InkStitch - QR code embroidery

Objectives

• Create embroidery patch designs Stitch patches with the "cut first" method Hooping for patches Glueng patches

See also

• Computerized embroidery

• Quality: draft

• Difficulty: intermediate

Introduction

Stitching low resolution QR codes (and similar) is fairly easy, i.e. feasible if you do not plan to pack too much information into a code.

Creating a simple InkStitch QR code

(draft)

Create the QR code

There are many online and offline tools to create QR Codes

We will use the free qrcode-monkey service. I allows:

• creating qr codes in various resolutions
• addding a picture
• exporting in SVG !

The following screenshot shows the four steps required to produce a QR code image using default styles.

1. Enter the contents of tag, i.e. the URL in our case
2. Set the resolution. Make it low because the resolution of embroidery is not very good.
3. Click "Create QR Code"
4. Click SVG to export.

Create a default-styled low resolution QR code

Create SVG embroidery

Code produced by QR Code Monkey has the following structure

• A single group on top
• Nested groups with mostly SVG rectangles inside. Only the three big rectangles are path objects

Structure of a simple QRCode Monkey SVG file