Still more Perl

Wed, 03 Apr 2024

I thought I would "real quick" digitize the new BeeZeeArt moth, and of course it's led me off down a rabbit trail.

My fun little Perl utility already took Ink/Stitch designs and a list of sizes and created the ZIP file with all the different sizes in it. Now I'm teaching it to look at the threadlist files and my list of Inkscape pages and decide what sizes it can create.

Do you use Ink/Stitch and not have presets for standard hoop sizes? Here's the list I currently use:

#NAME,                    WIDTH, HEIGHT, UNIT

4x4,                        100,    100, mm

5x5,                        140,    140, mm

5x7,                        130,    180, mm

8x8,                        200,    200, mm

6x10,                       150,    250, mm

6x10 max,                   160,    260, mm

7x12,                       180,    300, mm

8x12,                       200,    300, mm

8x14,                       200,    360, mm

9x12,                       230,    300, mm

9.5x14,                     240,    360, mm

The BeeZee moth fits in a 5x7 hoop as-is, but there's no reason you can't size it all the way down to 4x4 (55%). The antenna will get a little hard to turn depending on your fabric, but at that size maybe you just use some faux-floral bits instead.

There's also no reason you can't size it up. I've got some satins on my version that I don't want to split, so I'm capping it at 133%, which shouldn't run into any other limits like resizing the flat body.

Now I just need to get back to the machine to do some testing. I've got the luna moth digitized, and a hawk moth that isn't one of BeeZee's examples, plus the next round of chihuahua tests.