When you say "join," does that mean by selecting everything and picking "union" in the path dialog? When I've done that before it gives me some kind of odd shapes in the middle of the outline that I have to go through and delete - but I may be missing another action I can use in...

Welcome!
In this case, I usually duplicate the drawing. Then I join all the parts of the lower object, and change the stroke as I like, aligning the two object one above the other.

@Brynn Yes, my blog is about sewing, knitting and so on. And about Inkscape, since I learn drawing with this useful software.

Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year to everybody!

@Inkspots For the animation I used Gimp, it's easy to make animations with Gimp, like this one:

@Brynn Thank you for your invitation, I will put a link to my blog in my forum signature.

Very beatiful drawings! Here it is my drawing with a little animation, and italian text!

Thank you for your words, you are very kind!
Here it is a banner I made for my blog, I have only changed the language, of course. My blog is in italian.

Very interesting tutorials! I have added the links of your tuts in the italian forum, they are an useful tool for those who likes Inkscape. Thank you for sharing with us!

This is my holiday clipart. I imported an image for kids without colours that I found in Internet, then I traced my drawing using colours and gradients.
Do you like it?

I understood what to do. You have to download the file locale for French language, but I didn't find it in Internet. This morning I downloaded a tutorial from 4shared, and then I decided to download an other file from the same account: http://www.4shared.com/dir/1c1Ac2RG/8_Inkscape_tutorials.html Th...

Nice logos and images! Inkscape is a great program, really! And you are very clever, indeed!

I have Windows XP Home, too and I'm using version 0.48.1. I'm italian and I often change the language into english, via Inkscape Preferences, as you wrote. But I can't change the language into french or spanish. I found how to do in this case in the inkscape Wiky: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index...

To make the grid, I used Tiled Clones, I draw a circle, and then in the Clone Tiling dialog I put Rows,Columns 1x10, Symmetry Simple translation, Scale per column -10. Then I draw a path in the middle. I duplicated the outcome, and then rotated it 90°. Then I grouped all the paths and put them on th...

I draw a Sphere, this my image:

Thank you for your replies. I think your suggestions about the eyes are right, but my knowledge about Inkscape is not as good as yours. I made the mask without eyes, and then I draw them, and I thought that it was better to make them white. I made what you suggested, and this is the outcome: http://...

I draw a mask, with Inkscape. I'm improving my knowledge about this good program.
Here is the mask:
What do you think about?
Thank you for your attention.

Thank you for you kindness, Papasue! I read your posts, and I enjoyed your drawings. I'm making sewing patterns with Inkscape, like this: http://www.4shared.com/file/L99mqSt9/ping.htm and this: http://www.4shared.com/file/ZmjtdtfQ/Ping2.html These are patterns for dolls, I've made some penguins for ...

Thank you fo your replies! Thanks brynn for your words about my english! I'm not very young, I'm 54 and I've studied english many years ago, bu now I'm reading english books, to improve my knowledge. My daughter is helping me, she knows english better! I'm trying designing the clothing itself, there...

I'm italian, I live near Venice and I'm trying to use Inkscape for drawing my dress models.
I'm trying, too, to improve my english. And this forum can help me for both the things!
Marina