5x12 Embroidery Hoop: Using Inkscape & Ink/Stitch to Embroider a Hoodie on the Brother SE1900

hey peeps welcome back to project anonymous and in today's video we are going to be using this repositional 5x12 hoop and try to make a design with an inkscape and ink stitch so stick around and see how we do it [Music] let's address the differences between a 5 by 12 hoop and a 5x7 hoop other than just size the 5x7 is the largest capacity that a brother sc 1900 can embroider in one take and you can see there's two pin locations on a 5x7 hoop whereas the 5x12 hoop has four pin locations so that's kind of the the key difference your brother sc900 can embroider something this big but you're just going to have to do it in a couple stages if you will so that's why they call it a repositional hoop because you first position it on one side of it and then reposition to another side to finish the embroidery operation what the issue that we have is inkscape doesn't have it built in to do a reposition embroidery project so we're going to have to play around with it today to see how we're going to break down our embroidery design into two parts and then kind of line it up appropriately on our machine when we get to the second stage of it we know that there is software out there that does this for you like hatch and the the brother software um already has this built in so that you can break apart your design but you gotta pay money for those and we're trying to use inkscape to make it because we don't want to just try it yeah just we just are curious to see if we can do it in escape so we're gonna try it and see what we come up with so we're going to start by creating our 5 by 12 template this is just going to show our work area that we're working with so we get the right size on where we need it to be or show us our limitations and type yeah we're just going to do project anonymous and pick some fonts and sizes great we're very indecisive so this will take a while that looks pretty nice i like how it's overlaying the cursive to make it counts because i think it just looks better capitalized in that typewriter font that's gonna be it right there we're going to path object to path and then we'll do a params check shape's not valid so we're going to go ahead and use something that one of you told us about in extensions there's a fill breaker part function and this should make it work so we're going to try this and it's working just like that so now we're going to select the half of the design that we're gonna put in file one this is gonna be like that we're gonna save this as uh our first file to embroider yeah and then we'll come back and save the second half it seems to be working so now just save it as part one 5x12 test one and finally we'll go ahead and embroider this should save it as 5x12 test one pes okay we'll do a quick command z to undo that and select the second half and we're going to call this five we're going to save it as 5 by 12 test two and this will be our second embroidery file after we reposition the hoop yeah just dip ramps check to make sure it works a problem that we will face is because we separated those two files from each other they aren't like a line so we're gonna have to manually align them ourselves to get them to like go right so it won't be like all messed up or anything like that yeah unlike other programs where they will link to two files to each other so the machine knows where it's supposed to start we will have to do that manually because these two files are completely independent of each other and there's really no way that we can find an inkscape to tie the two together so that we can start off right where we need to so we're gonna have to do that alignment ourselves which is gonna be difficult to save thread in our test we decided to change up our design real quick just to an outer thin stroke and change that stroke to a dash line so it's just going to give us the the outer edge of our letters because again all we're doing is testing this out on some scrap fabric for alignment purposes just so we have an idea of how we're supposed to align the sweater when we get to it okay so here's the tricky part we're going to reposition the hoop to the other set of the pins and now we're gonna have to align part two of this design run our second file and already it would be an issue because the sewing is going this way when it needs to be like this so we just quickly rotate that now it you can see it's not in the right spot that's how we're gonna do it so we're gonna first see where is the upper left hand corner because we can line this up with the bottom of the y so that we know that this corner right here is going to sew right where it needs to be so we're going to go ahead and click on this upper left-hand button here and you can see now it moves but it's not the right spot so we do need to move that but now we know that this is the spot on the sewing machine that it would start back out and start moving it close okay one more nope too far and then we need to move it this way so all we've done and again this is the hard part of it is we've had to now move our design into the right spot to where it will correspond with our other part of the ceiling so that looks if this is the upper left-hand corner that is perfectly lined up where it needs to start so now we can just go to embroider okay and then we can go and start [Music] it looks pretty good yeah it's not perfect um i think i can spend a little bit more time aligning oops you can see it's about a sixteenth of an inch too high so next time when we get it on your sweater we'll move it down i think we should do another test on this and since we just did a single stitch it's going to be fine we can just go right over in a different color just so i can make sure i get all the spacing right because i do not want to mess or ruin your sweater but we've proven you can do it yeah it's just not perfect and we'll try to get it perfect not super convenient no it's not convenient at all um but if you just play around with uh the move settings on your machine you can get it to to line up eventually as long as your design is different objects i don't even know how we would go about it if there wasn't spaces in between now that we have our five by twelve hoop hoop around our hoodie and we used which was not yes we did it was not easy to hoop at all but fun to try right so this was our original design it kind of turned it the project was brown but you want the project to be green now yes okay so we're going to [Music] okay let's see which color goes first so it's saying it's moss green first but that's gonna be the brown now right okay always make sure there's nothing underneath [Music] [Music] all right so what happened so never leave your embroidery project unattended what happened is this flipped in and got in between the top part of this little uh embroidery foot and the needle and it actually got sewn through so we have to try to unstitch it very carefully [Music] [Music] so it finally finished after a few bumps in a row but it still looks pretty good yeah we ended up being able to line it up just right so it appears like we sewed it on straight and we successfully did a 5 by 12 hoop so let's see what it looks like outside the hoop oh it looks very nice doing okay you just need to cut off the jump stitches let me see your back real quick turn around i'm just happy that we got the two sides the two separate files to line up just right and it looks like it was one continuous zoned project which is exactly what we wanted so we'll clean it up and we'll put our logo on the front and then we'll be done yeah awesome now that we've finished our hoodie we're going to go over some lessons we've learned one being use a test piece yes if you're going to plan on using your 5 by 12 repositional hoop with inkscape again realizing that there is no connection between the two files you have to physically line it up correctly and we in our first one it didn't line up so great even though we were right on the stitch uh where we wanted to be we knew we had to adjust uh by a sixteenth of an inch to get it just perfect on the second run and on our final run so using a test piece is very helpful in getting it lined up perfectly so another thing we've learned is probably the most important one don't leave your sewing machine unattended yes so we walked away for a second and part of the sweater got sewn to itself around the foot which is very bad so fortunately we were able to pull out all those stitches and you really can't tell anymore so but it's our lesson learned we're going to make sure especially when embroidering smaller clothes to stick around and make sure we're watching yeah our last lesson learned is that we would never really want to do this procedure with a single object or something that had to match up or in line up and look seamless text is very forgiving in that we could separate it out and make it light up just right but if if this was a single object getting it to line up and be seamless i'd imagine would be very difficult and we don't plan on trying that at least with inkscape if you have any tips for us on using the 5x12 hoop with inkscape and estitch please comment down below and let us know this was our first time doing it and didn't seem very easy to ask anyways thanks so much for watching i hope you enjoyed this video and if you did please like it like it subscribe if you enjoy our content subscribe and turn on those notifications so you're my every single time we post a video stay crafty and be happy bye [Music] do [Music] okay

Channel: Project Anonymous

Views: 2,031

Keywords: Embroidery, Brother, SE1900, 5x12 hoop, Large hoop, repositional hoop, ink/stitch, Inkscape

Id: Bfc_AhaDmaU

Length: 17min 29sec (1049 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 28 2021