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For this design the heart is red with that small pink section a lighter shade red.. And the for the black section the gray is a light shade of black. Instead of changing thread colors I wanted the stitching to show the color variation. Is that possible?

My first attempt at digitizing (18 hours over the span of 2 days 🥲) I knew it was going to be ugly but wanted to test how my machine even handled homemade files.
I followed multiple YouTube videos and TikTok’s and the way they showed to change to satin stitch would make the piece I was working on just disappear, or I’d get an error message saying I needed to add fill color, then after adding the fill color I’d get another error message saying something like “the following pieces could not convert” and it would be everything.
I’d like a smoother satin stitch outline in general, but also how do I make the big long stitched wedges to have shorter stitches going horizontal?

Occasionally I'll get a random stop in the middle of my embroidery. There is no stop in this pattern, anywhere that I can find - I just want to turn it on and go away until it's done - but there's a jump stitch here (deliberate) where the machine stops before and after. I open the DST but don't see a command marker there. Params doesn't show a stop there, or on either object on either side.

Any ideas?

Is this the best I can realistically hope for with a white fill over a black velvet background? I've got a knockdown stitch over a water soluble topper and a bidirectional underlay in the fill itself. I avoided going too dense on the fill stitches since I've read that usually isn't the fix. This is definitely the best this pattern has come out so far, but it's still not as solid as I'd like.

(I know my satin contour underlays are showing, they're going away next attempt since they've never played nice.)

u/Calianna1915 Hopefully this helps give you a visual of what I tried to explain...it's a quick but you should get the idea.

Hi, I'm experimenting with the new cross stitch feature and I'm interested in converting pixel art to cross stitch embroidery.

Some things I've noticed:

- Anything larger than 100x100 pixels takes extremely long and often crashes

- The "One cross each pixel" function does not result in one cross for each pixel, it re-interpolates the original image, changes the colors dramatically, and adds more stitches than there are pixels. (see attached image for an example)

I understand that the image I'm using is impractical for machine cross stitch because there would be too many jumps. I also understand that 1mm per stitch is tiny and might not work well when stitched out with a machine. Regardless, I think the software side of this should still work as expected and not re-interpolate the original bitmap or create a number of stitches different from the number of pixels when the "One cross each pixel" option is checked.

Is there something I'm doing wrong or a feature that I missed?

Thanks!

This is an update to yesterday's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Inkstitch/comments/1vk17nu/cross_stitch_assistant_not_working_as_expected/

TLDR: I was having trouble getting the new cross stitch assistant to convert pixel art into cross stitch embroidery; I wanted it to create one cross stitch per pixel, so I assumed that the "one cross each pixel" function would do that. But it added extra cross stitches and re-interpolated the colors.

I've experimented with it some more and I was able to get it to convert pixel art to cross stitch 1:1. Here's how I did it:

- import the bitmap, set the position to 0,0 and set the scale to 1mm per pixel. In my case, it's a 32x32 bitmap, so I set the size to 32x32mm.

- Select the bitmap and go to Extentions> Inkstitch> Tools: Fill > Cross Stitch Assistant

- Under "Settings", set the Grid Horizontal Spacing to 1.00mm

- Under "Bitmap Settings, checkmark "Convert bitmaps", but do not checkmark "One cross each pixel" because that will add extra stitches and colors.

- Under "Color Selection", choose "List with RGB values" and enter the values of the colors in the bitmap. You can also try your luck with adding the amount of colors under "Number of colors", but that doesn't always work properly. It might combine two or more of the colors if they're similar.

- Click "Apply". You should now have a vectorized/digitized version of your bitmap, at 1mm per cross stitch, and each cross stitch representing one pixel of the bitmap. If you want bigger stitches, set the original bitmap to a bigger size, for example 64x64, and then set the Grid Horizontal Spacing to the size of each pixel, in this case 2mm.

Conclusion: My final stitchout doesn't look great - 1mm per cross stitch is tiny and very dense, and I need to figure out pull compensation because there are a lot of overlaps (if anyone has good tutorials on that, please drop them in the comments). However, I'm happy knowing that I've got the software side of things working the way I want.

Hi everyone,

I've been building StitchBase, a free beta extension for InkStitch that helps review and improve embroidery designs. It reviews SVGs, highlights potential issues, explains them, suggests fixes, and answers questions about your current design.

This is an early beta, and I'm trying to find out if it's genuinely useful or if I'm solving the wrong problem.

It's completely free and requires no login.

I've attached a short demo video. You can find the installation guide and download the extension at https://stitchbase.online/.

If you have a few minutes, I'd really appreciate it if you could try it with one of your own designs and share your honest feedback.

Would you use something like this? Should I keep building it, or am I heading in the wrong direction? What would make it genuinely useful in your workflow?

Thank you!