Another tutorial from someone asking how to do this.
This tutorial uses the following commands and assumes you know how to use the menus and tools and the functions they perform.
- Drawing with the circle tool
- Path > Object to path
- Effects > Generate from path > Pattern along path
- Changing settings
- Path > Dynamic Offset
- Resizing
- Select and Transform tool
- Duplicate
- Sending a design to the bottom
- Path > Difference
- Path > Union
