inkscape – Silver Seams

Special-effect fills with Ink/Stitch

August 14, 2020September 12, 2021 Karen at Silver Seams inkscape, inkstitch

We’re going to get a little adventurous with the effects today, using a feature that hasn’t been added to Ink/Stitch’s

Adding die lines to embroidery designs with Ink/Stitch

August 7, 2020September 12, 2021 Karen at Silver Seams cricut, die cutting, inkscape, inkstitch, machine embroidery, silhouette

Ink/Stitch on top of Inkscape makes producing a die line for embroidery designs that don’t have them easy. Both pieces of software are free and open-source, and run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Embroidery Tutorial

Color-sorting with Ink/Stitch

July 27, 2020September 12, 2021 Karen at Silver Seams embrilliance, inkscape, inkstitch, machine embroidery

When you have a single-color embroidery machine, sometimes you want to sew a bunch of identical items to make the

Embroidery Tutorial

Monogramming without a font

March 20, 2020September 12, 2021 Karen at Silver Seams embroidery font, inkscape, inkstitch, machine embroidery

Or rather, without an embroidery font. You don’t need to buy a whole font if you just need initials or

Organizing tools: a dot-grid journal, pages of sewing steps.

Managing a problem employee (me. It’s me)

March 25, 2019March 2, 2020 Karen at Silver Seams adhd, inkscape, inkstitch, machine embroidery, small business

As you may have guessed from my all-over-the-map projects, I have a little trouble staying on task. This is fine

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