#samplerbot

A request for @sovereignwitch. It appears that between their request and now the post they requested has been deleted, along with the OP's blog (@iwilleatyourenglish). However, Samplerbot had already created this sampler and added it to its queue, so the sampler survives.

DMC Color Key:

■310 Black

■519 Sky Blue

■703 Chartreuse

■946 Burnt Orange Medium

■ B5200 Snow White

Dimensions: 187 by 159 stitches. Font: 'Scriptorium.ttf' by jeti. Border: Adapted from 'Excelsior Fresco Stencils' by Geo. E. Watson Co, 1924.

The pattern repository is up-to-date!

I've also gone over Samplerbot's border collection and checked some dates; all but two of its vintage borders predate 1930, and so are in the public domain. Two of the borders, though, were from undated works-- ones that, stylistically, are pretty obviously pre-1930, but even so, I've gone ahead and replaced both of those borders with original designs. I would like to someday have all of Samplerbot's works be either public domain or Creative Commons, and this'll be a step in that direction.

aaaaaand the latest batch of PDFs are UP! All free/pay-what-you want, with both regular and Pattern Keeper versions.

Also I cannot believe the isopods one turned out legible-- I would have bet good money that that one would have rolled either a font with unconventional brackets & braces or one without them-- so I guess that's a win for the random-font-picking function 😄

Another batch of PDFs is up! Including what I think is the first appearance of 'untitled1.ttf', my first try at making a pixel font from a vintage stitched one. It's still a draft-- doesn't have quite all its symbols yet-- but it's looking swell so far!

One issue, though: I'm seeing a few alignment issues in this latest batch-- nothing severe, but a few of the fonts are being printed slightly too far down in the samplers. When I have time I'll see if I can figure out the root issue. It may not be coincidental that both the misaligned samplers are also printed fully in lowercase.

As always, thanks for looking! And happy stitching.

The pattern repository is up-to-date!

the pattern repository is once again up-to-date!

tomorrow is the one year anniversary of samplerbot's first official sampler... I may wax nostalgic then! But first I have to finish up the next update for the anniversary. :)

heyo! been busy! but i got four of the most recent samplers patternified and uploaded to the repository!

it's not up-to-date-- still another five to go-- but I'll get those as I have time.

also: I uploaded the pixel art PNGs up along with the PDFs. Will be doing that for all of the samplers moving forward-- so if you want to remix the designs, reuse the borders, etc, it'll be a lot easier now!

have a good night, stitchers.

The next batch of patterns is up in the repository!

Recent Samplerbot work has all been under-the-hood stuff-- cleaning up the way it handles and organizes assets, and spinning off the mockup maker into its own program that can convert any pixel art, not just samplers. I don't have a concrete use case for it yet, but it's fun to mess around with.

Thanks for checking out the bot, and I hope you all have a good weekend!