Lol. My mom has said that too 😁🤣. Thank you 😊

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sometimes manually gives you a better result and people should know how to do it

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.

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

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.

It's necessary if you don't want to have jump stitches to cut after the project is done. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5loeq5ozrjZYJ8.html

That's a really hard one. Maybe separate the sections by words. Hoop... Stitch word Rehoop... Stitch word Rehoop... Stitch image. That's a tough one.

@@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.

🤣🤣😂😂 Glad I could help. 😂🤣

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'm not sure, I think this one was 2.1.0. what operating system are you on and what version of inkscape do you have?

Hold shift when you select the color. You want to set stroke color instead of fill color. Should fix you right up, let me know if that doesn't work.

@@LowTechLinux It works.. Tanks :)

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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. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5loeq5ozrjZYJ8.html

Use the nodes tool to select only one of the rails, then do path > reverse. Should fix you right up kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pZtmh9ZzkpPSoZc.html

Awesome that was easy! Thanks so much for your time! Have learned so much from your awesome videos!

Absolutely outstanding, glad it worked for you 👍👍

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.

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

@@LowTechLinux ok thank u so much

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.

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

The font you mentioned, I think would be better served by doing the satin by setting the rails manually.

Perfect! I will pick some info about it then!!

Have a look at this one, it should get you heading in the right direction kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gqyUhNh5tZvIgo0.html

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.

@@LowTechLinux thank you for your answers. But I still have this error using bezier tool... :(

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.

@@LowTechLinux thanks because I'm struggling with small satin stitching

I'm working on a video for better small satin results. Probably this weekend.

Cool,I'll be looking forward to that

Took a little longer than I wanted, but here you go... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gttnfqiJtcvUZ6M.html

Which tool are you referring to? To make the lines I used the bezier tool.

@@LowTechLinux yeah i guess I don’t have the bezier tool

@@LowTechLinux Do you know how you got it or did it come with yours?

@@LowTechLinux Nevermind i got it

@@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.

by default it's the 3rd button up on the menu on the left, just says 'measure' kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gshdnMqD0tCapYU.htmlsi=c_FegPPcAvhkc5q4&t=138

Line to satin*

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. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5loeq5ozrjZYJ8.html

@@LowTechLinux okay, understand all is a bit difficult since im italian. Where do i find the fill and stroke? In params?

Okay, found it on the other video!

@@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

Not yet, but that's a good idea

@@LowTechLinux I guess that's why rhe paid programs are like $1,000? Seems like a con to me 🤷‍♂️

They just already have a massive satin stitch font library. Inkstitch is a relatively young project and it has more satin fonts with each release.

Would also need this! Can someone recommend programs (may be paid) which allow for this?