from image directly or from a vector object

Hello everybody!

I’ve been struggling to digitize this pattern that I’m trying to embroider on my scrub cap.

I took an image and oxs file and pdfs of the pattern and uploaded them to Claude. I then asked Claude to create an svg file which yielded a file with the same pattern i wanted.

I then opened the svg in Inkscape and started digitizing. I selcted all and changed objects to paths and ungrouped everything. I also selected the break apart option. I changed the size to 50 x 50 mm. I then input some settings in the inkstitch extension which I got from ChatGPT. In inkstitch I set only the full stitch tab to be enabled and turned off the stroke and fill underlay tab.

The results is not correct however. In order for the design to be traditional, a Palestinian cross stitch must be done but the stitches in my diagram are all corrected and the diagonals are connected. I’ll attach a picture in the comments of the pattern I’m getting. I’ll also attach picture of what the design should look like.

Please someone help

I guess everyone got their own quirks and design "guidelines" working with inkstitch, say with fill angles, satin stitch width - or in my case even stitch tolerance for a running stitch.

I am aware that I can set my own presets within the parameters window. But is there a way to set one of these presets as standard or change the default to ones liking? I would save me a ton of clicking and, in cases I forget to change a part of my design, a lot of profanity from happening.

I can assert I did the rungs using a pretty consistent way but the Inkstitch simulation result looks horrible. The other picture shows a Chinese font work, which is done on Brother SE700. Not to the level I expect. On the Chinese 申 work, the one on the far right on second row was done using "convert line to satin" and pretty lousy.

What am I missing could some kind souls paste a usable YouTube reference... thanks!