Match Your Stitching Holes to ANY Pricking Iron in Illustrator! (My FOOLPROOF Method)

[@johnnyc.5979]

How many times have I come back here to "remember" how to do this? Too many times to count. Like this is the only video I found on KZbin that explains how to do stitching holes and a gusset. Great job, Justin!

[@humrang8218]

Great tutorial, one thing need to suggest, instead putting guides along with offsetted rect for gusset, you may convert that frame into guides by selecting the rect and choose "make guides" from the right click menue.

[@Waelfero]

Actually you can measure the length of any line in Illustrator and it very helpful in leather crafts. In the document panel, select object from the burger menu on the top right (check video 16:54), at the end of the first line that says paths you will find length and voila there you have it. Just do it before expanding the line. Doesn't matter if it's dashed or not. If you want to change the measuring units right click on the ruler and change it from there... cheers

[@sirfancykoala3170]

You, Sir, have saved me yet another long day of many infuriatingly useless Google searches. From the bottom of my technologically inadequate heart, Thank you!

[@eugene_mountainland]

When it comes to rounded corners and gusset developing, i like to increase the distance between holes a little. For example, we have 8 holes on a rounded corner. I usually (manually) make it 5.5 mm on a gusset instead of 5, so i can avoid unnecessary tention while stitching or gluing and then stitching. It's not always 5.5 mm tho, it depends. The bigger diameter of a corner, the less you wanna increase the distance. It's hard to explain, but i hope you got it) Anyway, thanks a lot for you Illustrator videos. I end up working in another program, but you were the one who gave me basics)

[@SleepWithCJ]

Holy Cow! What a great tutorial. The tip on counting holes is worth watching. I can't wait to make a pattern now. Something I've been avoiding for way too long.

[@hellotrucker399]

Out of all the leather tutorials I have watched since I started a few years ago I believe this one will elevate my leatherwork the most. Thank you so much for making this content. All your work is amazing.

[@sloppyjoe3617]

I've been working with Illustrator (and other Adobe products) since 1993 (I'm old) and I never knew about the document info box to find out how many holes! Oh, this makes me happy. Your method of designing patterns is exactly how I do it, right down to the measurement box you use for spacing. Great minds think alike. Thanks for the video!

[@misoman]

I attempt my own patterns...and don’t know why people don’t charge more for patterns, they are a pain! Thanks very much for this!

[@wilsontam5934]

Excellent and informative video. Finally someone who can show me how to use Adobe illustrator! Thanks again! Keep the awesome material coming.

[@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER]

Thanks for watching Wilson!

[@starkgeek]

So long and I hadn't seen this excellent tutorial. Thank you so much. Very good.

[@keyurpatel9472]

Perfect. before I stumble upon this video, I spent like whole day trying to figure out how I lay my holes. Thank you so much!!

[@AhmedHesham-tl2tz]

one of top Honest Informative Channel .. really u helped Me a lot .. Greeting from Egypt

[@analogstyle]

Glad to the see this! I have attempted doing this with angling the vertical bar glyph and using kerning between characters (also tried tracking.) It works great for my KS Blade irons until you hit a radius. Myriad Pro Regular: settings are 1.8mm font size, 1260 tracking, rotation -45° or 45°, depending on if I use reverse irons. I can the turn the type to outlines. Those settings work for my 3.85 spacing. Trial and error for sure. 😆 I also make spacer blocks and switch to “lineart” under view for visual alignment. Loved seeing you do that too! Definitely going to try your method, just wish you could make slashes, though I can make it work with dots. Thank you for taking the time for this video, unbelievable helpful!

[@joemanthei695]

Wow! Wow! Wow! I’ve always wondered how you make those patterns. I’ve never used Illustrator but tons of respect for your technical skills. Just Brilliant, Justin. Thank you for the peak behind the scenes! 👍

[@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER]

Thanks Joe! I look at people who draft with paper and pencil the same way haha. I do a lot of drawing at the beginning stage but as soon as I can move it to digital the better for me.

[@coltonmoser7046]

Man I should have watched this sooner. . . Live and learn.

[@黃惠溶]

Thanks to your tutorial! It’s really helpful for me. But I want to know how to transform the dots to the slash like the European style chisel?

[@kentgordner8344]

Hello. I truly appreciated the detail you went into to help out with this. Thank you very much. Question: I noticed that the dashed line with a round hole is perfect for a diamond Iron. Is there a way to create a slanted dashed line set up for a European Pricking Iron?

[@rather_be_camping]

Very informative. Thanx for sharing your knowledge and expertise. Have a blessed day

[@Steve01362]

I decided within 7 minutes that I’m going to continue to buy patterns. Great video though bro!

[@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER]

Haha completely understand that. Less computer more leather.

[@no-page]

Thanks, this is a very helpful tutorial! I don't use Illustrator, but I found that the same techniques work in Affinity Designer. (Dot spacing is tricker as it is based on stroke thickness; set your stroke to 1mm, then spacing works out to mm, though.) I would like to offer a tip: You don't have to do all that cutting and joining. If you use the direct select tool, you can resize objects easily, like when you extend your first dotted line, when you shorten the same dotted line, and when you shorten your gusset. That will save you a lot of time.

[@madelinegrudens]

This was so helpful - I'm making leather sandals and I wanted to create a prong pattern guide in illustrator (to stitch around the sole) - I set my stroke to .0313 " and my cap to round, dash to zero and gap to .1969 " (5 mm) and my pronging fork fit perfectly - THANK YOU!!! This was a great tutorial for when I make my tooled journal cover and bag!!!

[@lazy3leathercompany-LZ3]

This video is so helpful! Thank you.

[@mustaphadaniels3994]

Hi. Thank you so much for making the video. It explained everything I needed to know. Is it possible for you to make one with sketchbook app for android phones. ?

[@Thienan826]

Hi, can you kindly do the tilt stitch tutortial if possible please? Truly appreciated 😊

[@nancyribes2627]

Thanks for this tutorial! I am new to adobe illustrator so I am still learning! But, I know, once I can do everything you described in this video I will be able to create many things. Thanks again!

[@gibsonleather5835]

This is outstanding. You'd make a great teacher, Justin. I'd bet video courses in applying Adobe Creative Cloud programs to leathercraft would do well.

[@ksrunt]

Great tutorial. Thanks, Justin.

[@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER]

Thanks Kristin!

[@theodds7028]

this is the great lesson!thank you so much.you are so generous and a good teacher.😀

[@mihaibercea3307]

I was searching for ages some kind of tutorial for stitching lines and i figured it out by myself eventually. What i really need next is a tutorial for fitting large patterns in a4 pages for printing.. can you make it please ?

[@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER]

If you are interested in the "poster printing" method there is a video I believe on Stock and Barrel or Claridge (maybe both). I manually cut my pieces to fit (A4 and Letter). Didnt think it would be interesting to people but would consider a video for it.

[@mihaibercea3307]

@@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER i also use illustrator for pattern design and after i make my pattern i try to fit it on artboards. The problem is that when you print the design on paper, the printer creates a gap around the edge of the paper, so when you put the pattern back together you have missing lines ( eg : missing dots and gaps where the stitch line should be )

[@dougsobel2571]

This is excellent. My question is, how do I create slits at a 45 degree angle instead of the dots like what a stitching iron makes

[@anzali32023]

Bro I Love this tution, I have learned a lot how to do my design on Illustrator, did my first project and turn out to be great work, good thing about designing your own pattern is that will be uniqu . thank you

[@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER]

Awesome I love to hear that!

[@reghardtlabuschagne819]

Thank you so much!!This helped me so MUCH!

[@dragospavel512]

Hi, thanks for this tutorial. Need a little help: think i should make some sets cause my Illustrator interface doesnt look like yours... Thank you

[@viroslav21]

Thanks, this is a very helpful tutorial! French Style Pricking İron 3.85 Please. Thank You

[@paulidevoss7249]

Love this! Thanks so much 👍

[@WyrmhideLeather]

You can save time on your draw a block step, by setting the number of divisions on your grid to 10 instead of 8, thereby making each sub-grid line 1mm...

[@CraftingALifeIWant]

I am just getting into pattern making with AI and this video was extremely helpful. I've never had any formal training with AI and you helped close some loops and fill a lot of gaps in both details as well as sequencing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@Jinxid77]

This is absolutely epic, I was wanting to make a pattern for some very specific tools, this will hopefully make it less of a stab in the dark! :)

[@joshuabugarin5089]

Can you also make a video on how to make french style stitches in illustrator?

[@JohnMarshall-yq6zq]

Amazing explanation 😁

[@NMiller_]

Since the stitch line typically defines the "finished" dimension, would it be easier to create the stitch line first and use dimensions divisible by your spacing, then offset your cut line from the stitch line? Just a thought.

[@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER]

I think I follow. From my experience that works well with straight lines with 90 degree angles however the curves really skew the final line measurements. Maybe its just an illustrator thing but looking at the line length it comes out to a bizarre uneven number.

[@Sala7ayano]

Any pricking iron made my expect to see how this is done if you are using a French and Japanese pricking irons too.

[@reflejogris100]

🔥 Muchas gracias ! Maestro

[@indigoglass6638]

Thank you !

[@alexfletcher965]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! :)

[@marcadecouro7276]

Por favor, onde encontro o PDF com o molde dessa bolsa? Gostaria de fazer uma!

[@flatdog-]

Thank you

[@tnoni8a]

Awesome tutorial! Much appreciated... any chance you can make those dots into slanted lines like french pricking irons?

[@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER]

Thanks! Yes it is doable however only with straight lines and 90 degree angles. I havent found a reliable way to do the curves yet where Illustrator doesnt alter the spacing by itself.

[@paulporter6874]

​@@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER doing curves with slanted lines is pretty easy if you know how to use illustrator (have been using illustrator for about 20 years). also this way can be used to create any stitch line. i will try and do a video on it if and when i get time.

[@aarongooodwin7413]

@@paulporter6874 would appreciate this!

[@dejansimic3288]

Why not use the "Blend Tool" to lay down the holes along the path?

[@jacobe23able]

How you export it in PDF with the correct size of the pattern?

[@randomscandinavian6094]

I tried to make a pattern brush for the slanted tips of my KS Blade chisels but realized after a lot of work that Illustrator cheats and alters the spacing between each hole, even though you set it to maintain the distance at 100%. Perhaps the solution is out there somewhere. If it worked you could simply take any stroked line and then choose for it to have your saved stitching pattern. For the time being I simply have a long premade strip of perfect slanted stitch marks with the correct width and spacing and I move and copy that around in a separate layer. Which works fine but rounded corners takes a bit of extra manual alignment.

[@MAKESUPPLYLEATHER]

Yeah I need to figure out how to do that. I got close a few years back using a "find and replace" script as well as "transform each" to bend around curves but it was never reliable. The way you do it is the best way. Its the dang curves that are the problem.

[@ivantomassini5672]

Ma si può salvare in SVG?

[@CristianTudorache]

why do you use the correct units of measurement ? :)

[@bradleywhite4902]

Can someone please tell me what I’m doing wrong. When I take the file to light burn it sees the dashed line as a solid line?

[@Nomad-bi6su]

need to expand line. its in this video.

[@jaimeoviedo196]

:( Thanks for the video and the help, I started working with leather for 1 year and I loved it, but I have a problem that I cannot solve, I have printed the model to take it to leather and it subtracts 0.5 cm from all the dimensions If I draw a line and it is on the computer, it measures 15 cm when printing and measuring, the dimension is 14.5. I have tried all the ways to print the document and nothing, someone help me please, so far I make my molds by hand with the help of preforms for contours and lines that are not straight, but I would like to be able to professionalize the models even more and I believe that Ai is the alternative that I liked the most, I am already grateful for the help provided.

[@josh88113]

I wonder if this will work in gimp

[@yeasinfarhad1261]

Wowwww Bhummmmm

[@nikoss1179]

You're overcomplicating it. To get the correct gusset length with your 65 dots and a 5mm gap would be 64x5 (total dots minus 1) which gives you length of 320mm. Length of rectangle would be 320mm plus 6mm (3mm spacing each side). So total gusset width would be 326mm. Much faster with math. Additionally, if you do it your way, another trick to save time for the gusset length would be to group the 65 dots, look at the properties menu for the length and then add the 6mm.

[@WyrmhideLeather]

Totally agree, the math is much faster at this stage and then just create it the right size.