u/TheEclipticArts

Hi there! I hope you're all doing well. I'm currently working on a wig for a Maomao cosplay (redesigned by SunsetDragon), but I've decided that instead of just "blocking it out" in simple shapes, I'd really love to do something inspired by more traditional styles since I think they're beautiful, and would compliment this cosplay best.

I've been searching for about an hour and a half, but I'm really struggling to find resources for this style. I've attached the one reference I was able to find below, but unfortunately it's not super helpful as there aren't any back angles, and I can't quite tell what's going on.

If anyone has any better references, or even better - could show in any format how they would bring this style into reality, it would be hugely appreciated!

I hope you have a lovely day!

Hi all! I hope you're well. I was just wondering if anyone would be willing to reach out with a quote for digitizing this repeating freestanding lace design? I'd really love to see it done over the next few days.

I'm happy to be flexible with fills, etc and will happily hand over the SVG I've made so far to make things easier.

I've been doing my best to try it myself, but the time crunch / still learning inkstitch combo has really got the better of me.

I'm happy to do testing myself, I just need the polished skills / software to get the file going!

Thanks so much, and have a lovely day!

I made a (brushbuddy) lil guy to add to the community's hoard! He's a bit silly and goofy, and was spontaneously made using an ancient 2nd hand blanket, but I love him to bits. He's my weird little creachur <3

Pretty chuffed with this for my third design in ink/stitch!

Besides colours, which I'm going to change up when I buy some more thread next week, I'd love any (kindly worded) feedback you have to give!

What I'm noticing is:

- Little big of gapping around the edge of the "gem"

- Slightly higher density needed for the white and black?

- I'd really love for the gold pieces to be smoother (satin stitch)

- A bit more irregularity in the satin stitches of the "gem" to make it look a bit more organic.

Thanks so much, and have a lovely day!

Hey all! I'm working on my first practice digitalization piece using ink/stitch, and I've just run into some issues with jump stitches. I'd really appreciate some help.

I managed to sort out most of the issues I had before by reorganizing layers and breaking some down into further paths I can reorder, but the final black outline is giving me some grief. I started with a bitmap from an image, then edited the nodes to be tidier.

It just seems that it's doing many large and unnecessary jump stitches in the second half of the black section. I'm very much still learning, and have done my best to research, but none of the methods I've found and understood worked on the black when they did for the white / red.
When I tried to "break down" the main lineart path with CTRL + Shift + K in an attempt to reorder elements, it seemed to just break it. I'll attach images below of what happened to it.

I'd really appreciate any advice on how to fix this, ideally without taking too many shortcuts, as I'd love to build up the fundamental knowledge, painful as it may be. Thanks so much!

(p.s. I'm going to bed since I'm nodding off, and haven't looked at it properly, but if anyone can tell me why only the base layers of stitching are showing up on params, that would be lovely too lol.)

Edit: I've fixed the "Needle" layer to be under the skirt to hide that jump stitch.

Hi there! I hope you're all well. I'm about to get my first embroidery machine, and I'm just in the opening phases of learning ink/stitch.

I was wondering if anyone has a premade sample "sheet" / "grid" anywhere, which shows different stitches / settings within the software? Something similar to this (link), except not for errors, just for standard embroidery options? Here's another example in the context of dyeing. I would almost describe it as a grid with control variables and then the independent variables that change it. Hopefully this explains what I mean, but I'm happy to try to explain more if needed!

I'm slowly whittling through Project Anonymous's tutorials, but I'm really into sampling right now across the crafting board, and it would be really nice to have physical references of what I can do, and what variations there are on that.

Thanks so much for your help and / or your time, I really appreciate it! Have a lovely day.