![]() (I use the pen tool to make all my shapes if you want to use any of the other tools the important thing to note is the Inkstitch plugin only recognizes paths so you will need to convert any objects to paths before using the plug in.) As you make a shape select the fill color and turn off the Stroke Paint. The order in which you draw things is going to be the default order they get sewn in so you can either think about that now as you are drawing or adjust that later with the XML editor. ![]() ![]() Using the pen tool trace around the edges of each of the colors you plan on using.You can do this later as well so if you don't want to do it now don't worry about it. Now is a good time to set up a layer for each color you decided to use.For me I'm going to try and use different thread stitches to give the feeling of the shading in the prizmatic shard from Stardew Valley.(This didn't work out well I ended up going with 11 colors *Sigh*) So with this in mind take a look at your image and think about how you could simplify it and still get the point across. If you are designing your patch for mass production most vendors charge extra after 8 colors. My machine is a single color machine which means every time I use a color I have to change the thread and can make this very time consuming. Now you have to start making some tough artistic choices.This doesn't need to be exact just close enough for government work. Once your image is imported select it and using the arrows scale it until the pixels of your image are close to the pixel size of your grid.Then locate your inspiration image and import it.To do this select Import from the file menu.Now that we have the document all set up we are going to import our image.
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