InkStitch - embroidery logos

Objectives

• Download icons from the Noun Project Break apart icons into subpath Create simple stitch files with fills

See also

• Computerized embroidery

• Quality: to improve

• Difficulty: beginner

Introduction

Creating professional logos is probably fairly difficult. However, you can fairly easily create a logo if the original drawing or picture is not too complicated.

Mediawiki Logo

(draft)

Get the Logo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_logo_reworked_2.svg

• Select all and ungroup once

Fix the petals

• Subtract white traits from yellow sunflower outline:
• Open the objects panel.
• Select all the white little stripes (inside the group Inline stripes)
• Make the strokes a bit fatter, e.g. 1.5mm
• Transform the strokes to path (Menu path:Stroke to path).
• Merge into a single path (CTRL-K)
• SHIFT CTRL Select yellow flower (Tournesol_1_) and the new combined strokes path
• Menu Path -> Difference.
• Fix the petals with the Node Editor (optional, I did not)

Fix the center, i.e. keep the circle but remove the yellow behind

• Select the center circle
• Transform it to a path (Menu Path -> Object ot Path)
• Copy past in place
• CTRL select Flower and the new center drawing
• Menu Path -> Difference

Remove some junk left by Illustrator and use cleanup procedures

• Open the XML editor
• Kill the metadata section (use the little "remove node" icon on top)
• Now Select All and Ungroup
• File -> Cleanup
• File -> Save as optimized SVG

Break apart the tournesol

• Select tournesol
• Path -> Break Apart
• Select Mediawiki text
• Path -> Break Apart
• Fix the "D" letter (SHIFT select outside, inside, then difference)
• Fix the "A" letter

Put everything into a layer

• Create a new layer
• Select all and move to new layer

Parametrize

• Menu Extensions -> Embroidery - Params
• Select Autofill