Inkscape & Ink/Stitch Tutorial Part 3: More Trace Bitmap & Params Troubleshooting🧵
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- Welcome to the third video of our Inkscape & Ink/Stitch Tutorials, we share some more details on what we have learned when using Trace Bitmap(auto trace) and some problem solving in Params using the free and open source software to create custom machine embroidery digitized designs. If you missed our How to Use Inkscape and Ink/Stitch Tutorial that ran you through the basics (downloading/installing to embroidering) or Tutorial 2 be sure to check out those videos. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button to catch our latest uploads! As always please comment down below if you have some tips and tricks to share and we can do a video to help others, or if you have any future video ideas to help the machine embroidery community…thanks for watching!
🎬Be sure to check out our other machine embroidery projects using our Brother SE1900!
Project Anonymous Machine Embroidery Playlist:
• Embroidery Machine
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Inkscape Open Source Vector Graphics Editor Link:
inkscape.org
Ink/Stitch Extension for designing machine embroidery patterns:
inkstitch.org
Music:
Find Me Here - Patrick Patrikios
Gloss On The Floor - NoMBe
Intentions - Anno Domini Beats
Sunny Days - Anno Domini Beats
Caribbean Hide & Seek - Carmen María and Edu Espinal
0:00 Intro
0:30 Trace Bitmap Black and White Image
3:10 Nodes
5:00 Break Apart and Levels
8:05 Exclusion
11:00 Fill Layer Background
13:25 Satin Stitch Layer
14:00 Add Wrap Text
16:50 Break Apart
19:10 Ink/Stitch Embroider
20:10 Embroidering Se1900 - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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MORE INKSTITCH tutorials please! I think Iv'e watched your videos 10 times to learn haha
Thank you so much!
So right, I have paused and peered for sure - the details are just fantastic but I do have to watch it over and over to catch it.
OMG... YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW USEFUL YOUR VIDEOS AREEEEEEE!!!! Thank you so much for all of them. Little by little I am less and less afraid to use my embroidery machine
Thank you so much for this comment! I’m so glad you find our videos helpful!
Thank you for all of these videos. As others have said, I’ve watched them a million times. I have a 5yr old daughter and she is my little sidekick too. She has a little children’s sewing machine with the plastic cover around the needle. Lol I enjoy watching you both. ❤
Thank you for watching our videos! That’s awesome, thanks for sharing 😊
Thank you so much for doing these videos. They've been a blessing on my journey in machine embroidery.
Glad you like them!
OH MY GOSH!!!! Exclusion!!! I asked a question on my last video, and you answered it on this video. Exclusion and breakapart are game changers for me! Thank you!!
I hope to start Embroidery as a hobby, when i saw the prices i fainted ! Then i saw your video, it gives me hope !
Thank you both so much for this series, I've learned so much watching you guys!
Thanks for watching our videos! So glad they could help you!
You both are incredible. You literally saved me.
Thank you! Glad we could help!
Thank you! Learned a LOT
Thanks for watching!
Thank you very much this has help me big time ☮️
Awesome, thanks for watching!
I am brand new to embroidery and also pretty new to Inkscape, but I've been watching lots of videos to figure out bits and pieces. However, your videos are the most thorough and informative of all of the other videos I've seen COMBINED! You guys are awesome!!
Thank you so much, we’re glad you found them helpful!
If you want to see exactly where your errors are in your path, you can select your image in node view and go to extensions>inkstitch>troubleshoot>troubleshoot objects.
Thanks for the tip 😊
A great tutorial but I am going to have to watch it a few times because I am too old to get stuff into my noggin lol. Thank you both and what a lovely team you make :-)
Your videos are the best! Thank you both so much !❤
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching our videos!
I really enjoy your Inkstitch videos and appreciate you walking us through the process. The fact that you point out potential blips along the way keeps my frustration level to a manageable level. Subscribed!
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this great tutorial
Thank you so much for another great Ink/Stitch video!!! You both are awesome teachers! I can't wait to try this out. Please make more Inkscape & Ink/Stitch videos. Love them!!
You're the best
EXCELLENT!
Glad you think so! Thanks for watching!
Good job!!! Great instructions.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video series! Thanks so much for creating them. I'm looking forward to seeing your other videos. Thanks!
Glad you like them!
You both are awesome!! I have learned a lot from you in my embroidery journey.! Thanks for being so helpful and clear in your explanations. I am your fan!
Thank you so much!
I'm new to Ink/Stitch and embroidery in general. I've been using PE Design which is helpful but I've found lacks the creative benefit of a program like Inkscape. Two things have me stuck when it comes to Ink/Stitch. The first is that, on the original design I was working with (which was a spiderman design just for the sake of description), when I did a fill to make the black areas (netting) black, none of it stitched out. The strokes would stitch, and I made sure that fill was selected as black as well. I even changed the color to green to make sure it filled it in on screen, but the same thing happened where it refused to fully fill the image. I ended up doing all I could in Ink/Stitch, then throwing it back into PE Design and finishing it up a bit in there. It came out a lot rougher than most of my usual designs.
The second thing that I've been dealing with is if I do a layer over the fill layer, meant to be the outline of a design, it's doing a fill stitch as opposed to a zigzag or a satin. Both the spiderman and this new design I've tinkered with started from image files I used trace bitmap on and not ones I worked myself. Any suggestions for how to fix this? I feel like there's a glaringly obvious answer but as I'm a PE Design user and only have done ink stitch twice, it's not coming to me. Thanks for your help (and anybody who reads this!)
Thank you so much for this tutorial. You teach so many important things. Great work.
Thank you!
Your videos are so good. The detailed steps are very easy to follow. The error messages were confusing to me but now make senses. Thank you to both of you 🙏
Thank you for your comment!
Dope Duo... These videos helped out a lot. Thank You!
Thanks for watching!
Your videos has been super usefull for me, i have a brother embroider too, it's a little one (nv960dl) , but it's compatible with all your tutorials so far. Thanks
Thank you for your comment! So glad these tutorials could help you!
i can't say thanks enough for your videos on inkstitch!!!! i had come across it a couple months ago, read up and installed everything, but wasn't at all sure what to do next and really needed to figure out how to get SVGs into PES format -- spent all afternoon&evening today rewatching your videos and going thru the steps with jpeg/bmp images i grabbed off the internet and as of 20 minutes ago finished stitching up my first digitized pattern on my brother SE -- lots of little lessons learned in the process too 😂 -- you are both just GREAT and really do a nice job covering how to do this, agree that i have to rewatch several times but that's ok -- thank you so much!!! I'm several steps closer now to my EtsyLife dream!! 💕
Thank you so much! We are so glad we could help!
In looove with how practical these are!
I'm currently trying to make old arcade logos into a pes file and i still can't understand how to NOT do them all by myself!
The more I use trace bitmap the more I run into problems, like errors or too many stich count
I am trying everything I can and loving it so far!!! Thanks again!
Thanks for watching! We find using trace bitmap can be cumbersome as well. We’ve found using break apart fill objects a helpful tool, but sometimes it’s honestly just easier to manually trace images (depending on the complexity).
Cool tutorial, just what I needed to get me up to speed. You may want to take a look at the objects pop up to be able to see which part number is giving you errors for stitching. (saves simplifying things that don't need it)
Thank you so much! We’ll have to look into that, we didn’t realize there was a way to track the path that is having issues!
Thanks for the tutorials! How accurate would you say the InkStitch "Simulator/Visualize" function is with the 'realistic' box checked?
Thanks for watching! We've found the Simulator/Visualize function surprisingly accurate when we limit our designs to 3 layers, anything over that and our machine begins to tear threads, and the outcome isn't as nice as the visualizer shows.
@@ProjectAnonymous_Duo interesting! Thanks for the reply :) I also had one more question.. I had to "break apart" some objects that were letters and the letter 'O' on my design is filled with the primary color. How do I get the fill on the 'O' to go back to transparent? Thanks again :)
If you select the "outside" of the "O" and the "inside" of the "O" at the same time, then go to Path>Exclusion, it will get rid of that fill. The same thing works with other letters with "holes" in them. Hope this helps!
These videos are so helpful! I have a question about exclusions/levels... Is there a trick to knowing when to exclude and when to layer on top? For example, the white background circle covered the whole area, with the woman stitched on top it, and then the red letters stitched on top of that, so you now have 3 layers on top of one another... Intuitively it kind of makes sense that you would do it that way, but I'm trying to work with more complicated images with lots of different parts, and am struggling to know when to exclude, and when to just layer on top. Hope my question makes sense?
Hello there, your question makes perfect sense, yes we limit our stacked embroidery to 3 layers max, otherwise we see some issues with our machine. This took some trial and error, but we have found 3 to be our max… When we do more complicated designs we do have to think about this and will use exclusions to keep to 3 layers. Hope this helps.
Please do a tutorial on getting only the outlines of an image including eyes nose n a few details with any fill layer
Thanks for the video idea!
i meant *without a fill layer only outlines of an image
with the sharpie I believe if you iron it it fixes the colour so it does not wash out as easy
I think there is an easier way to 'flatten' the image. after you break it apart, everything should be selected so you should be able to just go path>exclusion.
if you want to select just the black parts, right click on a black object and select select same>fill colour (or stroke colour) and it will select everything that has that fill (or stroke) colour
Thank you for the tips. We’ve found (at least with this design) that going straight to an exclusion from a break apart just reverts the image to a single path (vs independent nose and mouth). Which doesn’t solve our params issue. In a simpler design, with just holes in a path (no independent unconnected paths), your suggestion does work well. Thanks again for watching and commenting!
What I do for badges is stop the machine before the satin border and then appliqué the patch onto some tear out stabilizer. It adds a little bit of stiffness and punches out clean without having to worry about cutting threads trying to get to close and there’s no fabric pieces coming through your border.
Thank you for the tip!
Thank you soooo much I was going to soend hundreds on a digitizing software or you still recommend the investment? If so which software should I buy??
Tough to say, we have not needed any features that Inkstitch doesn’t provide, or we haven’t found a workaround for, but it is a time investment to learn. Where from our understanding, paid software may be easier to use initially (or maybe more intuitive). Having not purchased any embroidery software ourselves, we can’t give you a recommendation, but if we were going to buy software, we’d probably get the brother PE Design, just because we have the brother machine and we’d want to get everything out of it as possible.
Thank you for taking the time to record this video. It is very good to understand how objects need to be prepared to be embroidered with Ink/Stitch. I just wanted to point you to an Ink/Stitch feature which could help you to speed up your process quiet a bit. After tracing your image, just run a function found under Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Fill Tools > Break apart fill objects... Read the Ink/Stitch documentation for more info: inkstitch.org/docs/fill-tools/ This feature will improve just a little in the upcoming version (which will be out there soon). In the current version you have to make sure to set the fill rule to "evenodd" in the fill and stroke dialog.
Thank you so much for the tip! We just found out about that feature a few days after recording this video... We will have to do an amendment video soon. Thanks for watching!
how would you go about making something like this image satin stitch instead of all fill? any way to trick ink stitch into thinking the bulk of it would be "simple lines"?
Unfortunately not, with images such as this, with detailed objects, it would involve adjusting every piece, and creating the "railroad track," to get good results.
also Silhoueet - Image Maker is not avalible for android , have you recomended one for this? ty
Sorry, we don’t have any android devices. Thanks for watching!
The “embroider” button never works for me. It always says “create a stitch file” & tells me to save a copy of it. When I do that & select PES it saves as a text document. Any info on this? Thanks! Love your videos.
We aren't sure what that issue could be. Just make sure that you are using the appropriate file for your machine. This is an older video and the way to save files has changed a bit. If you check out some of our newer videos and follow how we save files now that could be of some help to you. Here is the link to the video where we discuss the new PES export: th-cam.com/video/XhdulUDXqQo/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Hi! I really need your help. I've followed your instructions on the text/font but whenever my machine (also SE1900, brand new) embroiders the text it's all messed up (threads getting stuck, stitches are looping, etc.). I don't have this issue when using the lettering function and the satin stitch comes out perfect. I think this is an issue with the fill stitch.. Can you please help?
We have found there is a limit to how small your text can be and get good results. Some tips that were given to us by other commenters: make sure you slow your machine down, and perhaps change to a smaller diameter needle. Hope this helps!
these tutorials are so helpful!! i'm sadly still getting the "cross borders" error... But when I check all the individual parts of the image i'm trying to embroider, the params check stitches it out without a problem, so I'm not sure why it's not letting me do the whole image :(
Hello! We’ve come across issues like this where we will check every individual path but it still won’t work... in our case it always turns out that there is some remnant of an edge caused by the trace bitmap. What we’ve recently began doing is selecting all our desired embroidery paths and move them off the work space somewhere, then highlight the entire workspace (which should be empty), if anything shows up in there, we delete it, then move our design back. Worth a shot at least. Hope this helps, thanks for watching!
@@ProjectAnonymous_Duo thank you!!! That solved it!!🥰 so happy!
you should do one on text because im having the HARDEST time getting my se-400 to display any of my designs
Thanks for watching and the suggestion! We have some text projects coming soon!
Is there a silhouette app for android phones that gives the same results?
Sorry we don't have an Android phone to help answer that question. Thanks for watching.
Hi i am having issues with doing any design really on inkstitch. I can use any of the lettering fonts that are pre-programmed into inkstitch with no problem and my embroidery turns out great, however, when I try to create my own design, a ton of bobbin thread shows through the design, especially on fill stitches. I've tried adjusting the bobbin tension and rethreading the upper thread with no luck and I've followed many of your videos to a T and am still seeing poor results. any tips? (also i have a Brother PE770)
Sorry to hear that, and your problem does sound perplexing as you are getting good results some of the time... How old is your machine? Has it been serviced? (Your instruction manual should show how). Have you tried adjusting (lowering) your upper thread tension? I would try embroidering a small test circle with a stroke (satin stitch border) and see if the issue is appearing on only the fill stitch... This will confirm if your issue is just with fill stitches. From that you could try adjusting (lowering) upper thread tension, or increasing bobbin thread tension, until you see a good result on the fill stitch. Hope this helps!
Not sure how old the machine is or how long ago it was serviced as I bought it used and have only had it a few weeks. I can get it to stitch everything perfectly except for fill stitches that I upload from inkstitch. I have rethreaded the upper string many times but should I try decreasing the tension for the upper thread on the machine? It’s at 0 right now.
I think a combination of cleaning out your machine (your manual can be downloaded here: support.brother.com/g/b/manualtop.aspx?c=as_ot&lang=en&prod=hf_pe770eas) pg 70), tightening your bobbin tension and/or loosening your upper thread tension will solve your problem. The issue really isn't inkstitch, as that just controls where the stitches happen, not the parameters of tension, I'd imagine you'd see similar results with any embroidery software utilizing a fill stitch.
I’m kinda late to the game and you probably already figured it out… but if you go to the fill and stroke menu and hit the little heart shape with the white part in the middle, before breaking apart, you will save yourself a lot of time. What it will do is just breaking apart your filled areas and the rest are just holes.
Thank you for the tip! We’ll have to check that out!
my inkstitch does work. It says cannot execute binary file??
im getting a shape not valid error even though I don't have any borders overlapping any ideas why?
Have you converted the object to a path? (Path>Object to Path).
Hey, why theres gapping in my design when i embroider? When i look at params & simulator it shows perfectly fine. But when i embroider it gives me gaps, can you help?
You can try increasing the density of stitches in your design in params, or slightly change the angle of stitch... This happens to us occasionally where on a large object, it will start embroidering from the top half to the middle, then start on the lower half to the middle, and sometimes not met perfectly in the middle... We usually will just slightly modify the params, and it has helped us.
@@ProjectAnonymous_Duo yeah it works! Maybe you should make a video about that too. Do more of troubleshooting for beginners.
I really need help:
Splitting my embroidery image horizontally / vertically so it will fit into my 4x4 hoop because the machine does not support a 5x7 hoop.
I have so many PES patterns and I cannot use any of them without splitting them, but I have no idea how :(
Please help
I don't think you can modify any PES files you have directly, it needs to be SVG format to modify. PES files are basically instructions for your machine to move in X and Y axis and when/where to stitch (machine code).
Hello, i have trouble with my Trim commands, it seems like my Brother pr620 does not read them, please help :D
Hello there, I'm sorry can you give us a little more detail? Not sure we understand your issue.
So I’m running into a problem where it’s not allowing me to delete the unnecessary nodes, what should I do?
That’s interesting, we’ve never come across that. When you select a single node, can you remove it with the “delete node” button in the upper left corner?
@@ProjectAnonymous_Duo I have not tried that yet but I will when I get the chance, will keep you updated
@@ProjectAnonymous_Duo I solved the issue I just needed to break apart the object more
Hi I am having issues with converting it to a PES everytime I try it says "Ink/Stitch doesn't know how to work with any of the objects you've selected.
Tip: Select some objects and use Path -> Object to Path to convert them to paths."
When I try their tip and do it again, it still says the same thing.
same i need help
Something new we learned from a comment, that may help you is: Extensions>Inkstitch>Fill tools>Break Apart fill objects... We plan on covering this feature in a future video, but it seems to work for us every time we get a params error... you may just need to do some clean up (layering) afterward depending on your design.
MINE NOT WORKING AND I do all setting good can you pls help why I have this /Users/evahall/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions/inkstitch/bin/inkstitch: /Users/evahall/Library/Application Support/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions/inkstitch/bin/inkstitch: cannot execute binary file
when I click on PARAMS something no right and is not working for me I have MacBook Pro
I can't say for sure what is going wrong for you. I'd suggest posting the issue on the Ink/stitch Github site: github.com/inkstitch/inkstitch/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Abug Hope the community can help you!
Я бы сделал по другому!! Что бы швейная машинка не шила стижки по заливке! Возможно это приведет к слишком толстой вышивки.