18. Wildcard week¶
Design and produce something with a digital fabrication process (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignment, documenting the requirements that your assignment meets, and including everything necessary to reproduce it.
My area of choice was Embroidery
Learning outcomes
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Demonstrate workflows used in the chosen process
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Select and apply suitable materials and processes to do your assignment
Like the previous weeks , student are expected to complete a weekly assignment.
Individual project
- Embroider a design on a piece of fabric something big
At the NIHERST Fablab we had access to Brother PE550D embroidery machine:
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Work Area :4” x 4” Maximum Embroidery Area
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Large color touch LCD screen
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125 built-in designs
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9 font styles
Embroidery
The craft of embroidery involves using a needle and thread to decorate material, especially textile fabric (and sometimes fine wire). Along with quillwork and featherwork, basic techniques include crewel work, needlepoint, cross-stitch embroidery, and quilting.
Machine Setup¶
This was a new piece of equipment to the lab with a very easy setup
Software¶
Ink stitch
A free and open-source platform for designing machine embroidery based on Inkscape
Inkstitch Installation
Download and installation of Ink Stitch
Key notes when installing:
- Download the correct vision for your OS (I used Windows)
- Ink/Stitch needs to be installed into the Inkscape extensions folder.
Confirming Ink stitch is installed Open Inkscape and go to extensions on the main tab
Preparing an image for embroidery¶
As always I downloaded an Star Wars Imperial Logo vector image from online that I like .
Open image in Inkscape and Trace Bitmap
Note: Delete the original image
Go to Ink Stitch in the Extensions Tab > Params
I adjusted the spacing between rows
Then save as pes file
Transfer to a USB flash drive and connect USB to machine
Embroidery Machine setup¶
Treading the Machine
Treading the was simple I just follow the instructions on the machine .
Tread in spool
1 to 2
3 to 4 if filling bobbin
next step 3 for machine
to tread bobbin
Place backing paper underneath fabric and then into frame
I’m all set to begin embroidery
Loading file¶
Press green button to begin
Finish product
