Silver Seams

Dino-Mouse embroidery alphabet

Wed, 09 Feb 2022

I needed some embroidered text for a Christmas project and couldnā€™t find the right alphabet, so I made my own. Now that Iā€™m using the new Ink/Stitch, I turned it into a compatible ā€œfontā€ file, and itā€™s here for free.

The sampler is stitched on some interesting stuff I found while killing time at Dollar[-and-a-quarter] Tree. After discovering the ā€œfaux leather trimā€ at craft stores is often just 8ā€³-wide rolls of vinyl, I have been taking a close look at all kinds of rolls. These are 6ā€³ wide, and out of curiosity I picked one up and looked at the backing.

Folks: theyā€™re non-woven spun-bonded stuff. That is to say: knockoff Oly-Fun! The ā€œglitterā€ is just a textured surface, same as the metallic Oly-Fun. Even with a fairly dense satin stitch, it didnā€™t have any tear-out issues at all. Itā€™s going to be great for lining notebook covers and dice tube holders and whatnot.

Anyway, back to the freebie: if you downloaded it from the early-access entry on my Ko-Fi, download it again. Now itā€™s a ZIP file that you can unzip in your custom font directory, which will make it available in the Ink/Stitch Lettering tool instead of having to copy individual letters out of the SVG. You might need to adjust the spacing (kerning is just the automatically generated default), but itā€™s still pretty darn handy.

[Dinomouse Ink/Stitch Alphabet]

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