Inkstitch - Knockdown stitches are easy

i got requested today to make a video showing how to do a knockout stitch okay cool so as soon as i got home i asked my wife what's a knockout stitch she explained that the person in question probably meant a knock down stitch i said oh yeah okay so what's a knock down stitch it's in case you don't know it's basically when you have a very fluffy or wild material it knocks it down keeps it in place creates a palette for your design to go on to and i'm sure she explained it to me better than i just did but that's the part that i remember and on google for machine embroiderygeek.com which is cool i consider myself a geek uh what are knock down stitches and knock down stitch and embroidery is a base layer of stitching designed to go underneath the name monogram or embroidery design its function is to hold down nappy fabric nappy to make the primary embroidery design more prominent yeah keeps keeps all that nappy fabric in check basically i've got a couple of examples just from a google search borrow these just for a for a brief second that was really nice that one's cool and and one thing to one thing to note or to take note of the knock down stitch is primarily the same color as the fabric keep that in mind that one's pretty cool describing it so let's go on and i'm gonna make a few different ones all of these are gonna be really quick and easy i say that going into this should be pretty quick and easy let's say you're going to give a wedding gift that is his and hers embroidered towels you got green towels and you're to make his and hers so just as an example we're going to do this real quick i'm going to try that over hit ctrl try to keep it controlled and straight about like that drop this into here path object to path so i can get these three nodes right here drag that over cool now on our objects layer i'm going to hit ctrl d to duplicate so now i have two of them we're going to do green because we said you know the the knock down is going to be green because the towels are green in our example now now that we have these two we're going to go to extensions i'm going to do the bottom one first just to keep them in order go to params i'm going to uncheck automatically route and i'm going to go to fill which is going to be checked manually we're going to change that spacing between rows we're going to change that from a quarter to one and a quarter 1.25 so that makes a very long distance in between each one and we're going to change the fill stitch length to 2. and on the angle of stitches we're going to change that to a 45 degree angle nice hit apply and quit do the same thing on the next one up get the ink stitch params uncheck automatic fill we're going to go to fill we're going to set the spacing between rows and i'm gonna let that come up so we can see the stitch count 17 000 stitch counts in that little just that little piece so we're going to change spacing between rows we're going to change it to 1.25 and that's going to go down to 3600 a lot less and two and instead of 45 degrees we want minus 45 degrees if you're good with math if you're better with math than i am you can actually use the degrees that it is but 45 degrees and minus 45 degrees that in my mind makes sense okay so we're going to look at this real quick as a visualize there's no reason in the world it shouldn't be valid okay so just scoot this along real quick that's what it looks like that way and then that way and then with the little crossing cross looking thing it looks a lot like the designs that we were seeing on the google search and you can change your your angle if you want uh like i said i'm just doing those numbers because it's easy for me then we'll just go in here ink stitch lettering uh we're gonna just pick something leave it at a hundred text will be his let's go with hers you know ladies first come on hit apply grab that and drag it down i'm gonna make it bigger you really shouldn't do it that way but i'm going to and i'm going to i think i'm going to make it white so hold down the shift button and press the white color here color whatever you want my wife says it's neat to have the same color satin stitch as the color of the background we'll see that in a minute so we're gonna i'm gonna troubleshoot just because i did such a such a size change in that lettering okay we're good and then visualize speed that up really hard to see isn't it of course i do white and make it hard to see so let's do black so it's easier to see see that's a little easier to see oh yeah okay that's one example then you could put a satin stitch border around that if you want to we're going to do another one i'm actually going to drag this one in this is a design that i did a couple weeks ago for sweetie and i'm going to take those two things off zoom in just a hair grab everything pull it up and then we're going to just design around it ah i think i want straights okay we'll go straights for now and then we'll adjust accordingly okay i want fill it's probably not black fabric let's assume light lilac fabric okay so there's our light ylak fabric i'm gonna make no make sure it doesn't have a stroke and then we'll i want to do that thing grab them all make them round yeah that works okay yeah and then we'll we'll duplicate just like we did before we're going to take the original design and put it on top so that's what it looks like not bad but i do say so myself and then we'll do the same thing extensions ink stitch params i'm going to turn off the auto fill route we're going to go 45 degrees 2.0 and 1.25 and a lot of this will change depending on the shagginess of the fabric you're working on i'm just showing you basically how this works hit apply make the other one ink stitch params same thing uncheck go to fill do a minus 45 a two millimeter and a one point two five and apply the other thing's pretty complex so i'm gonna go ahead and troubleshoot just to make sure i didn't knock anything out of bounds all shapes are valid and let's see what she looks like really hard to see i really don't see anything it's really hard to see but it's there okay scoot that on through i'm gonna do one more this one's gonna be a little bit different got a hand towel got a wee little hand towel that's fuzzy you probably can't tell and i'm gonna do an h for sweetie heather with a knock down and a satin outline around the knockdown make it a little bit smaller because i'm still playing that's why so we'll go four by four and there we go five corners i'm gonna make it just a hair smaller okay path object path maybe don't have to do that i'm going to leave this black just so that we on screen we can see what's going on anything else you can't really see it so both of those we've already done it ink stitch params turn off automatic fill go to manual fill change to 45 change to 2 change to 1.25 hit apply same thing on this one params uncheck automatic go to fill minus 45 2 1.25 so with both of those done now we're going to go to lettering romanesca i like that one next capital h hit apply drag that down here make it white i'm going to push shift and white i'm going to fill that out a little bit more okay because i made the lettering so much larger we're going to do a troubleshoot all shapes are valid we're going to visualize speed up hard to see that h but i think you can see it and then on both of these both of those are going to become white so it's white on white on white i'll stitch it out and i'll show you what it looks like momentarily here it is as a picture that is the design that i just made white white on white on white it's kind of nice hope this helps you out that is knock down stitch in ink stitch thanks for watching

Channel: Low Tech Linux

Views: 827

Keywords: inkstitch, inkscape, knockdown, stitches

Id: yDm6F5sT53I

Length: 15min 16sec (916 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 21 2021