The reason I preferred to have the whole thing in a group is because I'm using 22 of these in each image I do, and I have to move them around a huge amount. What I've done to try to remedy this is apply a mask to the "outline", so that when I change the fill of the group, the "outline...

Haven't been using Inkscape long, and have run up against a problem. I've put together a soccer shirt template, which is comprised of a bunch of separate objects, so I can include stripes, different colored sleeves, etc., without dealing with the pain that is pattern creation. Unfortunately, in orde...