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Welcome to the Ink/Stitch beginner tutorial series.

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Ink/Stitch is an open source machine embroidery design platform based on Inkscape.

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Our goal is to be approachable for hobbyists while also providing the power needed by professional digitizers.

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In this tutorial series we are going through all important functions of Ink/Stitch.

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For each tutorial you will see the Ink/Stitch version used while recording.

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If you are using an other version of Ink/Stitch there might be some differences within the interface and functionality.

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In this case, we would appreciate if you would contact us through our github repository, so we can update the video for you.

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Also if things are going too fast or are not

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understandable for whatever reason,

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file an issue on github -

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because only then we can improve the video when it needs an update for a newer Ink/Stitch version.

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We will try to keep the videos up to date

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which sometimes is not an easy task

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since ink stitch is a very active project

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this will mean that some videos will be disappearing as it is not possible to keep the

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same URL for updated videos.

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We recommend to link to the tutorial playlist and not to the specific videos directly.

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The videos are not trying to teach digitizing for embroidery itself. There are much better resources for this

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These videos are meant to explain the Ink/Stitch way of creating embroidery files.

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If you don't know Inkscape, you might want to learn their basics first

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In these tutorials we often use shortcut keys.

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In the bottom right corner you will see in most videos a keyboard indicator.

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Be aware that some shortcut keys are individually set in the customize tutorial.

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Shortcut key combinations not mentioned in this video are native shortcut keys from Inkscape and can be used without any customization.

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Whenever you have questions or remarks you are welcome on GitHub to discuss your issue.

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We have a section on our homepage were you could publish your Ink/Stitch created designs.

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We are very curious to see, what you will create.

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Have fun with this tutorial series.

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We hope it will make it easy for you to express your creativity in stitched out designs.