Week 14

WildCard Week

Individual Assignment

  • Design and produce something with a digital process (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignment, documenting the requirements that your assignment meets, and including everything necessary to reproduce it.

Embroidery

This week was fun! I choose embroidery

Spent a few hours learning how to use Inkscape to edit a picture of Wilson. I briefly learned how to use inkscape in week 2, but hadn’t tried to edit colored images before so lots of learning. I used website to learn how to The goal for this week was to embroider Wilson’s face and name onto a pillowcase for my younger sister. With a combination of inkscape and ppt (filters), (I couldn’t find the inkscape filter I was looking for), I generated a couple of different colored options to embroider into a pillowcase. The input file is a jpeg/png.

Wilson Candid

Wilson Image 1 for Embroidery

Wilson Image 2 for Embroidery

Back-Up Option

I met with Gert to learn how to use the embroidery machine. He explained how to set up the machine and import a design. None of my colored designs worked; I needed to use fewer colors and create layers in the image so I could select one color at a time. Every new color requires a thread change. All of this makes sense now, but I wasn’t thinking about those things when I originally created the designs. As a result, the only design that worked was a black-and-white image I cleaned up from vinyl-cutting week.

Setting Up the Machine:

I was using a brother's sewing/embroidery machine

Threading the Needle and the Bobin:

It was superisingly simple, and the machine has numbers along the threading path making it easy to do.

Set-Up Complete

Green Light Go

I had to lower the foot down for the green light to turn on

Initial Progress:

Things looked okay, I could see some loose threading

Half-Way Done

Final Outcome:

It created a bit of a mess inside the machine

A little bit of googling and calling my mom who sews a lot now, it sounds like the tension settings needed to be adjusted to prevent the loose threads

Gert recommended that I use Adobe Image Editor instead of Inkscape to vectorize the image, select the number of colors to use, and layer them. I plan on get more into embroidery/sewing during Christmas break and will create my images that way.