Each line has a starting and ending point. The lines you are seeing are jump stitches between consecutive lines if they are not organized well. You will want to use jump stitches as less as possible. The black border could be done with only two jump stitches (to the inside circles). There are two ways to achieve this. One is manually organize your running stitches or you can use an automated tool (https://inkstitch.org/docs/stroke-tools/#autoroute-running-stitch).
Just to be sure, do you want the outline to be a zigzag stitch?
Oh okay that makes sense. Thank you so much!!! I recently ran the feature to change the border to Satin stitch. Is there a more preferred pattern for borders?
Oh, I should have noticed it was satin not zigzag. You can actually distinguish those too quite easily. I was just looking at the size of it. The width is pretty small which would make a bean stitch a better choice. For a satin try not to go below 1 mm or better not below 1.5 mm. Otherwise it is well recommended to use satins for borders.
Embroidery and InkStitch Thread going across design
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Hi, I am brand new to all of this. I just designed something and the outline threads seem to be going across some of the design. Is this normal?
Thank you!
Check if display mode isn't set to normal. If il is, feel free to share the .svg for examination.
edit : sorry i didn't realize this topic was in inkstich section.
Each line has a starting and ending point. The lines you are seeing are jump stitches between consecutive lines if they are not organized well. You will want to use jump stitches as less as possible. The black border could be done with only two jump stitches (to the inside circles). There are two ways to achieve this. One is manually organize your running stitches or you can use an automated tool (https://inkstitch.org/docs/stroke-tools/#autoroute-running-stitch).
Just to be sure, do you want the outline to be a zigzag stitch?
Oh okay that makes sense. Thank you so much!!! I recently ran the feature to change the border to Satin stitch. Is there a more preferred pattern for borders?
Oh, I should have noticed it was satin not zigzag. You can actually distinguish those too quite easily. I was just looking at the size of it. The width is pretty small which would make a bean stitch a better choice. For a satin try not to go below 1 mm or better not below 1.5 mm. Otherwise it is well recommended to use satins for borders.
If you try to route a satin... there is a tool for this one too: https://inkstitch.org/docs/satin-tools/#auto-route-satin-columns
Okay that is great to know! I noticed my satin stitch was very thin so it is good to know I need to make them thicker! Thank you so much!!!
I just took a massive dive down the rabbit hole on thread trims/jumps and how to take control...
This video has all the details...
https://youtu.be/ct22RfLfJwM?si=3FAo-nIMni8CzR8t
Have a look over here: https://inkstitch.org/tutorials/routing/
I've put together a list of tools for path optimization. Hope that helps?