16. Wildcard Week¶
This week I did two projects! I originally wanted to do a two-part mold because I understand how molding and casting works now. Although we already had a whole week dedicated to it so I decided to do some Embroidering as well.
Embroidery¶
First I chose what I wanted to embroider. I wanted it to be something meaningful and cool so I chose a symbol from my religion.
This is a pentacle. Each point of the star represents spirit, water, air, fire, and earth. I thought this was a really cool thing to embroider. First I installed a program called Inkstitch. This program is an extension for Inkscape that works with the embroidery machine. First I imported my Image. Then I traced the bitmap to remove the background.
Then I went to Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Params
Then after you click this it gives you a great preview of what the machine is going to do and various settings. I personally did not need to change any of these settings. This is how it looked:
This looked good so I put it on a the embroidery machine flash drive, but when I tried to click on it on the embroidery machine it was greyed out. I was confused until I realized that I didn’t change the size of my file. It was extremely big. So I changed the size of my Pentacle to fit the parameters of the embroidery machine. After that I reuploaded it to the embroidery machine through the flash drive and it worked perfectly. I already had the blue color I wanted inside the machine so I did not need to change the thread spool. So I got some of the embroidery paper and inserted it into the machine. After it was all inserted it estimated my embroider time and it was 7 minutes. So I started the embroider:
Then this is how it turned out:
This turned out great I love it. I want to embroider it on a tote bag now because that would look cool. Embroidering was fairly easy but it was extremely helpful and great to learn. I learned how to download Inkscape extensions. I honestly didn’t know you could add extensions to do so many things so that was very informational. Then I learned how to trace bitmaps and get the image to look great. Then I learned how to run the embroidery machine entirely. Although I did not have to change the thread I wanted when my peers had to so I would know how as well.
This is the design file
