Hello darlings!
In June I published my 'Make Your Own Digital Pattern' post, but I thought it was due an update now that I've found a FREE alternative to illustrator! However, this instructional is only about how to transfer and scale your pattern in Inkscape (the Illustrator alternative), so if you want the rest of the instructions (how to trace your pattern) refer to the previous post.
There is one addendum I would make on the previous post: on procreate, I would suggest a fine line brush as opposed to monoline as monoline can only go so small and comes out quite chunky when printed.
Onto the tutorial!
1. Trace pattern
2. Open inkscape. Select an A4 page.
3. Create a grid of A4s.
Select the rectangle tool.
Make a rectangle as big as the page. If it's filled, bottom left make it transparent. Enable snapping.
Zoom out (minus on keyboard), make a grid outside the page. Make as many as you think you'll need, you can always remove some later.
Select all and right click to group for now.
4. Import your pattern.
5. Make it the right scale.
Select a straight line on your paper pattern and measure it. If there's no straight lines, measure how tall something is.
I'm choosing the CF of my pattern which measures 10.8cm (108mm).
Choose the pen tool (make sure 'bezier' is mentioned somewhere).
Draw a random horizontal/vertical line. You can check the angle at the bottom, double click to finish the line.
Select the pen again and in the top alter the width to your scale, in my case 108mm. You can change the unit of measurement in the scroll wheel.
To scale your image evenly, select object, transform and scale. Make sure the scale evenly box is checked.
Rescale until your chosen line matches your inserted line of the right left. I've found the scale option to be glitchy, always add .000 to your chosen scale and if you need to reset input 100.000.
This doesn't always work perfectly so make sure the scale has actually come out correctly when you print.
Delete the line.
6. Separate pattern pieces.
Copy and paste your pattern as many times as many pattern pieces that you have. It's very important now that the pattern is the right scale that you don't resize it at any point.
Select the pen tool again and surround a pattern piece.
Select both and then go to object-clip-set clip.
This should separate the pattern piece.
Do the same for all the pattern pieces.
7. Arrange the pattern pieces on your grid.
8. If you want to add page numbers/cutting lines/ page alignment marks add them at this point.
To add arrows to lines right click, fill & stroke, stroke style and add arrows to ends.
To add even page alignments: draw a line the length of the page with/height and rescale to about 60%. Add page markings at the end of the line then centre on your page.
9. Add the number of pages that are in your grid
Select the pages tool and add pages at the top left.
10. Add pattern to pages
Group everything together.
Arrange the pages in the same way as your grid.
Place over the top.
You may need to add a white rectangle behind each page if the clipping means the white background isn't even.
11. Save as PDF
12. Finalise in canva
Add your logo, the name of the pattern piece and page numbers. I've also added each size in-between the markings.
13. Export the final file as a PDF.
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And there you have it! This is just as much for me as it is for anyone else, so let me know if you have any improvements or questions!
Until next time,
Aisha x
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