InkStitch - lettering

Machine embroidery
Module: InkStitch
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⚐ draft	☸ intermediate
⚒ 2019/10/02	⚒⚒ 2018/06/05
Prerequisite(s)
Inkscape InkStitch - basic use‎‎ InkStitch - satin columns
Objectives
Create letters with the lettering module Adjust size of the generated digitized text Manipulate letters
See also
Computerized embroidery

Objectives

Create letters with the lettering module
Adjust size of the generated digitized text
Manipulate letters

Prerequisites

See also

Computerized embroidery

Quality: draft

Difficulty: intermediate

Introduction[edit | edit source]

Lettering is probably the most popular stitching activity for beginning home users. As of Spring 2019, Ink/Stich does include a simple digitized font available under lettering in the Ink/Stich menu.

Most embroidery machines do include some lettering facilities and all serious embroidery packages include a lettering module. As of Spring 2019, there is only one included lettering font, but that should change in the future.

In addition, InkStitch allows - like a professional embroidery program - creating letters from SVG fonts. See the next two articles, i.e. InkStitch - design letters and InkStitch - Geneva-simple typefaces

See also the InkStitch - embroidery patch tutorial. It explains how to create rounded text from either simple text with fills or from digitized fonts as described here.

The lettering module[edit | edit source]

For Ink/Stitch 1.25 (Mai 2019). Version 1.26 allows selecting from several fonts now and also transform the size (i.e. instructions below need some updating)

To create letters[edit | edit source]

Menu Extensions -> Ink/Stitch -> Lettering
Type your text in the popup menu
Apply and Quit

Lettering with Ink/Stitch 1.25

You now can see a group of letters. Each letter is also a group. Open Menu Objects -> Objects to check this.

Adjusting letter size[edit | edit source]

By default, the letters produced are rather big, i.e. a capital letter is about 20mm high (font size 79pt bold). You can probably safely scale this down by 50%, e.g. use a letter size of 10mm.

Menu Object->Transform
Scale tab
Tick Scale proportionally
Scale to 50%

Reduce size of lettering with Ink/Stitch 1.25

Manipulate letters[edit | edit source]

Since the generated letters are just ordinary SVG objects with Ink/Stitch satin stitch annotations, you can do anything you like with these objects. E.g. manipulate individual letters by making them fatter or having them follow a curve. To do this, please have a look on the InkStitch - embroidery patch (section 4).