Help Cleaning up Dingbats for cutting

Follow on from yesterdays lesson "

HELP using dingbats with scal via inkscape".

I thought i would show you

how to clean up the fonts for cutting on sure cuts a lot

as really some of the things can be insane to cut .
They cut all these lines that no way can you glue in place
LETS BEGIN
You have broken your design apart and in outline mode (other lesson)

Looking at this font that the black spots are a mess for cutting and
not needed as well as in side the flower so here goes

Center of the flower, all these pieces are just little slits when cut and no way
you can paste on the cut piece so we remove and clean up a center for this,
at the same time i will remove the grass it will look silly as black background squiggle

We work mainly with the node button and the "-"

But first you have to highlight all bits not needed and delete
BUT leave one

With the node tool you highlight the nodes (squares ) one at a
time and stretch them in to place (sometimes you might need to move around
the little circles either side of the squares to get the shaping right
NOT AS SCARY AS IT SOUNDS GIVE IT A TRY)

Keep stretching out the nodes (if you need to add another node you
just double click on the line and it will add one so you can shape it easier)

Now the center of the flower will look like something that can be put together much easier after cutting

Now the grass at the sides

With the node tool on you can highlight a heap of nodes
all at one by selecting them all (holding the mouse key down and
selecting them by moving the mouse over them )

They will turn blue

while they are blue push the delete selected nodes button

And it will take them away
(just need to tidy up a few much easier than one at a time)

Highlight the few stray ones

and delete selected nodes button

Looks good but i have one stray node that needs fixing
(easy done one at time)

Highlight that one node and delete selected node button

when you are happy with it

I did the same for the leaf , as i did for the center of the flower

Then i Straightened up the spots the same way and now i am ready for using
the other lessons to make my cut file

NOW TO either of the lessons
Double lines,
black base part 1 ,
part 2,