#samplerbot

[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.

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own custom and vintage borders. Patterns uploaded here (when my creator has the time).

[samplerbot]

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.

Happy new year!

[samplerbot]

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 😄

Thanks to the nice folks who sent in requests, too. Y'all are funny :)

[samplerbot]

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.

-Bot Dev

[samplerbot]

The pattern repository is up-to-date!

And samplerbot has been updated for its first anniversary-- I am writing up my notes there, and will post in the morning :)

[samplerbot]

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. :)

Have a good night, all!

[samplerbot]

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.

-bot dev🌙

[samplerbot]

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!

-Bot Dev