16. Wildcard week

This week out lab set up embroidery machines and so I decided to try my hand learning how to design and embobdier.

Goals: 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. Possibilities include (but are not limited to):

Setting up Inkstitch

First of all I installed InkStitch as an add on to inkscape

I downloaded the installer

And ran the installation into the extension folder of Inkscape

I then followed this tutorial and create a simple logo I wanted to use which was all letter. I chose the correct font/.

Ink stitch did not like the text formate so I used the Stroke to path to turn it into an object that Inkstitch can work with

I think when to the inksttich add on and choose "Param" which lets you adjust different embrodery parameters and simulates that machines.

I played around with the Parameters but the basic set up that it opened with looked great.

I saved it both as an SVG and a PES which is the formate that is needed to tbe embroidery machine

We are not ready to move over the machine and try it out in real life.

Using the Brother SE600

First I watched this tutorial

First of all I got the thread in place

I then followed the set up running the thread through the machine into the needle based on the tutorial and on machine sticker directions.

Embroidery Stabilizer stretched into frame

I then got the bobbin in place

I uploaded the file and started.....unfortunately a few seconds the machine stopped

We got the following error

Initialy I thought I either got the thread routing wrong or the bobbin direction but it kept givin the error .... further inspection showed a bent needle