For those trying to learn Inkstitch, Inkstitch is absolutely powerful if you know how to use it and will teach you a lot about vectors. Hatch and other software take the learning curve out of digitizing embroidery. However, you kinda need to understand how graphics with layers work to understand how to build a good embroidery file. I don't have the $400 to $1k so Inkstitch it is. Even the smaller programs I bought years ago don't enable me to create files the way I want. Thank you for putting these tutorials out!

This is BY FAR the best Inkstitch tutorial I have watched. New to embroidery, and this helped with almost all of my frustrations! You sir are outstanding!

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding. So glad I could help. Thank you for the very kind words. Happy stitching 😊

I rarely sub, but you deserve it for these tutorials. Everyone tells me to get Hatch, but thats 1000 bucks and I'm just learning. I appreciate this and your sage guidance.

@LowTechLinux

8 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

This is literally the only good video I've watched on embroidery digitization that doesn't require thousand dollar software. Open source ftw

Love that you speak slow enough that I can follow along without having to pause to many times. Wonderful tutorial.

@LowTechLinux

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Outstanding!...My Hero!

I've almost gave up on Inkstitch, but you made my day! Thank you!!

@LowTechLinux

8 ай бұрын

Awesome 👍👍. Thank you

You are so perfectly thorough and perfectly relatable. I work in tech and genuinely think you do a far better job at explaining new concepts than most of my computer science professors ever could back in the day! Thanks for investing so much time and energy into these - makes life so much easier!

Thanks for this video. I had always thought there is going to be a lot of manual tracing job to digitize an image, so very surprised your video made everything seem to work like magic!

Thank you so much, very informative and now I keep saying, “outstanding!” Every time my machine doesn’t fail.

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

That is outstanding 😁. Thank you for sharing, I love it.

Thank you - you did an EXCELLENT job explaining this!!! :)

Video is a masterclass 👏 Very helpful and informative 👍 Thank you 😊

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words ☺️

I followed some of the basic tutorials of inkstitch but I prefer your handson approach way more! Thanks

phenomenal video, I appreciate it a lot

@LowTechLinux

2 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

So timely...I'm trying to create a file for my own home craft logo I designed years ago and thought I would embroider it on some pj pants. I've been watching your first video over and over. The best thing I learned from this video was the simplify function. I just shut down my laptop for the night when I saw all the nodes I'd have to work with...now I know I don't have to. Thank you!

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

When I saw simplify in action I was in awe at how much easier that would make trace bitmap projects.

great video! your explanations are clear, concise, and detailed enough that they are actually very helpful! Thank you!

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

Wow this is great! Just into getting embroidery and learning about designing and your videos are very thorough! I can follow along at a great pace. Thanks for sharingyour knowledge! Keep them coming.

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

Hey man, your videos have been a huge help to me in making my way through the embroidery hobby. I'm also a big proponent of Linux and the Open Source community, so I'm glad to see that the community solve another problem. Great tutorials man, keep doing what your doing!

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

This comment has made my day. Thank you

@annelisequattrociocchi6043

Жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux I wholeheartedly agree with and second the original comment made by Rolando. Thank you!

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Thank you so much for a great video. You explain things very well and made it easy to understand.

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thank you 😊

Thank you, I was going to give up on Inkstitch but you saved me

Great tutorial. I learn so much from you!

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Excellent tutorial thank you. This really explains the automatic functions and troubleshooting. I feel confident

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Thank you so much for this tutorial! Really helpful and well explained.

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Very good tutorial. Super helpful!

PERFECT..... Awesome. Thanks a lot for your help. your videos are really great.

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

Thank you for being so thorough! 😊

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thank you

I fell in love with this tutorial, I've been watching multiple of videos but non of them actually explains deeply on every steps but this video does! I've been embroidering over a year now while buying designs and finally decided to start learning how digitize some designs on my own before buying any other programs. Still kinda confused with the sizing but other than that I've learned a lot with your videos!

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thank you for sharing that with me. 🤗👍

This is the best video for me… trying it out TONIGHT

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Let me know how it goes. 👍

Thank you so much. I learn so much from you.

Thank you so much! This is the video I needed!

this was an amazing tutorial. about to get right into part 2

@LowTechLinux

3 ай бұрын

Thank you

Your videos are amazing! I haven't subscribed to someone on YT in nearly a decade, but the diligence in your videos truly earned it. Your pace, thoroughness, and foresight is phenomenal! I did have one question though...here's my situation (I've used your videos to go from step to step): so far, I've created my own design in ProCreate, exported it as a PNG, converted the PNG to an SVG, figured out the layers + troubleshooted in Inkstitch, and done the simulator/realistic preview. I am unsure of where to go from here when it comes to actually exporting the file to give to my embroidery machine (Brother SE1900). I'm still very new to this embroidery machine and I'm learning as I go, but I do know that it takes .pes, .dst , .phc, and .pen (from iBroidery) file types. Is there a way to convert the SVG file of my design to any of these file types via Inkscape? I tried to export the SVG and I don't see any of the aforementioned file types as an option. Would love any pointers you can provide me with. Thank you so much ◡̈

@LowTechLinux

6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for the compliment 😁 Always save as an SVG first. If you need to make changes after stitching out a test change the SVG and re-save as an embroidery file, over-writing the previous one. To save as a pes or dst just save as. And then rename the file.svg to file.pes or file.dst and inkstitch will do the rest. I use a thumb drive to move the file from computer to machine

@sachidesale3935

6 ай бұрын

Just tried that and it worked. Thank you for the quick help!!

Beautiful thanks for the tutorial

Thank you very much.

So helpful ! Thanks so much from Belgium

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thank you 💓 Belgium💓

Might want to mention that Simplify can and will probably change your image a little bit. I still use it though, but worth a mention. Good video though, really helpful :-)

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Good tip. Thank you

shoutz 2 u !!!!! 🙏🙏🙏

Outstanding! Your videos have been super helpful (I'm before novice in embroidery machine and Inkscpe/Inkstitch). I have a question about jump stitches: right now I don't mind trimming them because everything is so new to me, it's kinda fun to me to cut a thread here and there. But, I'm wondering if I can end up messing up the embroidery by trimming the jump stitches in front and back of the work.... As in, do I create chances of the embroidery unraveling, by trimming? I'm about to try a design I made that has several unconnected swirls... am I better off asking the machine to trim by adding command between my swirls so it secures the stitch? Thank you and thank you so much for sharing so much valuable knowledge and experience :)

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Trimming jump stitches shouldn't be an issue. Your machine should tie off at the beginning and the end of a stitch area, whether it's a straight, fill, or satin stitch. There's not much difference from you cutting with scissors and the machine cutting it for you as far as that goes. Be careful not to accidentally cut a stitch that's not a jump. On the underside it's ok to cut long hanging threads, any tie off should be close to the fabric. If you have jump stitches (on the underside) that are tight from one jump to the next I usually leave those there, just to be on the safe side.

@claudiafigueiredo7969

2 жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux Thank you so much! I've learned a lot from you and I just enjoy watching your tutorials, even when I don't have an immediate "need". Thank you :)

your voice is calming and you explain very well but I must just be an idiot. I'm stressing out but need to leave it ànd try again later. 😔

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes it's best to take a break. Come back with a clear mind and a cup of coffee (or hot chocolate works too 🤣😂). If you have specific questions I'm happy to help if I can. Just keep in mind, when I started using inkstitch I didn't know how to make a single straight line in inkscape. 🤪

@marinerdee

2 жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux thankyou, I will start over in a better frame of mind

hello there, windows user here - auto trace problem is not just a linux issue. also had issues that were similar. - thank you

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the update. Glad to know it's not just me ;)

So, I'm just curios: As a photoshop user, if I were doing this on photoshop, when doing the antenna after getting the satin stich right on one side - I would have just copied the layer, inverted and pasted it. I wonder if this is something I could do in this situation to save time...

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Sometimes I shortcut the design and duplicate objects, flip, and place. 😁

I’m having trouble with my image and subsequent stitch file. It has a lot of blank holes. I’ve tried to increase scans but when I break apart is when they seem to appear.

If y'all's imagine won't break apart select the image ungroup it and then hit break apart

Good video thanks

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍

After you use the trace bitmap tool you get a bunch of layers for each color, how do I get to that layers view? It exports it as 1 layer for me.

@LowTechLinux

6 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/oXisssh6cZjeYdI.htmlsi=g6IpKHQVKyVHwnnb&t=335

Quick question I know this video is rather old but will the embroidery machine notify u to change thread color??

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

Assuming you have a single needle machine, it will stop and wait for you to change thread color for each "color block", then you hit the go button again.

How do you select a section of a path. eg. when i created the paths, the path included 2 colours. I would like to select the section that needs to be removed and add/move it to another layer.

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

The way it sounds you created a shape. That shape has two colors, a fill color, and a stroke (border) color. To make it two separate objects, select the shape and turn off stroke. Duplicate the object, and in the duplicate turn on stroke, turn off fill. To get to the fill and stroke tool from the top menu, Objects > Fill and Stroke. Another way is on the colors bar at the bottom of inkstitch there's an X at the very left. If you click that X it will remove fill. If you hold shift and click that X it will remove stroke. Clicking a color gives the fill that color, shift click a color gives that color to the stroke (border).

I got all the way to the part where you said it was a stitchable file. I tried to save in my embroidery format, and it said it wouldn't be saved. What went wrong. BTW, I love the tutorial. Please help.

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

No problem. Run a troubleshoot and see what it says. Inkstitch > troubleshoot > troubleshoot objects

Hello again , so im getting random small stitches that are irrelevant that don't show up in the simulator or the realistic review, I can delete them while embroidering but it can get kind of confusing any idea why , again thanks

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

try the auto clean up, it is designed to automatically remove tiny stitch areas. Extensions > inkstitch > troubleshoot > cleanup document

I'm just a beginner in Inkstich, this is my first attempt. I need to change a PNG to VP3, so i started with your video.. I must be doing something wrong or not selecting something. I'm stuck at the Trace Bitmap. That worked fine, but I only get 1 layer. What am i missing ? thanks

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

If it worked well do an inkstitch break apart next. If it needs to break apart that will create additional objects. Make sure you're in object layers and not layer layers. Also, if you do a trace bitmap multiple scan, that will create multiple object layers. When in doubt do an inkstitch troubleshoot.

@KristinaSuhGCR

2 жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux LOL, i was looking at the wrong layers. thanks My image has too many colors, I would like to merge two layers so that it blends the section. or is there a way to select a section like you can with photoshop?

Great tutorial, does anyone know how to export as a .emb file? Having trouble

@LowTechLinux

Ай бұрын

Can't export as an emb file. It's a proprietary code owned by embrilliance and not open source. I recommend exporting as a dst file and see if your machine will work with it. Almost all embroidery machines will use dst file

I downloaded it onto my Mac, and my screen looks very different. I’m also not able to push the button that allows you to visualize the design before saving it, and I don’t see the same variety of ways to to save the file.

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the install didn't go just right. Are you on the most recent versions of both inkscape and inkstitch for the Mac?

Hello! Love your video so very helpful! I have a question, any idea how I can put more stitches to fill it more? Thanks a lot!

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

If it's a fill stitch, go into params and reduce (slightly) spacing between rows. Default is .25, try .2, then try .18. Small changes make a big difference here. If it's a satin stitch, params, and reduce (slightly) zig-zag spacing (peak-to-peak). Default is .4, try .35, then .3. Again, small changes make a big difference.

@mtrannet

Жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux Thanks a lot! will try it out!

When I do trace bitmap and the second image after scanning the colors of the image ain’t filled like it’s missing spots but I added all the colors

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

When you do the trace try unchecking the rounded corners option

@AJ-do8uw

Жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux for some reason on color I have to check stack to get the full color with no missing spots

Hi, what version of Inkstitch are you using? Mine look totally different

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Inkstitch v2.1.2 released in January. inkstitch.org/docs/install/

my extension bar does not have an ink/stitch. do you know how to fix this?

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

What operating system are you on?

Question, so when I use the "draw bezier curves & straight lines button 14:00 and try to draw an object, when I hit enter it connects the 1st and last clicks, and fills in the area? what setting do I need to adjust?

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

I've been looking to reproduce this but so far haven't been able to. Sorry I can't help more.

@Elvenmystery

Жыл бұрын

Me too. Did you find a solution?

@peterdebrino8290

Жыл бұрын

@@Elvenmystery Hi there, I believe so, under the Fill and Stroke Section, Make sure under fill. the NO PAINT or NO FILL is selected . I hope this helps. Keep watching, Dale really knows his stuff, I've learned so much

Would you happen to have the link to this image or is there anyway you can send it to me? I'd love to have this exact butterfly so I can follow along! Thanks

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea that I should implement in my tutorials. Thank you I will upload it and give you a link when I get home from work today.

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Hot off the presses, right click on the butterfly and select save as www.lowtechlinux.com/2022/01/26/butterfly-image-used-in-tutorial/

Thank u ❤ so much for this saving my life I have a jpeg file that my embroidery software won’t trace and when I try myself the lines are all messed up

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

I have found that jpgs are a bit annoying. If you have software to convert the jpg to PNG it might work better. The GIMP (gnu image manipulation program) is free and will work for this.

Do you ever make your own photo into an embroidery file like of you dog or cat?

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't yet but I have played around with the idea. I think it would mostly need to be done by drawing it out over the top of an image.

@MrShawnee1

2 жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux I will keep an eye open just in case you try it I'm so new to this stuff and just now received a embroidery machine and it's fried my mind. I have dogs horse's chickens and ducks I would love to learn it.

I’m trying to follow your videos but I think I might need something even more basic because I can’t get past opening the image. I try to troubleshoot like you do and it says “all shapes are valid”. I don’t know how you get it to open in layers either. When I click preview it stitches it all in black. I’m so lost.

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Try my beginners guide series. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qGepp5OdeKTdcsY.html

I have a more detailed image, I was wondering how I make it perfect when I do trace bitmap

@LowTechLinux

7 ай бұрын

Sometimes too much detail will muddy the trace bitmap. I'll do a video soon on how to get better trace results using an external image editor

Can someone please help me with this.... real novice here... The way he has everything displayed is great! the entire right side with all you tools and info needed. How do I get that set up ?

@rosalieprice2424

2 жыл бұрын

By the way I LOVE the software, just would be easier to use if I had this layout (:

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

The tools bar should keep the tools you load up. In other words if you load the fill and stroke tool it should be on the right side in the tool bar. You may need to grab the slider and pull it out to see, there's also a pop-up mode for the tools that over rides the toolbar. I will make a video explaining all this this evening that should help.

Thanks again all is going great except is it known that Mac's freezing, Sometimes im having to start over , thanks

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

I get that sometimes too. I just harken back to my old video game playing days, save often.

Ok! so I finally was able to get my embroidery to print out visually in the program, but then when I went to save it, It said it was unable to save my file to my embroidery format. The only way I was able to save it was as a zip file. Now I don't know how to convert it to my embroidery machine format! I need more help. Thanks! Shirley

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

Go file, save as, name.pes or name.dst (whatever extension your embroidery machine needs. Also, if you unzip that zip file it should have several embroidery formats to choose from

First thanks for ALL our videos , question, I followed your steps on creating a satin stitch , same simple exercise you did 3mos ago unlit I go to the simulator all I got was 2 lines crossing each other , I had to subscribe thanks again

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

Im not sure I understand your question, but it sounds like you need to enter params, satin stitch tab, and select custom satin stitch.

@orencioperez9120

Жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux First thanks for our reply not many do, ok so after using the busier Tool I made a line,, just fill , them clicking on covert to satin Line , and the parts, all I get is 2 lines crossing each other with I could show you thanks again

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

Send your svg to dale@lowtechlinux.com so I can have a look

@orencioperez9120

Жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux Wow much appreciated but thars not necessary im just trying to figure what im doing wring but I will send you a some photos

At 7 minutes what extention are you using?

@LowTechLinux

5 ай бұрын

Inkstitch for creating machine embroidery files with inkscape. inkstitch.org/

@rrwestenberger

5 ай бұрын

@@LowTechLinux thanks! Installing the extension now

How did you get your Objects - Paths to show? Thanks

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

From the top menu select Object > objects

@RobbieNicoleReadySetVlog

2 жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux thank you!!

Please help. When I choose break up objects I lose half of my image. Alot of items from the image disapears

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

Are you doing path > break apart or inkstitch > fill tools > break apart?

When I do trace bitmap, I only get one layer, I do not get all those paths like background and foreground. How can I fix this?

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

when you do a trace bitmap, in the trace bitmap tool box there should be tabs, single scan, multi color, and pixel art. single scan will only give you one layer, which you will then (usually) have to break apart. multi color scans will give you multiple layers that often won't need to be broke apart (but sometimes will). Try the multi color scan and see if it works for you.

@just_a_random_person3103

Жыл бұрын

That's what I used(multicolor scan), and I got 1 layer. Can that be fixed? Thanks for the quick response.

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

@@just_a_random_person3103 are there several colors in your original image? Is the trace giving multiple colors but only one layer? Try a break apart fill objects maybe?

@just_a_random_person3103

Жыл бұрын

It's giving multiple colors but one layer and I already tried break apart fill objects

@just_a_random_person3103

Жыл бұрын

In the original image there is only 2 colors

where do you get the Images from?

@LowTechLinux

3 ай бұрын

freesvg.org

@marlaynalorton4572

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you But I don’t believe I see how you actually save the file to a pes Am I just totally missing it. I can’t seem to accomplish it

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

I save twice, first I 'save as' something.svg, then I 'save as' something.png.

When i create a shape and make it a fill stitch when it's embroidering it, it starts at the bottom then goes up and when it's time to join the two halves together it always leaves this tiny little space between them and i don't know how to fix it, it's really frustrating, i don't know if you understand, english is not my main language.

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Try going into params and setting a different fill stitch angle. You can also change the start and stop points and see if that works (attach command iirc). If you can't find those settings let me know and I'll look them up more specifically when I get home from work.

@OfficialSiriusGames

2 жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux so far I only tried 0 and 45 degree angles and about the start and stop points I did not know I could change I'm gonna look into that.

@OfficialSiriusGames

2 жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux I fixed the problem with the start and stop points, thank you so much for helping me, and for making these tutorials.

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Glad I could help 🤗

@OfficialSiriusGames

2 жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux Oh and another problem i have is there are always gaps between shapes i always have to use expand for that not to happen but normally it shouldn't happen i think.

How can I reduce the amount of stitches because it makes too much for my embroidery machine

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Are the dimensions of your digitization too large for the machine you are putting it on? What are the dimensions of your work? Do you have any layers stitching on top of layers? These will make unnecessarily large stitch counts.

@r.fleury7242

2 жыл бұрын

@@LowTechLinux it was a 3x3 and it came out to like 30 thousand stitches

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

@@r.fleury7242 would you be willing to send me the SVG file to dale@lowtechlinux.com so I can have a look?

What’s 4 x 4 ?I can’t get it 😭

@LowTechLinux

Жыл бұрын

Just a setting of 4 inch by 4 inch. 100 mm x 100 mm gives almost the same size

i have managed to do 1 image now all i get trying to do another one is this Traceback (most recent call last): File "Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks thooks\pyi_rth_multiprocessing.py", line 12, in File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module File "multiprocessing\__init__.py", line 16, in File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module File "multiprocessing\context.py", line 6, in File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module File "multiprocessing eduction.py", line 16, in File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module File "socket.py", line 49, in ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _socket: The parameter is incorrect. any help? i have tried every version of both

@LowTechLinux

2 жыл бұрын

Please create a new issue on the git hub page for this and post that same traceback in your comment. github.com/inkstitch/inkstitch/issues