15. Wildcard week
This week, we will discover embroidery and much more....
Embroidery
"Embroidery involves using a needle and thread to create decorative designs on fabric, sometimes adding beads or sequins for extra detail. This ancient craft enriches textiles with unique and intricate patterns, reflecting cultural traditions and personal creativity." _If you ask chatgpt to explain it in 2 sentences, lol...
In my words: it's a machine that can create your designs in thread and stitch onto a piece of fabric...
The type of machine that we are using is a Brother innovis NV870
A couple of things that must be done before starting: create the design in Inkscape with the extension that you have to install. You can find the extension (inkstitch) here
Create the file
- Open inkscape
- Start a new document
- Select the type of hoop you want to use and import this into your parameters. I am using the small one so the setup will be 13x18cm.
- Import the drawing that you want or create it yourself
- Select the drawing and open it with the extension Inkstitch
- Set up the parameters
- Apply the changes
- Save your files as .pes
Start the embroidery
Now that the file is ready, we can start the embroidery!
- Put the file onto the thumbdrive and plug it into the machine.
- Select the file.
- Adjust the size if it is necessary.
- Choose the color you want for the bobbin and teh spool, in my case, i am using orange for both.
- Add the spool into the machine and the thread allong the path.
- Add the fabric with the underfabric into the hoop and then add the hoop into the machine.
- Press start!
- Monitor the stitching
The embroidery takes 32 minutes (without complications)!
Unfortunatly, I did have some complications... The thread got stuck multiple times so I had to find a way to let let it work without having the spool getting stuck.
Other than that, it all worked fine :)
Pictures and video of the process
Final result
This is the result! As you can see, it looks a bit chaotic with the threads that go everywhere...And to be honest, the entire process took me 1.30h and the stitching only takes 32min :p
