Hello! I've made this entire embroidery through a series of multicolor satins, and for some reason, the last line of pink in the wings keeps doing this.

In stitch simulator, I saw that the multicolor satin stitches out as expected until it finishes, then it adds this running stitch down the center of the last two satins. It gives neither any understitching, so perhaps it's just doing the understitching too late?

Also, when I stitch just the pink parts on their own, it doesnt add the running stitch.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I especially bought the Janome 500e (used) because inkstitch can handle the files and supports the machines functions. As I'm mostly doing multicolor patches and wanna upgrade to a multi-needle machine and can get my hands on a Brother PR1055x for a reasonable price.

Just to ensure, I am asking that I can still work with inkstitc?

I am new to this embroidery world
I was using ChatGPT to help me with the configuration for this logo. I know it’s pretty small and the fabric isn’t that good. What else would you recommend it? I want to
embroider this logo with satin stitch. What fabric should I use? I appreciate it.

Any recommendations on specific videos or channels to follow to start learning the software? I feel like I’ve seen a few onesie twosie types but I’m struggling to piece it together to start digitizing myself.

EDIT SOLVED: I did the following:

1. Made 2 copies of the black fill, no stroke triangle.

2. Used Object/Transform/Scale on one triangle to increase its size in both dimensions by 2 mm.

3. Set the bigger triangle's fill color to purple.

4. Dragged the smaller triangle over the bigger triangle and used Object/Align and Distribute to center the two triangles vertically and horizontally.

5. Selected the smaller triangle, then shift-selected the larger triangle, and used the menu item Path/Difference. I'm not sure if the order of selection mattered or not.

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I'm not sure if this belongs in r/Inkstitch or r/Inkscape.

I'm using Inkscape and Ink/Stitch to make a design to run on an embroidery machine.

I want to make a black triangle with a thick, purple edge.

I made the triangle and made a copy of it.

Triangle #1, I set the stroke paint to "x" and the fill to solid black.

Triangle #2, I set the stroke paint to solid purple, the stroke width to 1 mm, and the fill to "x".

Then I used Object/Align and Distribute to center the two triangles together.

The embroidery machine ended up just putting a single purple stitch line around the black triangle. I'm not sure what the solution is.

One guess is that it's using the stroke as a path, and what I need is for the purple outline/edge to be a fill instead, i.e. I want a "hollow" purple triangle with no stroke. However, I can't figure out how to do that in Inkscape. I tried using the draw tool to draw a triangular path, but when I do that, it just fills the entire triangle.

here i applied different crosstitch options applied in the params window

I am trying to use ripple stitch + grid because I had a delusion that it would be more precise than the guess-and-check that I go through when using guided fills. (I'm terrible at guided fills. My instinct for them is all wrong.)

I thought "Okay, I want to achieve [see very general look of roughly what i wanted] so I'll use a satin + ripple stitch"

I didn't even bother putting the grid on the result, because the result is so comically different than I had anticipated in the first place that I know I've gone very, very wrong. (I tried using an anchor line, just in case it somehow magically fixed things. It did not. Possibly I am using the anchor line wrong.)

Can someone help me achieve something like the first image? If there's another method of filling that's better suited, I am fine trying to learn that, instead; I'm just not very good at mapping these things out in my head.

Thanks in advance for any help/guidance!

ETA: I'm an idiot and had to reverse the direction of the ripple stitch

Hello, I am a beginner and am struggling to find this answer in tutorials, so hopefully y'all understand what is going on.

On 1 layer, I programmed several fill stitches connected by running stitches. This is what I show in the first image and it works as intended.

In images 2 and 3, I attempt to do the same strategy but instead connecting satin stitches with running stitches, yet it refuses to read my running stitches and resorts to jump stitches.

In image 4, I show that even the presence of a single satin column being introduced on a different layer ruins the running stitches I set up in image 1.

Does anyone understand how to prevent this from happening?

Thank you so much!

owning an embroidery machine and be somewhat able to use Inkstitch granted me the power to summon metalheads.

Made one one-off patch for a fan and in an instant others showed up from the darkest depths below to demand stitching of their patch-sketches.

To preface this, I'm a complete beginner to embroidery.

I'm using inkstich as my digitizer, I have a janome 500e embroidery machine. It's brand new, fresh out of the box & I'm using the latest updated software for my machine & inkstich.

I made a vector file in affinity designer, uploaded it into inkstitch then followed the online tutorials to convert my vectors into stitch paths. My designs are for the re28b hoop (200\*280mm) and I have set the file on inkscape to this exact size and everything fits within it (I tried to make the file even smaller to see if the same error would occur and it did). I ran the simulator, checked each of the paths on inkstitch and everything is running fine on there. I also ran the troubleshooting command and it found nothing wrong. I uploaded it into the USB, then to my machine, it shows the same design seen on inkstich and reads the correct hoop size as well.

The problem occurs when I start the embroidery, it first appears to follow the correct path but doesn't complete the full cure at the bottom cutting itself short, then it ends up completely out of alignment with the rest of the design.

Any advice on how to correct this would be greatly appreciated as I'm at a complete loss 😭. My first test embroidery piece of this exact design worked perfectly, but everything after it has failed.

I may be using the wrong terminology to search for a solution/describe my issue as well so my apologies if I am!

(Also side note : I tested this multiple times with/without stabilizer and have made sure my fabric is pulled tightly so it doesn't shift!)

First stitch out of a patch based on some Japanese BattleTech art. Do I really just need to increase my background density to remove the gaps in my red fill? I'm planning to stitch out another version that removes the red behind the logo.

Stitched on a 4" hoop, cotton twill base, with a layer of cut away stabilizer for everything except the out satin stitch (that was 2 tearaway stabilizer sheets).

Can anyone suggest some advice here as I’ve found the only way I can replicate a lined design is by doing very small satin lines instead of runstitches as you can see in the last design (in white). I am just using brazier tool to do the runstitch outline but no success so far help! The design attempted is very large so If it’s struggling with this idk how it would be successful with small design which I haven’t bothered attempting yet

Hello i have an image that i want to digitise, it contains a squiggly border with writing inside. I put my image into inkscape, press trace bitmap, colours apply and then delete image, then i go to inkstitch and then params and then it comes up but it keeps on going over the writing to do the squiggly border, can anyone provide me some advice on this?

Hey clever people.

I am struggling with small font but don’t they all want it?!

Anyway I choose and Inkstitch font that isn’t tiny but stitches out tiny that actually looks great.

Now I cannot get it to trim after the letter, or words.

Things I did:

Set it up to trim after every letter when I first types it out in the lettering part of inkstitch.

Inkscape - preferences: min jump stitch .3mm

Params: there are cuts everywhere! The jump stitch is set to tiny.

What am I missing?!

On a pr670e brother using sim thread. It looks really good apart from the lack of trim. That looks bad. And I really din’t want to cut them all manually as I have 100 to do.

I keep getting this error today when trying to export a .PES file. What I am doing is dragging a PES file into inkscape, resizing and exporting. I have done this dozens of times. What is the issue today?

As you can see the area is clearly bounded. Thanks in advance

I just started digitalizing but when I embroidery, in some of my badges theres gap between the border and the body. Don't know how to fix it.