IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

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2 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS When using this mhine, si sfety preutions should lwys e tken, inluding the following: Red ll instrutions efore using. DANGER - To redue the risk of eletri shok: 1. The mhine should never e left unttended while plugged in. Alwys unplug the mhine from the eletril outlet immeditely fter using nd efore lening. WARNING - To redue the risk of urns, fire, eletri shok, or injury to persons: 1. Do not llow this mhine to e used s toy. Close ttention is neessry when the mhine is used y or ner hildren. 2. Use this mhine only for its intended use s desried in this mnul. Use only essories reommended y the mnufturer s ontined in this mnul. 3. Never operte this mhine if it hs dmged ord or plug, if it is not working properly, if it hs een dropped or dmged, or dropped into wter. Return the mhine to the nerest uthorized deler or servie enter for exmintion, repir, eletril or mehnil djustment. 4. Never operte the mhine with ny ir openings loked. Keep ventiltion openings of the mhine nd foot ontrol free from the umultion of lint, dust, nd loose loth. 5. Never drop or insert ny ojet into ny opening. 6. Do not use outdoors. 7. Do not operte where erosol (spry) produts re eing used or where oxygen is eing dministered. 8. To disonnet, turn the min swith to the symol position whih represents off, then remove plug from outlet. 9. Do not unplug y pulling on ord. To unplug, grsp the plug, not the ord. 10. Keep fingers wy from ll moving prts. Speil re is required round the mhine needle. 11. Alwys use the proper needle plte. The wrong plte n use the needle to rek. 12. Do not use ent needles. 13. Do not pull or push fri while stithing. It my deflet the needle using it to rek. 14. Swith the mhine to the symol position when mking ny djustments in the needle re, suh s threding needle, hnging needle, threding oin, or hnging presser foot, nd the like. 15. Alwys unplug the mhine from the eletril outlet when removing overs, luriting, or when mking ny other user serviing djustments mentioned in the instrution mnul. 16. This sewing mhine is not intended for use y young hildren or infirm persons without supervision. 17. Young hildren should e supervised to ensure tht they do not ply with this mhine. 18. If the light unit is dmged, it must e repled y uthorized deler. 19. Hold the foot ontroller plug when rewinding into ord reel. Do not llow the plug to whip when rewinding. SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS This mhine is intended for household use. i

3 FOR USERS IN THE UK, EIRE, MALTA AND CYPRUS ONLY If this mhine is fitted with three-pin non-rewirele BS plug then plese red the following. IMPORTANT If the ville soket outlet is not suitle for the plug supplied with this equipment, it should e ut off nd n pproprite three-pin plug fitted. With lterntive plugs n pproved fuse must e fitted in the plug. NOTE The plug served from the min led must e destroyed s plug with red flexile ords is hzrdous if engged in live soket outlet. In the event of repling the plug fuse, use fuse pproved y ASTA to BS 1362, i.e. rrying the mrk, rting s mrked on plug. Alwys reple the fuse over, never use plugs with the fuse over omitted. WARNING DO NOT CONNECT EITHER WIRE TO THE EARTH TERMINAL WHICH IS MARKED WITH THE LETTER E, BY THE EARTH SYMBOL OR COLOURED GREEN OR GREEN AND YELLOW. The wires in this min led re oloured in ordne with the following ode: Blue Brown Neutrl Live As the olours of the wiring in the min led of this ppline my not orrespond with the oloured mrkings identifying the terminls in your plug, proeed s follows. The wire whih is oloured lue must e onneted to the terminl whih is mrked with the letter N or oloured lk or lue. The wire whih is oloured rown must e onneted to the terminl whih is mrked with the letter L or oloured red or rown. ii

4 Federl Communitions Commission (FCC) Delrtion of Conformity (For USA Only) Responsile Prty: Brother Interntionl Corportion 100 Somerset Corporte Boulevrd Bridgewter, NJ USA TEL : (908) delres tht the produt Produt Nme: Model Numer: Brother Sewing Mhine Innov-ís 4000D/NV4000D omplies with Prt 15 of the FCC Rules. Opertion is sujet to the following two onditions: (1) this devie my not use hrmful interferene, nd (2) this devie must ept ny interferene reeived, inluding interferene tht my use undesired opertion. This equipment hs een tested nd found to omply with the limits for Clss B digitl devie, pursunt to Prt 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits re designed to provide resonle protetion ginst hrmful interferene in residentil instlltion. This equipment genertes, uses, nd n rdite rdio frequeny energy nd, if not instlled nd used in ordne with the instrutions, my use hrmful interferene to rdio ommunitions. However, there is no gurntee tht interferene will not our in prtiulr instlltion. If this equipment does use hrmful interferene to rdio or television reeption, whih n e determined y turning the equipment off nd on, the user is enourged to try to orret the interferene y one or more of the following mesures: Reorient or relote the reeiving ntenn Inrese the seprtion etween the equipment nd reeiver. Connet the equipment into n outlet on iruit different from tht to whih the reeiver is onneted. Consult the deler or n experiened rdio/tv tehniin for help. The enlosed interfe le should e used in order to ensure ompline with the limits for Clss B digitl devie. Chnges or modifitions not expressly pproved y Brother Industries, Ltd. ould void the user's uthority to operte the equipment. iii

5 CONGRATULATIONS ON CHOOSING OUR MACHINE Your mhine is the most dvned omputerized household emroidery nd sewing mhine. To fully enjoy ll the fetures inorported, we suggest tht you study the mnul. PLEASE READ BEFORE USING THIS MACHINE For sfe opertion 1. Be sure to keep your eye on the needle while sewing. Do not touh the hndwheel, thred tke-up, needle, or other moving prts. 2. Rememer to turn off the power swith nd unplug the ord when: Opertion is ompleted Repling or removing the needle or ny other prts A power filure ours during use Mintining the mhine Leving the mhine unttended. 3. Do not store nything on the foot ontroller. 4. Plug the mhine diretly into the wll. Do not use extension ords. For longer servie life 1. When storing this mhine, void diret sunlight nd high humidity lotions. Do not use or store the mhine ner spe heter, iron, hlogen lmp, or other hot ojets. 2. Use only neutrl sops or detergents to len the se. Benzene, thinner, nd souring powders n dmge the se nd mhine, nd should never e used. 3. Do not drop or hit the mhine. 4. Alwys onsult the opertion mnul when repling or instlling ny ssemlies, the presser feet, needle, or other prts to ssure orret instlltion. For repir or djustment In the event mlfuntion ours or djustment is required, first follow the trouleshooting tle in the k of the opertion mnul to inspet nd djust the mhine yourself. If the prolem persists, plese onsult your lol uthorized Brother deler. For dditionl produt informtion nd updtes, visit our we site t The ontents of this mnul nd speifitions of this produt re sujet to hnge without notie. iv

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7 WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THIS MACHINE SPECIAL FEATURES Chek opertions nd view dvie on the lrge LCD (liquid rystl disply). Prepre the oin thred with one touh. The utomti thred tension mkes tril sewing unneessry. Automti threding mkes threding quik nd esy. Getting Redy To lern the opertion of the prinipl prts nd the sreens Sewing Bsis To lern how to prepre for sewing nd si sewing opertions Chpter 1 Chpter 2 Pge 7 Pge 37 Utility Stithes Pre-progrmmed with more thn 100 frequently used stithes Emroidery Chrter/Deortive Stithes The vriety of stithes widen your retivity Chpter 3 Chpter 4 Mximum 30 m x 18 m (pprox. 12 x 7 inhes) for lrge emroidery designs Emroidery Edit Designs n e omined, rotted or enlrged Chpter 5 Chpter 6 Pge 125 Pge 175 My Custom Stith Crete originl deortive stithes Pge 47 Pge 97 Appendix Cring for your mhine nd deling with errors nd mlfuntions Chpter 7 Chpter 8 Pge 199 Pge 209 vi

8 HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL Chpter 1 nd Chpter 2 explin your sewing mhine s si opertion proedures for someone who is using the sewing mhine for the first time. If you wnt to sew utility stithes or hrter/ deortive stithes, red Chpter 1 nd Chpter 2, then go on to Chpter 3 (Utility Stithes) or Chpter 4 (Chrter/ Deortive Stithes). When you re redy to egin using the emroidery funtion fter reding Chpter 1 nd Chpter 2, proeed to Chpter 5 (Emroidery). One you understnd the steps explined in Chpter 5, go on to Chpter 6 (Emroidery Edit) for n explntion out the onvenient emroidery edit funtions. In the sreens tht pper in the step-y-step diretions the prts tht re used for the opertion re shown in. Compre the sreen in the diretions with the tul sreen, nd rry out the opertion. If, while using the mhine, you experiene something you do not understnd, or there is funtion you would like to know more out, refer to the index t the k of the opertion mnul in onjuntion with the tle of ontents to find the setion of the mnul you should refer to. Chpter 3 To sew utility stithes To sew hrter or deortive stithes Chpter 1 Chpter 2 Chpter 4 To do mhine emroidery Chpter 1 Chpter 2 Chpter 5 Chpter 6 vii

9 Contents viii CONTENTS IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS...i WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THIS MACHINE...vi HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL...vii NAMES OF MACHINE PARTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS...1 Mhine... 1 Needle nd Presser Foot Setion... 2 Emroidery Unit... 2 Opertion Buttons... 3 Inluded Aessories... 3 Options... 6 Chpter 1 Getting Redy 7 TURNING THE MACHINE ON/OFF...8 LCD SCREEN...9 Using the Mhine Setting Mode Key Using the Mhine Opertion Mode Key Using the Pttern Explntion Key LOWER THREADING...19 Winding the Boin Setting the Boin Pulling Up the Boin Thred UPPER THREADING...25 Threding Using the Automti Threding Button Threding Mnully Using the Twin Needle Mode Using Threds tht Unwind Quikly CHANGING THE PRESSER FOOT...32 Removing the Presser Foot Atthing the Presser Foot Atthing the Wlking Foot CHANGING THE NEEDLE...34 Chpter 2 Sewing Bsis 37 SEWING...38 Sewing Stith Sewing Reinforement Stithes Sewing Curves Chnging Sewing Diretion Sewing Hevyweight Fris Sewing Lightweight Fris STITCH SETTINGS...42 Setting the Stith Width Setting the Stith Length Setting the Thred Tension USEFUL FUNCTIONS...44 Automti Reinforement Stithing Automti Thred Cutting Loking the Sreen Chpter 3 Utility Stithes 47 SELECTING UTILITY STITCHES...48 Seleting Stith Sving Your Stith Settings Using the Sewing Type Seletion Key SEWING THE STITCHES...53 Stright Stithes Drt Sem Gthering Flt Fell Sem Pintuk Zigzg Stithes Elsti Zigzg Stithes Oversting Quilting Blind Hem Stithes Appliqué...73 Shelltuk Stithes...74 Sllop Stithes...75 Top Stithing...75 Smoking Stithes...76 Fgoting...76 Tpe or Elsti Atthing...77 Heirloom...78 One-step Buttonholes...80 Four-step Buttonholes...84 Br Tks...88 Button Sewing...90 Eyelet...92 Multi-diretionl Sewing (Stright Stith nd Zigzg Stith)..93 Zipper Insertion...94 Chpter 4 Chrter/Deortive Stithes 97 SELECTING STITCH PATTERNS Seleting Deortive Stith Ptterns/7mm Deortive Stith Ptterns/Stin Stith Ptterns/7mm Stin Stith Ptterns/Cross Stith/Utility Deortive Stith Ptterns Alphet Chrters SEWING STITCH PATTERNS Sewing Attrtive Finishes Bsi Sewing Mking Adjustments EDITING STITCH PATTERNS Chnging the Size Chnging the Length (for 7mm Stin Stith Ptterns Only)..107 Creting Vertil Mirror Imge Creting Horizontl Mirror Imge Sewing Pttern Continuously Chnging Thred Density (for Stin Stith Ptterns Only) Cheking the Imge COMBINING STITCH PATTERNS Before Comining Comining Vrious Stith Ptterns Comining Lrge nd Smll Stith Ptterns Comining Horizontl Mirror Imge Stith Ptterns Comining Stith Ptterns of Different Length Mking Step Stith Ptterns (for 7mm Stin Stith Ptterns Only) USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Stith Dt Preutions Sving Stith Ptterns in the Mhine s ry Sving Stith Ptterns to USB Medi (Commerilly Aville) Sving Stith Ptterns in the Computer Retrieving Stith Ptterns from the Mhine s ry Relling from USB Medi Relling from the Computer Chpter 5 Emroidery 125 BEFORE EMBROIDERING Emroidery Step y Step Atthing Emroidery Foot W Atthing the Emroidery Unit SELECTING PATTERNS Seleting Emroidery Ptterns/Heirloom Ptterns/Border Ptterns/Cross stith Ptterns/Florl lphet Ptterns Seleting Alphet Chrter Ptterns Seleting Frme Ptterns Seleting Ptterns from Emroidery Crds Seleting Ptterns from USB medi/computer VIEWING THE SEWING SCREEN PREPARING THE FABRIC Atthing Iron-on Stilizers (king) to the Fri...138

10 Hooping the Fri in the Emroidery Frme Emroidering Smll Fris or Fri Edges ATTACHING THE EMBROIDERY FRAME CONFIRMING THE PATTERN POSITION Cheking the Pttern Position Previewing the Completed Pttern SEWING AN EMBROIDERY PATTERN Sewing Attrtive Finishes Sewing Emroidery Ptterns Sewing Emroidery Ptterns Whih Use Appliqué ADJUSTMENTS DURING THE EMBROIDERY PROCESS If the Boin Runs Out of Thred If the Thred Breks During Sewing Restrting from the Beginning Resuming Emroidery After Turning Off the Power MAKING EMBROIDERY ADJUSTMENTS Adjusting Thred Tension Using the Automti Thred Cutting Funtion (END COLOR TRIM) Using the Thred Trimming Funtion (JUMP STITCH TRIM) 155 Adjusting the Emroidery Speed Chnging the Thred Color Disply Chnging the Emroidery Frme Disply REVISING THE PATTERN Chnging the Pttern Position Aligning the Pttern nd the Needle Chnging the Size Rotting the Pttern Creting Horizontl Mirror Imge Chnging the Density (Alphet Chrter nd Frme Ptterns Only) Chnging the Colors of Alphet Chrter Ptterns USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Emroidery Dt Preutions Sving Emroidery Ptterns in the Mhine s ry Sving Emroidery Ptterns to USB Medi (Commerilly Aville) Sving Emroidery Ptterns in the Computer Retrieving Ptterns from the Mhine s ry Relling from USB Medi Relling from the Computer EMBROIDERY APPLICATIONS Using Frme Pttern to Mke n Appliqué (1) Using Frme Pttern to Mke n Appliqué (2) Chpter 6 Emroidery Edit 175 EXPLANATION OF FUNCTIONS SELECTING PATTERNS TO EDIT Seleting Emroidery Ptterns/Heirloom Ptterns/Border Ptterns/Cross stith Ptterns/Florl Alphet Ptterns/Frme Ptterns Seleting Alphet Chrter Ptterns EDITING PATTERNS Moving the Pttern Rotting the Pttern Chnging the Size of the Pttern Deleting the Pttern Chnging the Configurtion of Alphet Chrter Ptterns 185 Chnging Alphet Chrter Sping Chnging the Color of Eh Alphet Chrter in Pttern Chnging the Thred Color Creting Custom Thred Tle Choosing Color from the Custom Thred Tle Designing Repeted Ptterns After Editing COMBINING PATTERNS Editing Comined Ptterns Sewing Comined Ptterns USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Contents Chpter 7 MY CUSTOM STITCH 199 DESIGNING A STITCH ENTERING STITCH DATA USING STORED CUSTOM STITCHES Storing Custom Stithes in Your List Retrieving Stored Stithes Chpter 8 Appendix 209 CARE AND MAINTENANCE Clening the LCD Sreen Clening the Mhine Csing Clening the Re ADJUSTING THE SCREEN Sreen Visiility is Low Touh Pnel is Mlfuntioning TROUBLESHOOTING ERROR MESSAGES SPECIFICATIONS UPGRADING YOUR MACHINE S SOFTWARE. 224 Upgrde Proedure Using USB Medi Upgrde Proedure Using Computer STITCH SETTING CHART INDEX ix

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12 NAMES OF MACHINE PARTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS NAMES OF MACHINE PARTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS The nmes of the vrious prts of the sewing mhine nd their funtions re desried elow. Before using the sewing mhine, refully red these desriptions to lern the nmes of the mhine prts. Mhine Front View Right-side/Rer View on nm ml lk j ih ji kj d e f m k g i d ed fe hg gf h l Top over Open the top over to thred the mhine nd wind the oin. Thred utter Pss the threds through the thred utter to ut them. Thred tke-up lever hek window Look through the window to hek the upper thred pssing through in it. d Flt ed tthment with essory omprtment Store presser feet nd oins in the essory omprtment of the flt ed tthment. When sewing ylindril piees, remove the flt ed tthment. e Opertion uttons (6 uttons) nd sewing speed ontroller Use these uttons nd the slide to operte the sewing mhine. f Knee lifter slot Insert the knee lifter into the slot. g Knee lifter Use the knee lifter to rise nd lower the presser foot. h LCD (liquid rystl disply) Settings for the seleted stith nd error messges pper in the LCD. i Thred guide plte Pss the thred round the thred guide plte when threding upper thred. j Spool p Use the spool p to hold the spool in ple. k Spool pin Ple spool of thred on the spool pin. l Boin winder Use the oin winder when winding the oin. m Supplementl spool pin Use this spool pin to wind the oin thred, or to sew with the twin needle. n Thred guide for oin winding Pss the thred round this thred guide when winding the oin thred. o Pretension disk Pss the thred round the pretension disk when winding the oin thred. Hndle Crry the sewing mhine y its hndle when trnsporting the mhine. Hndwheel Turn the hndwheel towrd you to rise nd lower the needle. The wheel should e turned towrd the front of the mhine. Emroidery rd slot Insert the emroidery rds (sold seprtely) into the emroidery rd slot. d USB port onnetor for medi In order to send ptterns from/to USB medi, plug the USB medi diretly into the USB port onnetor. e USB port onnetor for omputer In order to import/export ptterns etween omputer nd the mhine, plug the USB le into the USB port onnetor. f Touh pen holder Use the touh pen holder to hold the touh pen when not in use. g Min power swith Use the min power swith to turn the sewing mhine ON nd OFF. h Jk onnetor Insert the power ord into the onnetor jk. i Feed dog position swith Use the feed dog position swith to lower the feed dogs. j Presser foot lever Rise nd lower the presser foot lever to rise nd lower the presser foot. k Air vent The ir vent llows the ir surrounding the motor to irulte. Do not over the ir vent while the sewing mhine is eing used. l Foot ontroller with retrtle ord Depress the foot ontroller to ontrol the speed of the mhine. m Foot ontroller jk Insert the foot ontroller plug into its jk on the mhine. 1

13 NAMES OF MACHINE PARTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS Needle nd Presser Foot Setion Emroidery Unit i f e g e f d h d Presser foot holder The presser foot is tthed onto the presser foot holder. Presser foot The presser foot pplies pressure onsistently on the fri s sewing tkes ple. Atth the pproprite presser foot for the seleted stith. Feed dogs The feed dogs feed the fri in the sewing diretion. d Boin over Open the oin over to set the oin. e Needle lmp srew Use the needle lmp srew to hold the needle in ple. f Buttonhole lever The uttonhole lever is used with the one-step uttonhole foot to rete uttonholes. g Needle r thred guides Pss the upper thred through the two needle r thred guides. h Needle plte The needle plte is mrked with guides to help sew stright sems. i Presser foot holder srew Use the presser foot holder srew to hold the presser foot in ple. Crrige The rrige moves the emroidery frme utomtilly when emroidering. Relese utton (loted under the emroidery unit) Press the relese utton to remove the emroidery unit. Feed dog position swith Use the feed dog position swith to rise nd lower the feed dogs while the emroidery unit is tthed. d Emroidery unit onnetion Insert the emroidery unit onnetion into the onnetion port when tthing the emroidery unit. e Emroidery frme holder Insert the emroidery frme into the emroidery frme holder to hold the frme in ple. f Frme-seuring lever Press the frme-seuring lever down to seure the emroidery frme. CAUTION After the emroidery frme is set in the frme holder, e sure the frme-seuring lever is orretly lowered. Note Be sure tht the feed dog position swith on the emroidery unit is loted t right when emroidering. You n lso sew utility/deortive stithes with the emroidery unit tthed. Set the feed dog position swith on the emroidery unit to the pproprite setting. 2

14 NAMES OF MACHINE PARTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS Opertion Buttons Inluded Aessories Pull the top of the flt ed tthment to open the essory omprtment. Strt/Stop utton Press this utton nd the mhine will sew few stithes t slow speed nd then egin sewing t the speed set y the sewing speed ontroller. Press the utton gin to stop the mhine. Hold the utton in to sew t the mhine s slowest speed. The utton hnges olor ording to the mhine s opertion mode. Green: Red: the mhine is redy to sew or is sewing. the mhine nnot sew. Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton Use this utton to sew reinforement stithes t the eginning nd end of sewing. Press this utton, nd the mhine sews 3 stithes in the sme spot nd stops utomtilly. For stright nd zigzg stith ptterns tht tke reverse stithes, the mhine will sew reverse stithes t low speed only while holding down the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton (the stithes re sewn in the opposite diretion). Needle Position utton Use this utton when hnging sewing diretion or for detiled sewing in smll res. Press this utton to rise or lower the needle position. Press the utton twie to sew single stith. d Thred Cutter utton Press this utton fter sewing to utomtilly trim the exess thred. e Presser Foot Lifter utton Press this utton to lower the presser foot nd pply pressure to the fri. Press this utton gin to rise the presser foot. f Sewing Speed ontroller Use this ontroller to djust the sewing speed. Move the slide to the left to sew t slower speeds. Move the slide to the right to sew t higher speeds. Beginners should sew t slow speed. g Automti Threding utton Use this utton to utomtilly thred the needle. CAUTION Do not press the thred utter utton fter the threds hve lredy een ut. Otherwise, the needle my rek, the threds my eome tngled, or dmge to the mhine my our. Storge spe Presser foot storge spe Presser foot storge spe Inluded Aessories re ontined in the emroidery unit rrying se. To open the emroidery unit rrying se, unhook the two lthes on the se. To re-hook the lthes nd seurely lose the se, press on the lthes until eh of them liks. Lthes 3

15 NAMES OF MACHINE PARTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS Inluded Aessories /11 2 needles 90/14 2 needles 90/14 2 needles: Bll point needle (gold olored)

16 NAMES OF MACHINE PARTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS Prt Code No. Prt Nme U.S.A./ Cnd Others 1 Buttonhole foot A X Emroidery foot W XC Oversting foot G XC Monogrmming foot N X Zipper foot I X Zigzg foot J (on mhine) XC Blind stith foot R X Button fitting foot M Wlking foot SA140 F033N:XC Side utter foot SA177 F054:XC Free-motion quilting foot SA129 F005N:XC Stright stith foot SA167 F042N:XC Sem ripper X Boin 10 SA156 SFB:XA Needle set X Twin needle X Bll point needle set XD Sissors XC Chlk pen Clening rush X Eyelet punh Srewdriver (lrge) X Srewdriver (smll) X Spool p (smll) Spool p (medium) 2 X Spool p (lrge) Vertil spool pin XC Spool felt X Dis-shped srewdriver XC Spool net XA Emroidery frme set (smll) H 2 m W 6 m (H 1 inh W 2-1/2 inhes) SA437 EF73:XC Emroidery frme set (medium) H 10 m W 10 m (H 4 inhes W 4 inhes) 33 Emroidery frme set (lrge) H 18 m W 13 m (H 7 inhes W 5 inhes) 34 Emroidery frme set (extr lrge) H 30 m W 18 m (H 12 inhes W 7 inhes) SA438 SA439 SA440 FE74:XC EF75:XC EF76:XC Foot ontroller XD (EU re) XC (other re) 36 Emroidery needle plte over XA Grid sheet set SA507 GS3:X Touh pen (stylus) XA Knee lifter XA USB le XC Boin se (pink srew) XC Stright stith needle plte XC Cord guide oin over (with XC single hole) 44 Emroidery oin thred SA-EBT EBT-CEN: X Stilizer mteril SA519 BM3:X Opertion mnul XC Quik referene guide XC Emroidery unit rrying se SA529 D6EUC: XC Hrd se XC (For U.S.A. only) Foot ontroller: Model S This foot ontroller n e used with this mhine model Innov-ís4000D/NV4000D. Alwys use essories reommended for this mhine. The srew of the presser foot holder is ville through your uthorized deler (Prt ode XA ). Inluded essories 35, 46, nd 47 n e stored in the mhine s hrd se. 5

17 NAMES OF MACHINE PARTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS Options Prt Code No. Prt Nme U.S.A./ Cnd Others 1 Emroidery oin thred SA-EBT X (White) Emroidery oin thred SAEBT999 XC (Blk) 2 Stilizer mteril SA519 X Wter solule stilizer SA520 X Emroidery rd No. 1 Alphet SA298 X No. 2 Flower SA299 X No. 3 Dinosur SA300 X No. 6 Moskowitz s World SA303 X No. 7 Country Life SA304 X No. 8 Holidy SA305 X No. 9 Hoy Crft SA306 X No. 10 Monogrm Emlem SA307 X No. 11 Frme SA311 XA No. 12 Trnsporttion SA312 XA No. 13 Sports Emlem SA313 XA No. 14 Lrge Florl SA314 XA No. 16 Cts & Dogs SA316 XA No. 19 Mrine SA319 XA No. 20 Petite Designs SA320 XA No. 21 Needlework SA321 XA No. 22 Lrge Quilt SA322 XA No. 23 White on White SA323 XA No. 25 Horse SA325 XA No. 27 Birds SA327 XA No. 28 Christms SA328 XA No. 29 Le SA329 XA No. 30 Wildlife Animls SA330 XA No. 31 Lrge Flower II SA331 XA No. 32 Musil Instruments SA332 XA No. 33 Trees SA333 XA No. 35 Cts & Dogs II SA335 XA No. 36 Fruits & Vegetles SA336 XA No. 37 Appliqué Alphet SA337 XA No. 38 Angel SA338 XA No. 39 Doll Fe SA339 XA Prt Code No. Prt Nme U.S.A./ Cnd Others 3 No. 40 Sports 3 SA340 XA No. 41 Renissne Alphet SA341 XA No. 42 Frm SA342 XA No. 43 Vitorin SA343 XA No. 44 Le2 SA344 XA No. 45 Fny Work SA345 XA No. 46 Austrlin Animls SA346 XA No. 47 Butterfly SA347 XA No. 48 Austrlin Flowers SA348 XA No. 49 Folk Art SA349 XA No. 50 Firy & Florl SA350 XA No. 52 Ber Colletions SA352 XA No. 53 Sene SA353 XA No. 54 Te Time SA354 XA No. 55 Grdening SA355 XA No. 56 Asin SA356 XC No. 57 Lrge Christms SA357 XC No. 58 New Quilt Trditions SA358 XC No. 60 Summer Fun SA360 XC No. 61 Blouse Emellishment SA361 XC No. 62 Zodi Signs SA362 XC No. 63 Bunny SA363 XC No. 64 Grnd Mom SA364 XC No. 65 Red Work SA365 XC No. 66 Pop Mix SA366 XC No. 67 Home De Colletion SA367 XC No. 68 Cross Stith SA368 XC Colletion1 No. 69 Sport Shirt Motifs SA369 XC No. 70 Cross Stith Colletion2 SA370 XC You n use ny of the rother emroidery rds listed ove with your mhine. Plese e wre tht some speifitions my hnge without notie. Note Emroidery rds purhsed in foreign ountries my not work with your mhine. 6

18 Chpter 1 Getting Redy TURNING THE MACHINE ON/OFF...8 LCD SCREEN...9 Key Funtions...10 Using the Mhine Setting Mode Key...12 Adjusting Sreen Brightness...15 Choosing the Disply Lnguge...16 Using the Mhine Opertion Mode Key...17 Using the Pttern Explntion Key...18 LOWER THREADING...19 Winding the Boin...19 Using the Supplementl Spool Pin...19 Using the Spool Pin...21 Setting the Boin...22 Pulling Up the Boin Thred...23 UPPER THREADING...25 Threding Using the Automti Threding Button...25 Threding Mnully...27 Using the Twin Needle Mode...29 Using Threds tht Unwind Quikly...31 Using the Spool Net...31 Using the Vertil Spool Pin...31 CHANGING THE PRESSER FOOT...32 Removing the Presser Foot...32 Atthing the Presser Foot...32 Atthing the Wlking Foot...33 CHANGING THE NEEDLE...34 Aout the Needle...36 Fri/Thred/Needle Comintions...36

19 TURNING THE MACHINE ON/OFF TURNING THE MACHINE ON/OFF WARNING Use only regulr household eletriity s the power soure. Using other power soures my result in fire, eletri shok, or dmge to the mhine. Turn the min power to OFF nd remove the plug in the following irumstnes: When you re wy from the mhine After using the mhine When the power fils during use When the mhine does not operte orretly due to d onnetion or disonnetion During eletril storms CAUTION Do not use extension ords or multi-plug dpters with mny other pplines plugged in to them. Fire or eletri shok my result. Do not touh the plug with wet hnds. Eletri shok my result. When unplugging the mhine, lwys turn the min power to OFF first. Alwys grsp the plug to remove it from the outlet. Pulling on the ord my dmge the ord, or led to fire or eletri shok. Do not llow the power ord to e ut, dmged, modified, forefully ent, pulled, twisted, or undled. Do not ple hevy ojets on the ord. Do not sujet the ord to het. These things my dmge the ord, or use fire or eletri shok. If the ord or plug is dmged, tke the mhine to your uthorized deler for repirs efore ontinuing use. Unplug the power ord if the mhine is not to e used for long period of time. Otherwise, fire my result. When leving the mhine unttended, either the min swith of the mhine should e turned to OFF or the plug must e removed from the soket-outlet. When serviing the mhine or when removing overs, either the mhine or the eletril set must e unplugged. For U.S.A. only This ppline hs polrized plug (one lde wider thn the other). To redue the risk of eletril shok, this plug is intended to fit in polrized outlet only one wy. If the plug does not fit fully in the outlet, reverse the plug. If it still does not fit, ontt qulified eletriin to instll the proper outlet. Do not modify the plug in ny wy. Insert the power ord into the power ord jk onnetor, then insert the plug into wll outlet. Turn the min power swith to I to turn on the mhine. Min power swith Power ord OFF ON Turn the min power swith to O to turn off the mhine. 8

20 LCD SCREEN LCD SCREEN When swithing on the mhine, the sreen will disply the nme of the mhine. Touh the sreen to disply the utility stith. Either 1-01 Stright stith (Left) or 1-03 Stright stith (Middle) is seleted, depending on the setting seleted in the setting sreen (See pge 12). Press key with your finger to selet the stith pttern, to selet mhine funtion, or to selet n opertion indited on the key. 1 Note When the stright stith needle plte is on the mhine, the needle will utomtilly move to the middle position. Only touh the sreen with your finger or the inluded touh pen. Do not use shrp penil, srewdriver, or other hrd or shrp ojet. It is not neessry to press hrd on the sreen. Pressing too hrd or using shrp ojet my dmge the sreen. d Shows single or twin needle mode setting, nd the needle stop position. Single needle/down position Twin needle/down position Single needle/up position Twin needle/up position Shows the presser foot ode. Atth the presser foot indited in this disply efore sewing. Shows the nme nd ode numer of the seleted stith. d Shows preview of the seleted stith. e Shows the stith ptterns. f Shows dditionl pges tht n e displyed. * All key funtions of the LCD re explined in the key funtions tle on the following pge. e f 9Getting Redy

21 LCD SCREEN Key Funtions d e f i g h j l n q s k m o r t p u No. Disply Key Nme Explntion Pge Utility stith key Press this key to selet stright stith, zigzg stith, uttonhole, lind hem stith, or other stithes ommonly used in grment onstrution. 48 Chrter/Deortive stith key Press this key to selet hrter or deortive stith ptterns. 98 Emroidery key Atth the emroidery unit nd press this key to sew emroidery. 130 d Emroidery edit key Press this key to omine emroidery ptterns. With the emroidery edit funtions, you n lso rete originl emroidery ptterns or frme ptterns. 177 e Sewing type seletion key Press this key when you need help seleting the pproprite stith pttern for the sewing pplition nd when you need instrutions on how to sew the stith pttern. This key is very helpful for eginners. 51 f Pttern explntion key Press this key to see n explntion of the seleted pttern. 18 g Automti reinforement stith key Press this key to use the utomti reinforement stithing (reverse stithing) setting. If you selet this setting efore sewing, the mhine will utomtilly sew reinforement stithes t the eginning nd end of sewing (depending on the pttern, the mhine my sew reverse stithes). 44 h Automti thred utting key Press this key to set the utomti thred utting funtion. Set the utomti thred utting funtion efore sewing to hve the mhine utomtilly sew reinforement stithes t the eginning nd end of sewing (depending on the pttern, the mhine my sew reverse stithes) nd trim the threds fter sewing

22 LCD SCREEN No. Disply Key Nme Explntion Pge i Stith seletion disply Press the key of the pttern you wnt to sew. Use to hnge seletion sreens j Sreen lok key Press this key to lok the sreen.when the sreen is loked, the vrious settings, suh s the stith width nd stith length, re loked nd nnot e hnged. Press this key gin to unlok the settings. 46 Getting Redy k Imge key Press this key to disply n enlrged imge of the seleted stith pttern. 49 l Mirror imge key Press this key to rete mirror imge of the seleted stith pttern. If the key disply is light gry, mirror imge of the seleted stith pttern nnot e sewn. m Needle mode seletion key (single/ doule) Press this key to selet twin needle sewing mode. The sewing mode hnges etween single needle mode nd twin needle mode eh time you press the key. If the key disply is light gry, the seleted stith pttern nnot e sewn in twin needle mode. n Reset key Press this key to return the seleted stith pttern s sved settings to the originl settings o Retrieve key Press this key to retrieve sved pttern. 51 p Mnul memory key Chnge the stith pttern settings (zigzg width nd stith length, thred tension, utomti thred utting or utomti reinforement stithing, et.), then sve them y pressing this key. Five sets of settings n e sved for single stith pttern. q Stith width nd stith length key Shows the zigzg width nd stith length settings of the urrently seleted stith pttern. You n use the plus nd minus keys to djust the zigzg width nd stith length settings. r Thred tension key Shows the thred tension setting of the urrently seleted stith pttern. The thred tension is usully set utomtilly. You n use the plus nd minus keys to hnge the thred tension settings. s Mhine setting mode key Press this key to hnge the needle stop position, turn the uzzer ON/OFF, djust the pttern or sreen, nd hnge other mhine settings t Mhine opertion mode key Press this key to see explntions for upper threding, winding the oin, hnging the presser foot, nd how to use the mhine. 17 u Presser foot/needle exhnge key Press this key efore hnging the needle, the presser foot, et. This key loks ll key nd utton funtions to prevent opertion of the mhine

23 LCD SCREEN Using the Mhine Setting Mode Key Press to hnge the defult mhine settings (needle stop position, emroidery speed, opening disply, et.) Press, or to disply the different settings sreens. This funtion will e ville in future tehnology upgrdes. Press or to disply different settings sreen. Sewing settings d e Selet whether to use the sewing speed ontroller to determine the zigzg width (see pge 70). Mke djustments to hrter or deortive stith ptterns (see pge 103). Adjust the presser foot height. (Selet the height of the presser foot when the presser foot is rised.) d Adjust the presser foot pressure. (The higher the numer, the higher the pressure will e. Set the pressure t 3 for norml sewing.) e Selet whether 1-01 Stright stith (Left) or 1-03 Stright stith (Middle) is the utility stith tht is utomtilly seleted when the mhine is turned on. 12

24 LCD SCREEN Generl settings 1 Getting Redy d e f g h i j Chnge the rightness of the LCD (see pge 15). Selet the needle stop position (the needle position when the mhine is not operting) to e up or down. Turn the uzzer ON/OFF. d Turn the Needle Are nd Work Are Lights ON/OFF. e Turn the opening sreen disply ON/OFF. f Use when running n pplition. g Chnge the disply lnguge (see pge 16). h Disply the servie ount nd the totl numer of emroidery stithes. The servie ount is reminder to tke your mhine in for regulr serviing. (Contt your uthorized deler for detils.) i The NO. is the numer for the emroidery nd sewing mhine. j Disply the progrm version. The ltest version of softwre is instlled in your mhine. Chek with your lol uthorized Brother deler or t for notifition of ville updtes (see pge 224). 13

25 LCD SCREEN Emroidery settings i d e f g h Selet from mong 10 emroidery frme displys (see pge 158). Chnge the thred olor disply on the emroidery sreen; thred numer, olor nme or eh time to emroider (see pge 156). When the thred numer #123 is seleted, selet mong six thred rnds (see pge 156). d Adjust the mximum emroidery speed setting (see pge 156). e Adjust the thred tension for emroidering. f Selet the height of the emroidery foot W during emroidering (see pge 138). g Chnge the disply units (mm/inh). h Chnge the initil mode of the disply (emroidery/emroidery edit). i Customize the thred olor numers (see pge 188). 14

26 LCD SCREEN Adjusting Sreen Brightness Note All or prt of the sreen my sometimes eome drker or lighter euse of hnges in the ir temperture or other hnges in the environment round the sreen. This is norml nd is not sign of mlfuntion. Adjust the sreen if it is diffiult to red. The sreen my e drk immeditely fter turning on the power. This is funtion of the LCD k light sreen, nd it is not sign of mlfuntion. The sreen will return to its norml level of rightness fter pproximtely 10 minutes. If you re not diretly in front of the mhine when you view the LCD, the olors my pper to hnge or the sreen my e diffiult to see. This is hrteristi of the LCD, nd not sign of dmge or mlfuntion. For est results operte the sreen while sitting in front of the mhine. On the BRIGHTNESS OF LCD disply, use nd to djust the sreen rightness. * Press to mke the sreen drker. * Press to mke the sreen lighter. 1 Getting Redy Press. The Sewing settings sreen ppers. Press. Brightness of LCD disply d Press. The Generl settings sreen ppers. Press or to disply different settings sreen. 15

27 LCD SCREEN Choosing the Disply Lnguge Press. The Sewing settings sreen ppers. Press. The Generl settings sreen ppers. Use nd to hoose the disply lnguge. * Choose from the following lnguges: [ENGLISH], [GERMAN], [FRENCH], [ITALIAN], [DUTCH], [SPANISH], [DANISH], [FINNISH], [SWEDISH], [PORTUGEUSE], [RUSSIAN], [NORWEGIAN] or [JAPANESE]. Disply lnguge d Press. 16

28 LCD SCREEN Using the Mhine Opertion Mode Key Press to open the sreen shown elow. Six tegories re displyed t the top of the sreen. Press key to see more informtion out tht tegory. 1 Getting Redy displys informtion out the min prts of the mhine nd their funtions. This is the first sreen displyed when you press. the opertion uttons. displys informtion out displys informtion out threding the mhine, hnging presser feet, et. displys informtion out tthing the emroidery unit, prepring fri for emroidering, et. informtion. displys trouleshooting lening the mhine, et. displys informtion out 17

29 LCD SCREEN Exmple: Press. Displying informtion out upper threding Press. The lower hlf of the sreen will hnge. Press (upper threding). e Press sreen. to return to the originl Using the Pttern Explntion Key If you wnt to know more out the uses of stith pttern, selet the pttern nd press to see n explntion of the stith seletion. Exmple: Displying informtion out Press. Press. The sreen shows instrutions for threding the mhine. d Red the instrutions. * Press to see video of the displyed instrutions. * Press to view the next pge. The sreen shows informtion out. Press sreen. to return to the originl 18

30 LOWER THREADING LOWER THREADING Winding the Boin Press in tht order to disply video exmple of oin winding on the LCD (see pge 18). Follow the steps explined elow to omplete the opertion. Turn the min power to ON. Align the groove in the oin with the spring on the oin winder shft, nd set the oin on the shft. 1 Getting Redy CAUTION The enlosed oin ws designed speifilly for this sewing mhine. If oins from other models re used, the mhine will not operte orretly. Use only the enlosed oin or oins of the sme type (prt ode: SA156, (XA )) mm (pprox. 7/16 inh) This model Atul size Other models Groove of the oin Spring on the shft Set the supplementl spool pin in the up position. Using the Supplementl Spool Pin With this mhine, you n wind the oin during sewing. While using the min spool pin to sew emroidery, you n onveniently wind the oin using the supplementl spool pin , 8 3, d Supplementl spool pin Ple the spool of thred on the supplementl spool pin, so tht thred unrolls from the front. Then push the spool p onto the spool pin s fr s possile to seure the thred spool. o l 1 Supplementl spool pin Spool pin Spool p Thred spool 19

31 LOWER THREADING CAUTION If the thred spool nd/or spool p re set inorretly, the thred my tngle on the spool pin nd use the needle to rek. Use the spool p (lrge, medium, or smll) tht is losest in size to the thred spool. If spool p smller thn the thred spool is used, the thred my eome ught in the slit on the end of the spool nd use the needle to rek. f Pss the thred under the pin, nd pss the thred round the pretension disk mking sure tht the thred is under the pretension disk. When sewing with fine, ross-wound thred, use the smll spool p, nd leve smll spe etween the p nd the thred spool. g Pin Pretension disk Wind the thred lokwise round the oin 4-5 times. 2 e Spool p (smll) Thred spool (ross-wound thred) Spe With your right hnd, hold the thred ner the thred spool. With your left hnd, hold the end of the thred, nd use oth hnds to pss the thred through the thred guide. h 3 Pss the end of the thred through the guide slit in the oin winder set, nd pull the thred to the right to ut the thred with the utter. 1 Thred guide Guide slit Boin winder set CAUTION Be sure to follow the proess desried. If the thred is not ut with the utter, nd the oin is wound, when the thred runs low it my tngle round the oin nd use the needle to rek. 20

32 LOWER THREADING i Set the oin holder to the left, until it liks into ple. Boin holder (swith) When the oin holder is set to the left, it works s swith to mke the oin wind utomtilly. Using the Spool Pin You n use the min spool pin to wind the oin efore sewing. You nnot use this spool pin to wind the oin while sewing Getting Redy j The oin strts winding utomtilly nd stops rotting when it is done winding. The oin holder will return to the originl position. Cut the thred with the utter nd remove the oin. Turn the min power to ON. Align the groove in the oin with the spring on the oin winder shft, nd set the oin on the shft. o l 1 When removing the oin, do not pull on the oin winder set. Doing so ould loosen or remove the oin winder set, nd ould result in dmge to the mhine. CAUTION Setting the oin improperly my use the thred tension to loosen, reking the needle nd possily resulting in injury. Groove of the oin Spring on the shft Pivot the spool pin so tht it ngles upwrd. Set the thred spool on the spool pin so tht the thred unwinds from the front of the spool. Spool pin Spool p Thred spool 21

33 LOWER THREADING d e Push the spool p onto the spool pin s fr s possile, then return the spool pin to its originl position. Holding the thred with your hnds, slide the thred into the grooves on the thred guide plte. Setting the Boin Press in tht order to disply video exmple of the opertion on the LCD (see pge 18). Follow the steps explined elow to omplete the opertion. Thred guide plte CAUTION Use oin thred tht hs een orretly wound. Otherwise, the needle my rek or the thred tension will e inorret. f Pss the thred through the thred guide. Press the Presser Foot Lifter utton to rise the presser foot. Slide the oin over lth to the right. Thred guide g Pss the thred under the pin. Then pss the thred round the pretension disk mking sure tht the thred is under the pretension disk. Boin over Lth The oin over opens. Remove the oin over. d Hold the oin with your right hnd nd hold the end of the thred with your left hnd. Thred guide Pin Pretension disk h Follow steps g through j on pge 20 through

34 LOWER THREADING e Set the oin in the oin se so tht the thred unwinds to the left. h Insert the t in the lower-left orner of the oin over, nd then lightly press down on the right side to lose the over. 1 Getting Redy f Hold the oin lightly with your right hnd, nd then guide the thred with your left hnd. Pulling Up the Boin Thred There my e some sewing pplitions where you wnt to pull up the oin thred; for exmple, when mking gthers, drts, or doing free motion quilting or emroidery. You n pull up the oin thred fter threding the upper thred (see UPPER THREAD- ING on pge 25). g Pss the thred through the guide, nd then pull the thred out towrds the front. Guide the oin thred through the groove, following the rrow in the illustrtion. * Do not ut the thred with the utter. * Do not reple the oin over. Cutter The utter uts the thred. While holding the upper thred, press the needle position utton to lower the needle. CAUTION Be sure to hold down the oin with your finger nd unwind the oin thred orretly. Otherwise, the thred my rek or the thred tension will e inorret. Needle position utton 23

35 LOWER THREADING d Press the Needle Position utton to rise the needle. Gently pull the upper thred, nd loop of the oin thred will ome out of the hole in the needle plte. e Pull up the oin thred, then pss it under the presser foot nd pull it out 100 mm (pprox. 3-4 inhes) towrd the k of the mhine, mking it even with the upper thred. Upper thred Boin thred f Reple the oin over. 24

36 UPPER THREADING UPPER THREADING Threding Using the Automti Threding Button Press in tht order to disply video exmple of the opertion on the LCD (see pge 18). Follow the steps explined elow to omplete the opertion. Turn the min power to ON. Press the Needle Position utton to rise the needle. 1 Getting Redy CAUTION Be sure to thred the mhine properly. Improper threding n use the thred to tngle nd rek the needle, leding to injury. When using essories not inluded with this mhine, tth the essory to the mhine fter threding the mhine. Note If you try to thred the needle utomtilly without rising the needle, the thred my not thred orretly. Pivot the spool pin so tht it ngles upwrd. Set the thred spool on the spool pin so tht the thred unwinds from the front of the spool. The utomti threding funtion n e used with sewing mhine needles 75/11 through 100/16. Thred suh s trnsprent nylon monofilment thred nd thred with thikness of 130/20 or thiker nnot e used with the utomti threding funtion. The utomti threding funtion nnot e used with the wing needle or the twin needle. If the utomti threding funtion nnot e used, see Threding Mnully on pge 27. Spool pin Spool p Thred spool 7 d Push the spool p onto the spool pin s fr s possile, then return the spool pin to its originl position , CAUTION If the thred spool nd/or spool p re set inorretly, the thred my tngle on the spool pin nd use the needle to rek. Use the spool p (lrge, medium, or smll) tht is losest in size to the thred spool. If spool p smller thn the thred spool is used, the thred my eome ught in the slit on the end of the spool nd use the needle to rek. 25

37 UPPER THREADING When sewing with fine, ross-wound thred, use the smll spool p, nd leve smll spe etween the p nd the thred spool. h Press the Automti Threding utton to hve the mhine utomtilly thred the needle. e Spool p (smll) Thred spool (ross-wound thred) Spe Holding the thred with your hnds, slide the thred into the grooves on the thred guide plte. The upper threding is finished. When the Automti Threding utton is pressed, the presser foot will e utomtilly lowered. f Thred guide plte While holding the thred in your right hnd, pss the thred through the thred guide in the diretion indited. Note In se the needle is not ompletely thred, slowly pull the loop of the thred through from the k of the needle. g When finished pulling the thred through the thred guide, ut the thred nd leve the thred in position. Aout 50mm (pprox. 2 inhes) If the needle ould not e threded or the thred ws not pssed through the needle r thred guides, perform the proedure gin strting from step. 26 Cutter

38 UPPER THREADING Note When the Automti Threding utton is pressed, the presser foot will e utomtilly lowered. If you re using n inorret needle nd thred omintion, the hook my sometimes get ught in the needle. If this hppens, remove the hook from the needle s desried elow. Turn the min power to ON. Turn the hndwheel so tht the line on the mhine is ligned with the line on the hndwheel. 1 Getting Redy CAUTION The needle thred rrier will utomtilly thred the needle when the Automti Threding utton is pressed. Be sure to keep your hnds nd other items wy from the needle re, otherwise injuries my our. Line on hndwheel Press. If the line on the mhine is not ligned with the line on the hndwheel, the sewing mhine nnot e threded. Chek tht the line on the hndwheel is fing up s shown in the illustrtion ove. The key ppers s. Threding Mnully Automti threding nnot e used when using the wing needle, the twin needle, or speil thred with thikness of 130/20 or thiker. In these ses, thred the needle s desried elow. d Rise the presser foot lever , 6 3 e Pivot the spool pin so tht it ngles upwrd. Set the thred spool on the spool pin so tht the thred unwinds from the front of the spool. 4, Spool pin Spool p Thred spool 27

39 UPPER THREADING f Push the spool p onto the spool pin s fr s possile, then return the spool pin to its originl position. i Pull the thred under the thred pth guide. CAUTION If the thred spool nd/or spool p re set inorretly, the thred my tngle on the spool pin nd use the needle to rek. Use the spool p (lrge, medium, or smll) tht is losest in size to the thred spool. If spool p smller thn the thred spool is used, the thred my eome ught in the slit on the end of the spool nd use the needle to rek. (A) g Holding the thred with oth hnds, slide the thred into the grooves on the thred guide plte. j Thred pth guide Pull k up the thred long the left side of the thred pth guide to the top left orner of the threding pth over. (B) h Thred guide plte While holding the thred in your right hnd, use your left hnd to pull the thred towrd the threding pth over, then pss it long the thred pth s shown in the illustrtion. Be sure to pss the thred long the right side of the thred pth guide. Top left orner Threding pth over Pull the thred k down to the needle r k long the left side of the thred pth guide. * Mke sure the thred is hooked t the top orner nd positioned ehind the trnsprent front over. 1 (C) Threding pth over Thred pth guide Thred tke-up lever hek window Trnsprent front over 28 Tke-up lever Thred Look through the thred tke-up lever hek window nd hek tht the thred is orretly fed through the tke-up lever, turning the hndwheel towrd you.

40 UPPER THREADING l Lower the presser foot lever. Using the Twin Needle Mode m n Holding the thred with oth hnds, pss the thred through oth the upper nd lower needle r thred guides. Needle r thred guide (upper) Needle r thred guide (lower) 1 2 Pss the thred through the eye of the needle from front to k. The twin needle n only e used for ptterns tht show fter eing seleted. Before you selet stith pttern, mke sure the stith n e sewn in the twin needle mode (refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul). CAUTION Use only twin needles mde for this mhine (prt ode X ). Other needles ould rek, resulting in dmge. Be sure to set the twin needle mode when using the twin needle. Using the twin needle while the mhine is in single needle mode ould use the needle to rek, resulting in dmge. Do not sew with ent needles. The needle ould rek nd use injury. When using the twin needle, e sure to use presser foot J only. When the twin needle is used, unhed stithes my our depending on the types of fri nd thred tht re used. If this ours, use monogrmming foot N. 1 Getting Redy Press nd instll the twin needle (see CHANGING THE NEEDLE on pge 34). o Pss the thred through the presser foot, nd then pull out out mm (pprox. 4-6 inhes) of thred towrd the k of the mhine. Mnully thred the mhine. * Follow the steps for threding single needle for the first threding (see Threding Mnully on pge 27) mm (pprox. 4-6 inhes) p Press uttons. to unlok ll keys nd 29

41 UPPER THREADING Pss the thred through the needle r thred guides on the needle r, then thred the needle on the left side. f Hold the thred from the spool with oth hnds, nd ple the thred in the thred guide. * Do not ple the thred in the oin winding thred guide. Needle r thred guides d Note The Automti Threding utton nnot e used. Mnully thred the twin needle from front to k. Using the Automti Threding utton my result in dmge to the mhine. Pull up the supplementl spool pin nd set it in the up position. g Thred guide Pss the thred through the thred guide plte, following the sequene s desried elow. e Supplementl spool pin Ple the dditionl spool of thred on the supplementl spool pin, so tht the thred unwinds from the front. Then push the spool p onto the spool pin s fr s possile to seure the thred spool. h Do not pss the thred in the needle r thred guides on the needle r. Thred the needle on the right side. Spool pin Spool p Thred spool i Press. 30

42 UPPER THREADING j Selet stith pttern. (Exmple: ) * Refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul for proper stith to use with presser foot J. The Seleted stith is displyed. Note If the key is light gry fter seleting the stith, the seleted stith nnot e sewn in the twin needle mode. k Press mode. to selet the twin needle Using Threds tht Unwind Quikly Using the Spool Net If using trnsprent nylon thred, metlli thred, or other strong thred, ple the inluded spool net over the spool efore using it. When using these threds, threding must e done mnully. If the spool net is too long, fold it one to mth it to the spool size efore pling it over the spool. Spool net Thred spool Spool pin d Spool p 1 Getting Redy d Single needle/twin needle setting Using the Vertil Spool Pin Use the vertil spool pin when using n irregulrly shped thred spool, nd when sewing or emroidering with metlli thred. When threding the spool with the spool net on, the thred my not ome out enough. Mke sure tht 5-6 m (pprox /2 inhes) of thred re pulled out. It my e neessry to djust the thred tension when using the spool net. Insert the vertil spool pin into the end of the oin winder shft. ppers. CAUTION Be sure to set the twin needle mode when using the twin needle. Using the twin needle while the mhine is in single needle mode ould use the needle to rek, resulting in dmge. d Boin winder shft Vertil spool pin Spool felt d Thred spool l Strt sewing. Smple of Twin Needle Sewing Instll the spool felt nd the thred spool in tht order, nd then thred the upper thred. When setting the thred spool, set it so tht the thred winds off from the front of the spool. If using metlli thred, we reommend tht you use 90/14 home sewing mhine needle. This method keeps the thred from twisting s it omes off the spool pin. 31

43 CHANGING THE PRESSER FOOT CHANGING THE PRESSER FOOT CAUTION Alwys press on the sreen efore hnging the presser foot. If is not pressed nd the Strt/Stop utton or nother utton is pressed, the mhine will strt nd my use injury. Alwys use the orret presser foot for the seleted stith pttern. If the wrong presser foot is used, the needle my strike the presser foot nd end or rek, nd my use injury. Only use presser feet mde for this mhine. Using other presser feet my led to ident or injury. Removing the Presser Foot Atthing the Presser Foot Press the Needle Position utton to rise the needle. Ple the new presser foot under the holder, ligning the foot pin with the noth in the holder. Lower the presser foot lever so tht the presser foot pin snps into the noth in the holder. Press. The key ppers s. Rise the presser foot lever. Noth Pin Press uttons. to unlok ll keys nd Rise the presser foot lever. d Press the lk utton on the presser foot holder nd remove the presser foot. Blk utton Presser foot holder 32

44 CHANGING THE PRESSER FOOT Atthing the Wlking Foot The wlking foot holds the fri etween the presser foot nd the feed dogs to feed the fri. This enles you to hve etter fri ontrol when sewing diffiult fris (suh s quilting or velvet) or fris tht slip esily (suh s vinyl loth, lether, or syntheti lether). Note When sewing with the wlking foot, sew t medium to low speeds. d Lower the presser foot lever. Insert the srew, nd tighten the srew seurely with the srewdriver. 1 Getting Redy The wlking foot n only e used with stright or zigzg stith ptterns. Reverse stithes nnot e sewn with the wlking foot. Only selet stright or zigzg stith ptterns with reinforement stithes. Follow the steps in Removing the Presser Foot on the previous pge. Loosen the srew of the presser foot holder to remove the presser foot holder. CAUTION Use the srewdriver to tighten the srew seurely. If the srew is loose, the needle my strike the presser foot nd use injury. Be sure to turn the hndwheel towrd the front of the mhine to hek tht the needle does not strike the presser foot. If the needle strikes the presser foot, injury my result. Set the opertion lever of the wlking foot so tht the needle lmp srew is set etween the fork, nd position the wlking foot on the presser foot r. d Opertion lever Needle lmp srew Fork d Presser foot r 33

45 CHANGING THE NEEDLE CHANGING THE NEEDLE CAUTION Alwys press on the sreen efore hnging the needle. If is not pressed nd the Strt/ Stop utton or nother opertion utton is pressed identlly, the mhine will strt nd injury my result. Use only sewing mhine needles mde for home use. Other needles my end or rek nd my use injury. Never sew with ent needle. A ent needle will esily rek nd my use injury. To hek the needle orretly, ple the flt side of the needle on flt surfe. Chek the needle from the top nd the sides. Throw wy ny ent needles. Use the srewdriver to turn the srew towrd the front of the mhine nd loosen the srew, then remove the needle. Prllel spe Level surfe (oin over, glss, et.) Press the Needle Position utton to rise the needle. Note Do not pply pressure to the needle lmp srew. Doing so my dmge the needle or mhine. Press. The key ppers s. 34

46 CHANGING THE NEEDLE d With the flt side of the needle fing the k, insert the new needle ll the wy to the top of the needle stopper (viewing window) in the needle lmp. Use srewdriver to seurely tighten the needle lmp srew. 1 Getting Redy Needle stopper Hole for setting the needle Flt side of needle CAUTION Be sure to push in the needle until it touhes the stopper, nd seurely tighten the needle lmp srew with srewdriver. If the needle is not ompletely inserted or the needle lmp srew is loose, the needle my rek or the mhine my e dmged. e Press uttons. to unlok ll keys nd 35

47 CHANGING THE NEEDLE Aout the Needle The sewing mhine needle is proly the most importnt prt of the sewing mhine. Choosing the proper needle for your sewing projet will result in eutiful finish nd fewer prolems. Below re some things to keep in mind out needles. The smller the needle numer, the finer the needle. As the numers inrese, the needles get thiker. Use fine needles with lightweight fris, nd thiker needles with hevyweight fris. To void skipped stithes, use ll point needle (golden olored) 90/14 with streth fris. To void skipped stithes, use ll point needle (golden olored) 90/14 when sewing hrter or deortive stithes. Use needle 75/11 for emroidery. Use ll point needle 75/107 for emroidering ptterns with short jump stithes suh s lphet hrters when the thred trimming funtion is turned on. Bll point needles (golden olored) 90/14 re not reommended for emroidery, s they my end or rek, using injury. It is reommended tht 90/14 needle should e used when emroidering on hevyweight fris or stilizing produts (for exmple, denim, puffy fom, et.). A 75/11 needle my end or rek, whih ould result in injury. A home sewing mhine needle 75/11 is inserted in the sewing mhine. Fri/Thred/Needle Comintions The following tle provides informtion onerning the pproprite thred nd needle for vrious fris. Plese refer to this tle when seleting thred nd needle for the fri you wish to use. Fri Thred Size of needle Type Size Medium weight fri Brodloth Cotton /11-90/14 Tffet Syntheti mererized Flnnel, Grdine Silk or silk finished 50 Lightweight fri Lwn, Btiste Cotton /9-75/11 Georgette Syntheti mererized Chllis, Stin Silk 50 Hevyweight fri Denim Cotton /14-100/16 Corduroy Syntheti mererized 50 Tweed Silk 50 Streth fri Jersey Thred for knits Bll point needle Triot (golden olored) 75/11-90/14 For top stithing Syntheti mererized 30 90/14-100/16 Silk 30 For trnsprent nylon thred, lwys use needle 90/14-100/16. The sme thred is usully used for the oin thred nd upper threding. CAUTION Be sure to follow the needle, thred, nd fri omintions listed in the tle. Using n improper omintion, espeilly hevyweight fri (i.e., denim) with smll needle (i.e., 65/9-75/11), my use the needle to end or rek, nd led to injury. Also, the sem my e uneven, the fri my puker, or the mhine my skip stithes. 36

48 Chpter 2 Sewing Bsis SEWING...38 Sewing Stith...38 Using the Foot Controller...39 Sewing Reinforement Stithes...40 Sewing Curves...40 Chnging Sewing Diretion...40 Sewing Hevyweight Fris...41 If the Fri does not Fit under the Presser Foot...41 If the Fri does not Feed t the Beginning of Stithing...41 Sewing Lightweight Fris...41 STITCH SETTINGS...42 Setting the Stith Width...42 Setting the Stith Length...42 Setting the Thred Tension...43 Proper Thred Tension...43 Upper Thred is Too Tight...43 Upper Thred is Too Loose...43 USEFUL FUNCTIONS...44 Automti Reinforement Stithing...44 Automti Thred Cutting...45 Using the Knee Lifter...46 Loking the Sreen...46

49 SEWING SEWING Sewing Stith CAUTION To void injury, py speil ttention to the needle while the mhine is in opertion. Keep your hnds wy from moving prts while the mhine is in opertion. Do not streth or pull the fri during sewing. Doing so my led to injury. Do not use ent or roken needles. Doing so my led to injury. Tke re tht the needle does not strike sting pins or other ojets during sewing. Otherwise, the needle my rek nd use injury. If stithes eome unhed, lengthen the stith length setting efore ontinuing sewing. Otherwise, the needle my rek nd use injury. Turn the min power to ON, nd push the Needle Position utton to rise the needle. Press the key of the stith you wnt to sew. d Set the fri under the presser foot. Hold the fri nd thred ends in your left hnd, nd turn the hndwheel to set the needle in the sewing strt position. The symol of the orret presser foot will e displyed in the upper left orner of the LCD. Instll the presser foot (see CHANGING THE PRESSER FOOT on pge 32). CAUTION Alwys use the orret presser foot. If the wrong presser foot is used, the needle my strike the presser foot nd end or rek, possily resulting in injury. Lower the presser foot. e * You do not hve to pull up the oin thred. f The lk utton on the left side of presser foot J should e pressed only if the fri does not feed or when sewing thik sems (see pge 41). Normlly, you n sew without pressing the lk utton. Adjust the sewing speed with the speed ontrol slide. * You n use this slide to djust sewing speed during sewing. Slow Fst 38

50 SEWING g Press the Strt/Stop utton to strt sewing. * Guide the fri lightly y hnd. Note When utting thred thiker thn #30, nylon thred, or other deortive threds, use the thred utter on the side of the mhine. h Press the Strt/Stop utton gin to stop sewing. j When the needle hs stopped moving, rise the presser foot nd remove the fri. This mhine is equipped with oin thred sensor tht wrns you when the oin thred is lmost empty. When the oin thred is nerly empty, the mhine utomtilly stops. However, if the Strt/Stop utton is pressed, few stithes n e sewn. If the wrning displys, re-thred the mhine immeditely. 2 Sewing Bsis i Press the Thred Cutter utton to trim the threds. Using the Foot Controller You n lso use the foot ontroller to strt nd stop sewing. CAUTION Do not llow fri piees nd dust to ollet in the foot ontroller. Doing so ould use fire or n eletri shok. The needle will return to the up position utomtilly. CAUTION Do not press the Thred Cutter utton fter the threds hve een ut. Doing so ould tngle the thred or rek the needle nd dmge the mhine. Do not press the Thred Cutter utton when there is no fri set in the mhine or during mhine opertion. The thred my tngle, possily resulting in dmge. When the foot ontroller is eing used, the Strt/Stop utton hs no effet on sewing. The foot ontroller nnot e used when emroidering. The foot ontroller n e used for sewing utility nd deortive stithes when the emroidery unit is tthed. Insert the foot ontroller plug into its jk on the mhine. Foot ontroller Foot ontroller jk Note Do not pull the retrtle ord out eyond the red mrk on the ord. 39

51 SEWING Slowly depress the foot ontroller to strt sewing. Sewing Curves Sew slowly while keeping the sem prllel with the fri edge s you guide the fri round the urve. The speed set using the sewing speed ontroller is the foot ontroller s mximum sewing speed. Relese the foot ontroller to stop the mhine. (For U.S.A. only) Foot ontroller: Model S This foot ontroller n e used with model Innov-ís 4000D/NV4000D Sewing Reinforement Stithes Chnging Sewing Diretion Stop the mhine. Leve the needle in the fri, nd press the Presser Foot Lifter utton to rise the presser foot. Using the needle s pivot, turn the fri so tht you n sew in the new diretion. Press the Presser Foot Lifter utton to lower the presser foot nd strt sewing. Reverse/reinforement stithes re generlly neessry t the eginning nd end of sewing. You n use the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton to sew reverse/reinforement stithes mnully (see pge 3). If the utomti reinforement stith is seleted on the sreen, reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) will e sewn utomtilly t the eginning of sewing when the Strt/Stop utton is pressed. Press the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton to sew reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) utomtilly t the end of sewing (see pge 44). When edge stithing short stith length lose to the edge of the fri, the presser foot my not over enough fri for proper feeding. Before you egin to sew, sew sting thred t the orner point. When you hnge diretion t the orner, strt sewing s you pull the sting thred towrd the k. 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) 40

52 Sewing Hevyweight Fris The sewing mhine n sew fris up to 6 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) thik. If the thikness of sem uses sewing to our t n ngle, help guide the fri y hnd nd sew on the downwrd slope. SEWING If the Fri does not Feed t the Beginning of Stithing If the fri does not feed when strting to sew or when sewing thik sems, press the lk utton on the left side of presser foot J. Rise the presser foot. While keeping the lk utton on the left side of presser foot J pressed in, press the Presser Foot Lifter utton to lower the presser foot. 2 CAUTION Do not forefully push fris more thn 6 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) thik through the sewing mhine. This my use the needle to rek nd use injury. Sewing Bsis If the Fri does not Fit under the Presser Foot If the presser foot is in the up position, nd you re sewing hevyweight or multiple lyers of fri whih do not fit esily under the presser foot, use the presser foot lever to rise the presser foot to its highest position. The fri will now fit under the presser foot. Relese the utton. The presser foot remins level, enling the fri to e fed. One the troule spot hs een pssed, the foot will return to its norml position. You nnot use the presser foot lever fter the presser foot hs een rised using the Presser Foot Lifter utton. Sewing Lightweight Fris Ple thin pper or ter wy emroidery stilizer under thin fris to mke sewing esier. Gently ter off the pper or the stilizer fter sewing. Thin pper 41

53 STITCH SETTINGS STITCH SETTINGS When you selet stith, your mhine utomtilly selets the pproprite stith width, stith length, nd upper thred tension. However, if needed, you n hnge ny of the individul settings. Note Settings for some stithes nnot e hnged (refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul). If you turn off the mhine or selet nother stith without sving stith setting hnges (see Sving Your Stith Settings on pge 50), the stith settings will return to their defult settings. Setting the Stith Width Follow the steps elow when you wnt to hnge the zigzg stith pttern width. Press to widen the zigzg stith pttern width. The vlue in the disply gets igger. Exmple: For n lternte method of hnging the stith width using the speed ontroller, see pge 70. Press to return the stith width to the originl setting. Setting the Stith Length Press to nrrow the zigzg stith pttern width. Follow the steps elow when you wnt to hnge the stith pttern length. The vlue in the disply gets smller. Exmple: Press to shorten the stith length. The vlue in the disply gets smller. 42

54 Press to lengthen the stith length. STITCH SETTINGS Proper Thred Tension The upper nd lower threds should ross ner the enter of the fri. If the thred tension is not properly set, the sem my hve poor finish or the fri my puker. The vlue in the disply gets igger. Using the Imge Key, you n hek hnges mde to the stith. Press to return the stith length to the originl setting. CAUTION If the stithes get unhed together, lengthen the stith length nd ontinue sewing. Do not ontinue sewing without lengthening the stith length. Otherwise, the needle my rek nd use injury. Wrong side Surfe Upper thred d Boin thred Upper Thred is Too Tight If the oin thred n e seen on the surfe of the fri, press. d 2 Sewing Bsis Setting the Thred Tension d You my need to hnge the thred tension, depending on the fri nd thred eing used. Follow the steps elow to mke ny neessry hnges. Boin thred Upper thred Surfe d Loks pper on surfe of fri Upper Thred is Too Loose If the upper thred n e seen on the wrong side of the fri, press. d Upper thred Boin thred Wrong side d Loks pper on wrong side of fri Press to return the thred tension to the originl setting. 43

55 USEFUL FUNCTIONS USEFUL FUNCTIONS Automti Reinforement Stithing After seleting stith pttern, turn on the utomti reinforement stithing funtion efore sewing, nd the mhine will utomtilly sew reinforement stithes (or reverse stithes, depending on the stith pttern) t the eginning nd end of sewing. Selet stith pttern. Press to set the utomti reinforement stithing funtion. Set the fri in the strt position nd strt sewing. Reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) The mhine will utomtilly sew reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) nd then ontinue sewing. If you press the Strt/Stop utton to puse sewing, press it gin to ontinue. The mhine will not sew reverse reinforement stithes gin. d Press the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton. The key will disply s. Some stithes, suh s uttonholes nd r tks, require reinforement stithes t the eginning of sewing. If you selet one of these stithes, the mhine will utomtilly turn on this funtion (the key ppers s the stith is seleted). when Reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) The mhine will sew reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) nd stop. To turn off the utomti reinforement stithing funtion, press gin, so it ppers s. 44

56 USEFUL FUNCTIONS Automti Thred Cutting Set the fri in the strt position nd strt sewing. After seleting stith pttern, turn on the utomti thred utting funtion efore sewing, nd the mhine will utomtilly sew reinforement stithes (or reverse stithes, depending on the stith pttern) t the eginning nd end of sewing, nd trim the threds t the end of sewing. This funtion is useful when sewing uttonholes nd r tks. Selet stith pttern. Press to set the utomti thred utting funtion. Reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) The mhine will utomtilly sew reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) nd then ontinue sewing. If you press the Strt/Stop utton to puse sewing, press the sme utton gin to ontinue. The eginning reverse/reinforement stithes will not e sewn gin. 2 Sewing Bsis d Press the Reverse/Reinforement Stithing utton. The key will disply s. This funtion is set utomtilly when sewing emroidery. Reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) The mhine will sew reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes), then trim the thred. To turn off the utomti thred utting funtion, press gin, so it ppers s. 45

57 USEFUL FUNCTIONS Using the Knee Lifter Using the knee lifter, you n rise nd lower the presser foot with your knee, leving oth hnds free to hndle the fri. Align the ts on the knee lifter with the nothes in the jk, nd then insert the knee lifter s fr s possile. Loking the Sreen If the sreen is loked efore strting to sew, the vrious settings suh s the stith width nd stith length re loked nd nnot e hnged. This prevents sreen settings from identlly eing hnged or the mhine from eing stopped while lrge piees of fri or projets re eing sewn. The sreen n e loked when sewing utility stithes nd hrter deortive stithes. Selet stith pttern. If neessry, djust ny settings suh s the stith width nd stith length. Press to lok the sreen settings. Note If the knee lifter is not pushed into the mounting slot s fr s possile, it my ome out during use. d The key ppers s. Sew your projet. Use your knee to move the knee lifter to the right in order to rise the presser foot. Relese the knee lifter to lower the presser foot. e When you re finished sewing, press gin to unlok the sreen settings. CAUTION If the sreen is loked ( ), unlok the sreen y pressing. While the sreen is loked, no other key n e operted. The settings re unloked when the mhine is turned off nd on. CAUTION Be sure to keep your knee wy from the knee lifter during sewing. If the knee lifter is pushed during mhine opertion, the needle my rek or the thred tension my loosen. 46

58 Chpter 3 Utility Stithes SELECTING UTILITY STITCHES...48 Seleting Stith Stith Seletion Sreens Using the Mirror Imge Key Using the Imge Key Sving Your Stith Settings Sving Settings Retrieving Sved Settings Using the Sewing Type Seletion Key SEWING THE STITCHES...53 Stright Stithes Chnging the Needle Position (Left or Middle Needle Position Stithes Only) Using the Stright Stith Needle Plte nd the Stright Stith Foot Bsting Drt Sem Gthering Flt Fell Sem Pintuk Zigzg Stithes Oversting (Using Zigzg Stith) Appliqué (Using Zigzg Stith) Pthwork (for Crzy Quilt) Sewing Curves (Using Zigzg Stith) Cord Guide Boin Cover (Using Zigzg Stith) Elsti Zigzg Stithes Tpe Atthing Oversting Oversting Oversting Using Presser Foot G Oversting Using Presser Foot J Oversting Using the Side Cutter When Sewing Stright Stithes While Using the Side Cutter Quilting Pieing Quilting Appliqué Quilting with Stin Stithes Free-motion Quilting Blind Hem Stithes If the Needle does not Cth the Fold If the Needle Cthes Too Muh of the Fold Appliqué Sewing Shrp Curves Shelltuk Stithes Sllop Stithes Top Stithing Smoking Stithes Fgoting Tpe or Elsti Atthing Heirloom Hemstithing (1) (Disy Stith) Hemstithing (2) (Drwn Work) Hemstithing (3) One-step Buttonholes Sewing Streth Fris...83 Odd Shped Buttons/Buttons tht do not Fit into the Button Holder Plte...83 Four-step Buttonholes...84 Drning...86 Br Tks...88 Br Tks on Thik Fris...89 Button Sewing...90 Atthing 4 Hole Buttons...91 Atthing Shnk to the Button...91 Eyelet...92 Multi-diretionl Sewing (Stright Stith nd Zigzg Stith)...93 Zipper Insertion...94 Centered Zipper...94 Inserting Side Zipper...95

59 SELECTING UTILITY STITCHES SELECTING UTILITY STITCHES Seleting Stith Stith Seletion Sreens There re 5 tegories of Utility Stithes. indites tht there is more thn one stith seletion sreen for tht tegory. Stright/Oversting/Quilting Stithes Deortive Stithes Heirloom Stithes Buttonholes/Br tks Multi-diretionl Sewing 48

60 SELECTING UTILITY STITCHES Turn the min power to ON. Either 1-01 Stright stith (Left) or 1-03 Stright stith (Middle) is seleted, depending on the setting seleted in the setting sreen. Use tegory you wnt. to selet the * Press to view this sreen if nother sreen displys. * Press to view the next pge. Using the Mirror Imge Key Depending on the type of utility stith you selet, you my e le to sew horizontl mirror imge of the stith. If is lit when you selet stith, it will e possile to mke mirror imge of the stith. Note If is light gry fter you selet stith, you nnot rete horizontl mirror imge of the seleted stith (this is true of uttonholes, multi-diretionl sewing, nd others). Press to rete horizontl mirror imge of the seleted stith. The key will disply s. 3 Utility Stithes Preview of the seleted stith Stith seletion sreen Press the key of the stith you wnt to sew. For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. Using the Imge Key You n disply n tul size imge of the seleted stith. You n lso hek nd hnge the olors of the imge on the sreen. Press. An imge of the seleted stith is displyed. 49

61 SELECTING UTILITY STITCHES Press to hnge the thred olor of the stith on the sreen. * Press to disply n enlrged imge of the stith. The olor hnges every time you press. The units of the stith disply re re in mm. Sving Your Stith Settings The settings for the zigzg stith width, stith length, thred tension, utomti thred utting, utomti reinforement stithing, et., re preset in the mhine for eh stith. However, if you hve speifi settings tht you wish to reuse lter for stith, you n hnge the settings so tht they n e sved for tht stith. Five sets of settings n e sved for single stith. Sving Settings Selet stith. (Exmple: ) Stith sreen Press sreen. to go k to the originl Speify your preferred settings. 50

62 SELECTING UTILITY STITCHES Press. Press the numered key of the settings to e retrieved. * Press to return to the originl sreen without retrieving settings. 3 The settings re sved nd the originl sreen utomtilly ppers. Retrieving Sved Settings If you try to sve settings when there re lredy 5 sets of settings sved for stith, messge will pper. Follow the diretions in the messge to erse one set of urrently sved settings nd sve the new settings. Selet stith. When stith is seleted, the lst settings retrieved re displyed. The lst settings retrieved re retined even if the mhine ws turned off or different stith ws seleted. Numered keys d Press. You n delete the seleted settings y pressing. The seleted settings re retrieved, nd the originl sreen utomtilly ppers. Using the Sewing Type Seletion Key Utility Stithes Press. You n lso selet utility stithes using. Use this key when you re not sure whih stith to use for your pplition, or to get dvie out sewing prtiulr stithes. For exmple, if you wnt to sew oversting, ut you do not know whih stith to use or how to sew the stith, you n use this sreen to get dvie. We reommend tht eginners use this method to selet stithes. 51

63 SELECTING UTILITY STITCHES Exmple: Displying informtion out oversting Red the explntions nd selet the pproprite stith. Press. * Press or to sroll the pge. The dvie sreen is displyed. Press. * Press to return to the originl sreen. d The sreen displys diretions for sewing the seleted stith. Follow the diretions to sew the stith. * Press to view the next pge. The upper prt of the sreen displys seletion of oversting stithes with explntions. 52

64 SEWING THE STITCHES SEWING THE STITCHES Stright Stithes Stith Stith nme Stright stith (Left) Stright stith (Left) Stright stith (Middle) Stright stith (Middle) Triple streth stith Presser foot Applitions Generl sewing, gther, pintuk, et. Reverse stith is sewn while pressing Reverse/ Reinforement Stith utton. Generl sewing, gther, pintuk, et. Reinforement stith is sewn while pressing Reverse/ Reinforement Stith utton. Generl sewing, gther, pintuk, et. Reverse stith is sewn while pressing Reverse/ Reinforement Stith utton. Generl sewing, gther, pintuk, et. Reinforement stith is sewn while pressing Reverse/ Reinforement Stith utton. Generl sewing for reinforement nd deortive topstithing Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 0.0 (0) 0.0 (0) 3.5 (1/8) 3.5 (1/8) 0.0 (0) (0-1/4) (0-1/4) (0-1/4) (0-1/4) (0-1/4) 2.5 (3/32) 2.5 (3/32) 2.5 (3/32) 2.5 (3/32) 2.5 (3/32) (1/64-3/16) (1/64-3/16) (1/64-3/16) (1/64-3/16) (1/16-3/16) Twin needle OK ( J ) OK ( J ) OK ( J ) OK ( J ) OK ( J ) 3 Utility Stithes Stem stith Reinfored stithing, sewing nd deortive pplitions 1.0 (1/16) (1/16-1/8) 2.5 (3/32) (1/16-3/16) OK ( J ) Deortive stith Deortive stithing, top stithing 0.0 (0) (0-1/4) 2.5 (3/32) (1/16-3/16) OK ( J ) Bsting stith Bsting 0.0 (0) (0-1/4) 20.0 (3/4) (3/16-1-3/16) NO J J Left needle position Middle needle position Reverse stith Reinforement stith If the seleted stith hs doule mrk t the top of the key disply, you n sew reverse stithes holding the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton. If the seleted stith hs dot mrk t the top of the key disply, you n sew reinforement stithes holding the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton (see pge 40). 53

65 SEWING THE STITCHES Selet stith. f CAUTION Be sure the needle does not strike sting pin, or ny other ojets, during sewing. The thred ould tngle or the needle ould rek, using injury. When sewing is ompleted, hold the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton to sew 3-4 reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) t the end of the sem. Atth presser foot J. Hold the thred tils nd fri with your left hnd, nd turn the hndwheel with your right hnd to insert the needle into the fri. g After sewing, press the Thred Cutter utton to trim the threds. Sewing strt position d e Lower the presser foot, nd hold the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton to sew 3-4 stithes. The mhine sews reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes). Press the Strt/Stop utton to sew forwrd. When the utomti thred utting nd utomti reinforement stith keys on the sreen re seleted, reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) will e sewn utomtilly t the eginning of sewing when the Strt/Stop utton is pressed. Press the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton to sew reverse stithes (or reinforement stithes) nd trim the thred utomtilly t the end of sewing. Reverse stithes The mhine will egin sewing slowly. 54

66 SEWING THE STITCHES Chnging the Needle Position (Left or Middle Needle Position Stithes Only) When you selet left or middle needle position stithes, you n use nd in the stith width disply to hnge the position of the needle. Mth the distne from the right edge of the presser foot to the needle with the stith width, then lign the edge of the presser foot with the edge of the fri during sewing for n ttrtive finish. Using the Stright Stith Needle Plte nd the Stright Stith Foot The stright stith needle plte nd the stright stith foot n only e used for stright stithes (middle needle position stithes). Use the stright stith needle plte nd the stright stith foot when sewing thin fris or when sewing smll piees whih tend to sink into the hole of the regulr needle plte during sewing. The stright stith foot is perfet to redue pukering on lightweight fris. The smll opening on the foot provides support for the fri s the needle trvels through the fri. Stith width Exmple: Left/Middle needle position stithes CAUTION Alwys use the stright stith foot in omintion with the stright stith needle plte. Press the Presser Foot Lifter utton to rise the presser foot nd turn the min power to OFF. Remove the flt ed tthment or the emroidery unit if either re tthed. Grsp oth sides of the needle plte over, nd then slide it towrd you. 3 Utility Stithes J J J J Needle plte over 12.0 mm (pprox. 1/2 inh) 8.5 mm (pprox. 11/32 inh) 6.5 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) 5.0 mm (pprox. 3/ 16 inh) d Grsp the oin se, nd then pull it out. For stndrd 16 mm (pprox. 5/8 inh) sem llowne, set the width to 0 mm on the sreen. While sewing, lign the edge of the fri with the 16mm (pprox. 5/8 inh) mrk on the needle plte. J e Boin se Use the srewdriver inluded with the mhine to unsrew nd remove the regulr needle plte. 16 mm (pprox. 5/8 inh) 55

67 SEWING THE STITCHES f Set the stright stith needle plte in ple nd use the srewdriver to tighten the plte. Bsting Selet nd tth presser foot J. Press the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton to sew reinforement stithes, then ontinue sewing. g Insert the oin se in its originl position, nd then tth the needle plte over. h Note Align the two srew holes on the needle plte with the two holes on the mhine nd srews in the needle plte. After reinstlling the needle plte over, selet ny of the stright stithes. When using the stright stith needle plte, ll stright stithes eome middle needle position stithes. You nnot hnge the needle position using the width disply. CAUTION Seleting other stithes will use n error messge to e displyed. Be sure to turn the hndwheel slowly in your diretion efore sewing nd mke sure tht the needle is not ontting the stright stith foot nd stright stith needle plte. Atth the stright stith foot. i Strt sewing. j * After sewing, mke sure to remove the stright stith needle plte nd the stright stith foot, nd reinstll the regulr needle plte, the needle plte over nd the presser foot J. To prevent pukering on fine fris, use fine needle, size 75/11, nd short stith length. For hevier fris, use hevier needle, size 90/14, nd longer stithes. d If you do not wnt to use reinforement stith t the eginning; you should lift the presser foot, rotte the hndwheel, pull up the oin thred nd pull length of top nd oin thred out from the rer of the mhine. You n set the stith length etween 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) nd 30 mm (pprox. 1-3/16 inhes) Between 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) nd 30 mm (pprox. 1-3/16 inhes) Sew while keeping the fri stright. End the sting with reinforement stithes. 56

68 SEWING THE STITCHES Drt Sem e Iron the drt to one side so tht it is flt. Selet nd tth presser foot J. Sew reverse stith t the eginning of the drt nd then sew from the wide end to the other end without strething the fri. * If utomti reinforement stithing is preset, reinforement stith will utomtilly e sewn t the eginning of sewing. Gthering Bsting Use on wists of skirts, sleeves of shirts, et. Selet stright stith nd tth presser foot J. 3 Utility Stithes Cut the thred t the end leving 50 mm (pprox. 1-15/16 inhes), nd then tie oth ends together. * Do not sew reverse stith t the end. Set the stith length to 4.0 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) nd the thred tension to pproximtely 2.0 (weker tension). d Insert the ends of the thred into the drt with needle. * If you press fter pressing, the stith length will e set utomtilly to 4.0 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) nd the thred tension will e utomtilly set to 2.0. Pull the oin nd upper threds out y 50 mm (pprox. 1-15/16 inhes) (see pge 23). Upper thred Boin thred Aout 50 mm (pprox. 1-15/16 inhes) 57

69 SEWING THE STITCHES d Sew two rows of stright stithes prllel to the sem line, then trim exess thred leving 50 mm (pprox. 1-15/16 inhes). Flt Fell Sem Use for reinforing sems nd finishing edges netly. Selet nd tth presser foot J. e Sem line 10 to 15 mm (pprox. 3/8 inh to 9/16 inh) Aout 50 mm (pprox. 1-15/16 inhes) Pull the oin threds to otin the desired mount of gther, then tie the threds. Sew the finish line, then ut hlf of the sem llowne from the side on whih the flt fell sem will lie. * When the utomti thred utting nd utomti reinforement stithing re preset, reinforement stithes will e sewn utomtilly t the eginning of sewing. Press the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton to sew reinforement stith nd trim the thred utomtilly t the end of sewing. Aout 12 mm (pprox. 1/2 inh) Wrong side f Smooth the gthers y ironing them. Spred the fri out long the finish line. g Sew on the sem line nd remove the sting stith. d Finish line Wrong side Ly oth sem llownes on the side of the shorter sem (ut sem) nd iron them. Wrong side 58

70 SEWING THE STITCHES e Fold the longer sem llowne round the shorter one, nd sew the edge of the fold. Selet nd tth presser foot I. Sew stright stith long the fold. d * When the utomti thred utting nd utomti reinforement stithing re preset, reinforement stithes will e sewn utomtilly t the eginning of sewing. Press the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton to sew reinforement stith nd trim the thred utomtilly t the end of sewing. Wrong side Finished flt fell sem I 3 Surfe Pintuk e Width for pintuk Wrong side Surfe Iron the folds in the sme diretion. Utility Stithes Mrk long the folds on the wrong side of the fri. Wrong side Turn the fri nd iron the folded prts only. Surfe 59

71 SEWING THE STITCHES Zigzg Stithes Zigzg stithes re useful for oversting, ppliqué, pthwork, nd mny other pplitions. Selet stith, nd tth presser foot J. If the stith whih you selet hs doule mrk t the top of the key disply, you n sew reverse stithes y holding the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton. If the stith whih you selet hs dot mrk t the top of the key disply, you n sew reinforement stithes y holding the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton (see pge 40). Stith Stith nme Presser foot Applitions Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul Twin needle Zigzg stith For oversting, mending. Reverse stith is sewn while pressing Reverse/ Reinforement Stith utton. 3.5 (1/8) (0-1/4) 1.4 (1/16) (0-3/16) OK ( J ) Zigzg stith For oversting, mending. Reinforement stith is sewn while pressing Reverse/ Reinforement Stith utton. 3.5 (1/8) (0-1/4) 1.4 (1/16) (0-3/16) OK ( J ) Zigzg stith (right) Strt from right needle position, zigzg sew t left. 3.5 (1/8) (3/32-3/16) 1.4 (1/16) (1/64-3/16) OK ( J ) Zigzg stith (left) Strt from left needle position, zigzg sew t right. 3.5 (1/8) (3/32-3/16) 1.4 (1/16) (1/64-3/16) OK ( J ) Selet stith. Oversting (Using Zigzg Stith) Sew the oversting long the edge of the fri while positioning the right-hnd side needle drop point just outside the edge of the fri. Atth presser foot J. Needle drop position Appliqué (Using Zigzg Stith) Atth the ppliqué using temporry spry dhesive or sting, then sew it. * Sew zigzg stith while positioning the right-hnd side needle drop point just outside the edge of the fri. 60

72 SEWING THE STITCHES Pthwork (for Crzy Quilt) Turn k the desired width of fri nd position it over the lower fri, then sew so tht the stith ridges oth piees of fri. Snp the ord guide oin over into ple, mking sure tht the gimp thred n e fed freely. * Mke sure there re no restritions when feeding the thred. Sewing Curves (Using Zigzg Stith) Shorten the stith length setting to otin fine stith. Sew slowly, keeping the sems prllel with the fri edge s you guide the fri round the urve. d Set the zigzg width from mm (pprox. 1/16-3/32 inh). Atth presser foot N. e Position the fri right side up on top of f the ord nd ple the ord to the rer of the mhine under the presser foot. 3 Utility Stithes N Cord Guide Boin Cover (Using Zigzg Stith) Remove the oin over from the mhine (see pge 22). Thred the gimp thred through the hole in the ord guide oin over from top to ottom. Position the thred in the noth t the k of the ord guide oin over. g Fri (right side) Gimp thred Lower the presser foot nd strt sewing to mke deortive finish. Noth Gimp thred 61

73 SEWING THE STITCHES Elsti Zigzg Stithes Use elsti zigzg stithes for tpe tthing, oversting, drning, or wide vriety of other uses. Stith Stith nme Presser foot Applitions Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul Twin needle 2 step elsti zigzg Oversting (medium weight nd streth fris), tpe nd elsti 5.0 (3/16) (1/16-1/4) 1.0 (1/16) (1/64-1/16) OK ( J ) 2 step elsti zigzg Oversting (medium weight nd streth fris), tpe nd elsti 5.0 (3/16) (1/16-1/4) 1.0 (1/16) (1/64-1/16) OK ( J ) 3 step elsti zigzg Oversting (medium, hevyweight nd streth fris), tpe nd elsti 5.0 (3/16) (1/16-1/4) 1.0 (1/16) (1/64-1/16) OK ( J ) Selet stith. Tpe Atthing Streth the tpe flt. While strething the tpe flt, sew the tpe to the fri. Atth presser foot J. Tpe Oversting Use this stith to sew oversting on the edge of streth fris. Sew the oversting long the edge of the fri while positioning the right-hnd side needle drop point just outside the edge of the fri. 62

74 SEWING THE STITCHES Oversting Use for the eginning nd end of sems in skirts or trousers, nd the eginning nd end of ll uttings. Use presser foot G, presser foot J, or the side utter tthment depending on the kind of oversting stith you selet. Oversting Using Presser Foot G Stith Stith nme Oversting stith Presser foot Applitions Reinforing of light nd medium weight fris Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 3.5 (1/8) (3/32-3/16) 2.0 (1/16) (1/16-3/16) Twin needle NO Oversting stith Oversting stith Reinforing of hevyweight fri Reinforing of medium, hevyweight nd esily fryle fris or deortive stithing. Selet stith nd tth presser foot G. 5.0 (3/16) 5.0 (3/16) (3/32-3/16) (1/8-3/16) 2.5 (3/32) 2.5 (3/32) (1/16-3/16) (1/16-3/16) Sew long the presser foot guide. NO NO 3 Utility Stithes Guide Lower the presser foot so tht the presser foot guide is set flush ginst the edge of the fri. CAUTION After the stith width is djusted, turn the hndwheel towrd you y hnd nd hek tht the needle does not touh the presser foot. If the needle hits the presser foot, the needle my rek nd use injury. G The needle should not touh If the presser foot is rised to its highest level, the needle my strike the presser foot. 63

75 SEWING THE STITCHES Oversting Using Presser Foot J Stith Stith nme Oversting stith Presser foot Applitions Reinfored seming of streth fri Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 5.0 (3/16) (0-9/32) 2.5 (3/32) (1/32-3/16) Twin needle OK ( J ) Oversting stith Reinforing of medium streth fri nd hevyweight fri, deortive stithing 5.0 (3/16) (0-9/32) 2.5 (3/32) (1/32-3/16) OK ( J ) Oversting stith Reinforement of streth fri or deortive stithing 4.0 (3/16) (0-1/4) 4.0 (3/16) (1/16-3/16) OK ( J ) Oversting stith Streth knit sem 5.0 (3/16) (0-1/4) 4.0 (3/16) (1/16-3/16) NO Single dimond overst Reinforement nd seming streth fri 6.0 (15/ 64) (1/16-1/4) 3.0 (1/8) (1/16-3/16) OK ( J ) Single dimond overst Reinforement of streth fri 6.0 (15/ 64) (1/16-1/4) 1.8 (1/16) (1/16-3/16) OK ( J ) Selet stith nd tth presser foot J. Sew with the needle dropping slightly off the edge of the fri. Needle drop position 64

76 SEWING THE STITCHES Oversting Using the Side Cutter By using the side utter, you n do oversting while utting the fri. CAUTION Mke sure to only selet one of the stithes listed elow. Using nother stith my use the needle to hit the presser foot nd rek, possily using injury. Thred the needle mnully when using the side utter, or only tth the side utter fter threding the needle using the Automti Threding utton. Stith Stith nme With side utter Presser foot Applitions Stright stith while utting fris Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 0.0 (0) (0-3/32) 2.5 (3/32) (1/64-3/16) Twin needle NO 3 With side utter With side utter Zigzg stith while utting fris Oversting stith while utting fris 3.5 (1/8) 3.5 (1/8) (1/8-3/16) (1/8-3/16) 1.4 (1/16) 2.0 (1/16) (0-3/16) (1/16-3/16) NO NO Utility Stithes With side utter Oversting stith while utting fris 5.0 (3/16) (1/8-3/16) 2.5 (3/32) (1/16-3/16) NO With side utter Oversting stith while utting fris 5.0 (3/16) (1/8-3/16) 2.5 (3/32) (1/16-3/16) NO Follow the steps on pge 32 to remove the presser foot. Position the fork on the side utter s operting lever onto the needle lmp srew. Position the side utter so tht the side utter pin is ligned with the noth in the presser foot holder, nd then lower the presser foot. Needle lmp srew Operting lever Noth in presser foot holder Pin The side utter is tthed. Mke sure tht the fork of the operting lever is set onto the needle srew firmly. 65

77 SEWING THE STITCHES d Selet stith. Strt sewing. h A sem llowne is ut while the stithing is sewn. e f Mke ut of pproximtely 20 mm (pprox. 3/4 inh) in the fri. 20 mm (pprox. 3/4 inh) Position the fri so tht the right side of the ut is on top of the guide plte nd the left side of the ut is underneth the presser foot. Note If the width hs een djusted, turn the hndwheel y hnd to hek tht the needle does not touh the side utter. If the needle touhes the side utter, it might use the needle to rek. When Sewing Stright Stithes While Using the Side Cutter The sem mrgin should e pproximtely 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh). Guide plte (lower knife) Presser foot Sem mrgin The fri will not e ut if the whole fri is simply spred out underneth the presser foot guide plte. Set the fri s explined in step f from the previous setion, nd then strt sewing. g Thred the needle mnully nd pull out long setion of the upper thred. Pss it elow the presser foot nd pull it out in the fri feed diretion. One lyer of 13 oz. denim n e ut. Clen the side utter fter use to void hving dust nd srps of thred uild up on it. Add smll mount of oil s required to the utting edge of the utter. Presser foot Upper thred 66

78 SEWING THE STITCHES Quilting You n mke eutiful quilts quikly nd esily with this mhine. When mking quilt, you will find it onvenient to use the knee lifter nd foot ontroller to free your hnds for other tsks (see Using the Foot Controller on pge 39 nd /or see Using the Knee Lifter on pge 46). If there is P or Q t the ottom of the key disply, the indited stith is intended for quilting. Pttern Nme of pttern Pieing stith (Right) Type of presser foot Use Pieework/pthwork 6.5 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) right sem llowne Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 5.5 (7/32) (0-1/4) 2.0 (1/16) (1/64-3/16) Twin needle possiility NO Pieing stith (Middle) Pieing stith (Left) Hnd-look quilting Quilting ppliqué zigzg stith Pieework/pthwork Pieework/pthwork 6.5 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) left sem llowne Quilting stith mde to look like hnd quilting stith Zigzg stith for quilting nd sewing on ppliqué quilt piees 1.5 (1/16) 0.0 (0) 3.5 (1/8) (0-1/4) (0-1/4) (0-1/4) 2.0 (1/16) 2.0 (1/16) 2.5 (3/32) 1.4 (1/16) (1/64-3/16) (1/64-3/16) (1/16-3/16) (0-3/16) NO NO NO NO 3 Utility Stithes Quilting ppliqué stith Quilting stith for invisile ppliqué or tthing inding 1.5 (1/16) (1/64-3/16) 1.8 (1/16) (1/16-3/16) NO Quilting stippling Bkground quilting 7.0 (1/4) (1/16-1/4) 1.6 (1/16) (1/16-3/16) NO 67

79 SEWING THE STITCHES Pieing Sewing two piees of fri together is lled pieing. When utting piees for quilt loks, mke sure the sem llowne is 6.5 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh). Selet or nd tth presser foot J. Align the edge of the fri with the edge of the presser foot, nd strt sewing. * To sew 6.5 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) sem llowne Quilting Sewing together the quilt top, tting, nd king is lled quilting. You n sew the quilt with the wlking foot to keep the quilt top, tting, nd king from sliding. The wlking foot hs set of feed dogs tht move together with the feed dogs in the needle plte during sewing. For stright line quilting, use the wlking foot nd the stright stith needle plte. Alwys selet stright stith (middle needle position) when using the stright stith needle plte. Selet, or. long the left edge of the presser foot with seleted, the width should e set to 5.5 mm (pprox. 7/32 inh). Atth the wlking foot (see pge 33). J 6.5 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) * To sew 6.5 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) sem llowne long the left edge of the presser foot with seleted, the width should e set to 1.5 mm (pprox. 1/32 inh). J Ple one hnd on eh side of the presser foot to hold the fri seure while sewing. Sew t slow to medium speed. Do not sew in reverse or use stithes tht require side wys or reverse feeding. Alwys hek to e sure tht your quilting surfe is seurely sted efore eginning to sew. Speilized mhine quilt needles nd threds re lso ville for mhine quilting. 6.5 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) * To hnge the needle position, use or in the width disply. Using stright stith (middle needle position) mkes it esier to sew smoothly (see pge 53). 68

80 SEWING THE STITCHES Appliqué Tre the pttern onto the ppliqué fri nd then ut round it, leving 3 to 5 mm (pprox. 1/8 to 3/16 inh) sem llowne. d Selet e nd tth presser foot J. Use the quilting ppliqué stith to tth the ppliqué. Sew round the edge while dropping the needle s lose to the edge s possile. J Sem llowne: 3 to 5 mm (pprox. 1/8 to 3/16 inh) Ple piee of thik pper ut to the finished size of the ppliqué design onto the fri, nd then fold over the sem mrgin using n iron. Clip urves when neessry. 3 Utility Stithes Needle drop position Turn the ppliqué over, nd tth the thik pper with sting pins or sting stith. CAUTION Be reful tht the needle does not strike sting pin during sewing. Striking pin n use the needle to rek, resulting in injury. You n use the ppliqué tehnique to tth ppliqué designs like the three pitured elow. Dresden plte Stined glss Sunonnet sue 69

81 SEWING THE STITCHES Quilting with Stin Stithes Use the foot ontroller to sew with stin stithes. If you set the speed ontrol slide to ontrol the stith width, you n mke sutle hnges in the stith width during sewing. Atth the foot ontroller (see pge 39). d Press to use the speed ontrol slide to ontrol the stith width. e Set the width ontrol to ON. Selet nd tth presser foot J. Press in the length disply to shorten the stith length. You n use the speed ontrol slide to djust the stith width. Use the foot ontroller to djust the sewing speed. f Press. The disply will return to the originl sreen. The setting will vry ording to the kind of fri nd the thikness of the thred, ut length of 0.3 to 0.5 mm (pprox. 1/64 to 1/32 inh) is est for stin stithes. Strt sewing g * You n djust the stith width during sewing y moving the sewing speed ontroller. Slide the lever to the left, nd the stith width eomes nrrower. Slide it to the right, the stith width eomes wider. The size of the width hnges eqully on oth sides of the middle needle position. nrrower wider J Rough sketh (line) 70

82 SEWING THE STITCHES Free-motion Quilting With free-motion quilting, the feed dogs n e lowered (using the feed dog position swith) so tht the fri n e moved freely in ny diretion. The quilting foot is needed for free-motion quilting. We reommend tthing the foot ontroller nd sewing t onsistent speed. In order to sew lned stith, it my e neessry to lower the upper thred tension. e Lower the feed dog position swith, loted t the rer of the se of the mhine, to. 3 Selet. d Remove the presser foot holder (see pge 33). Align the quilting foot with the lower-left side of the presser r. The pin on the quilting foot should e positioned over the needle lmp srew. Hold the quilting foot in ple with your right hnd, nd then tighten the presser foot holder srew using the srewdriver in your left hnd. f d Rer of mhine Feed dog position swith (s seen from the rer of the mhine) Up d Down Use oth hnds to streth the fri tut, nd then move the fri t regulr pe in order to sew uniform stithes roughly mm (pprox. 1/16-3/32 inh) in length. Utility Stithes Stith Reinforement stithes re sewn t the eginning nd end of sewing. Pin on quilting foot Presser foot holder srew Needle lmp srew CAUTION Be sure to seurely tighten the srews with the srewdriver. Otherwise, the needle my touh the presser foot, using it to end or rek. After sewing is finished, rise the feed dog g position swith to to rise the feed dogs. Normlly, the feed dog position swith is in the up position. 71

83 SEWING THE STITCHES Blind Hem Stithes Selet from these stithes to sew the hems or uffs of dresses, louses, pnts, or skirts. Stith Stith nme Blind hem stith Presser foot Applitions Hemming woven fris Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 0.0 (0) (+1/8 - -1/8) 2.0 (1/16) (1/16-1/8) Twin needle NO Blind hem stith streth Hemming streth fri 0.0 (0) (+1/8 - -1/8) 2.0 (1/16) (1/16-1/8) NO Selet stith. d Atth lind hem stith foot R, nd lower the presser foot. Position the fri so the folded edge touhes the guide of the presser foot. Guide Fold Ple the fri wrong side up, nd fold nd ste the fri. e Sew the fri, keeping the folded edge in ontt with the presser foot. R 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) Bsting stithes Needle position Fold the fri gin. 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) Wrong side of fri Bsting stithes 72

84 SEWING THE STITCHES f Remove the sting stithes nd turn the fri over. Appliqué Use temporry spry dhesive, fri glue or sting stith to tth the ppliqué to the fri. * This will keep the fri from moving during sewing. Wrong side of fri Right side of fri Blind hem stithes nnot e sewn if the left needle drop point does not th the fold. If the needle thes too muh of the fold, the fri nnot e unfolded nd the sem ppering on the right side of the fri will e very lrge, leving n unttrtive finish. If you experiene either of these ses, follow the instrutions elow to solve the prolem. If the Needle does not Cth the Fold Adjust the width so tht the needle slightly thes the fold y pressing in the width disply. Appliqué Fri glue Selet or. * Adjust the stith length nd width to orrespond to the ppliqué shpe, size, nd qulity of mteril (see pge 42). For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. 3 Utility Stithes Atth presser foot J. Chek tht the needle drops slightly off the edge of the ppliqué, then strt sewing. If the Needle Cthes Too Muh of the Fold Adjust the width so tht the needle slightly thes the fold y pressing in the width disply. Appliqué mteril Needle drop position 73

85 SEWING THE STITCHES Sewing Shrp Curves Stop the mhine with the needle in the fri outside the ppliqué. Rise the presser foot nd turn the fri little it t time while sewing for n ttrtive finish to the sem. To mke rows of shell tuk stithes, fold the fri in hlf long the is. Use thin fri. Pling lightweight ter wy stilizer eneth the stithing re will improve the stith plement long the edge of the ppliqué fri. d Atth presser foot J. Set the needle drop point slightly off the edge of the fri, nd strt sewing. Shelltuk Stithes Shelltuk stithes give n ttrtive pperne to shells long the urve of ollr. This stith pttern n e used for edging the nekline or sleeves of dresses nd louses. Selet. For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. Inrese the upper thred tension for n ttrtive sllop finish to the shelltuk stithes (see pge 43). If the upper thred tension is too wek, the shelltuk stithes will not sllop. e Needle drop position Unfold the fri, nd iron the tuks to one side. To mke shell tuks t the edge of ollr or nekline, follow the pttern s instrutions nd then use this stith to mke deortive finish on the ollr or nekline. 74

86 SEWING THE STITCHES Sllop Stithes Top Stithing This wve-shped running stith is lled the sllop stith. Use this stith to deorte the edges of louse ollrs nd hndkerhiefs or use it s hem ent. Selet. A temporry spry dhesive my e neessry for lightweight fris. Test sew the fri efore sewing projet. For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. Atth presser foot N. Sew sllop stithes long the edge of the fri. * Do not sew diretly on the edge of the fri. For deortive look lled Crzy Quilting, the following stithes n e sewn on top of pressed sem llowne. Selet stright stith nd tth presser foot J. With the right sides fing eh other, sew two piees of fri together, nd then press open the sem llowne. d Stright stith Sem mrgins 6.5 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) d Wrong side d 3 Utility Stithes Selet stith for top stithing. Trim long the sem, mking sure not to ut the stithes. d Ple the fri right side up in the mhine, nd enter the presser foot over the sem when sewing. Right side of fri Use sem selnt to seure the edges of the sllop stithes. 75

87 SEWING THE STITCHES Smoking Stithes Sew the spes etween the stright sems. g Use smoking stithes for deortive sewing on lothes, et. Selet stright stith nd tth presser foot J. Set the stith length to 4.0 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) nd loosen the upper thred tension to pproximtely 2.0 (See pges 42 through 43). Pull the oin nd upper threds out y 50 mm (pprox. 1-15/16 inhes). Pull out the stright stith threds. h J d Sew the sems, leving pproximtely 10 mm (pprox. 3/8 inh) etween the sems, then trim exess thred, leving 50 mm (pprox. 1-15/16 inhes). Fgoting When there is spe etween two fris with thred sewn over the spe to join the fris together, it is lled fgoting. Use this stith when sewing louses or hildren s lothes. e Approximtely 10 mm (pprox. 3/8 inh) Pull the oin threds to otin the desired mount of gther, nd then smooth the gthers y ironing them. Bste two piees of fri onto thin pper, leving spe of 4 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) etween the fris. f Selet or. For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. 4 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) Pper Bsting stithes Selet or. For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. 76

88 SEWING THE STITCHES Atth presser foot J. Align the enter of the presser foot with the middle of the spe etween the fris nd egin sewing. d Ple the tpe over the gther, nd hold it in ple with sting pins. Tpe Bsting stithes e Selet or. d Use thik thred. When sewing is finished, gently ter the pper wy. Tpe or Elsti Atthing f For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. Sew over the tpe (or elsti). 3 Utility Stithes Selet stright stith nd tth presser foot J. Set the stith length to 4.0 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh), nd loosen the upper thred tension to 2.0 (See pges 42 through 43). Be sure tht neither utomti reinforement nor utomti thred utting is seleted. Sew two rows of stright stithes on the right side of the fri, then pull the oin thred to rete the neessry gther. CAUTION Be sure the needle does not strike sting pin, or ny other ojets, during sewing. The thred ould tngle or the needle ould rek, using injury. Pull out the stright stith threds. g Before sewing the stright stith, rotte the hndwheel nd pull up the oin thred. Holding the top nd oin thred, pull length of thred out from the rer of the mhine. (Be sure tht the presser foot is rised.) 77

89 SEWING THE STITCHES Heirloom Hemstithing (1) (Disy Stith) Use for sewing tleloths, deortive hems, nd deortive stithing on shirt fronts. Strt sewing. Exmple: Illustrtion of finished produt Use light to medium weight homespun fri with little stiffness. Insert type 130/705H, size 100/16 Wing needle. CAUTION The Automti Threding utton nnot e used. Thred the wing needle y hnd, from front to k. Using the Automti Threding utton my result in dmge to the mhine. A more ttrtive finish n e otined if you use 130/705H Wing needle when sewing these ptterns. If using wing needle nd the stith width hs een set mnully, hek tht the needle will not touh the presser foot y refully rotting the hndwheel efore strting sewing. Selet stith nd tth presser foot N. * Selet ny stith etween 3-01 nd Hemstithing (2) (Drwn Work) Pull out severl threds from one re on piee of fri to open the re. * Pull out 5 or 6 threds to leve 3 mm (pprox. 1/8 inh) re open. Loosely woven fris work est for this. Selet. For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. Atth presser foot N. With the right side of the fri fing up, sew one edge of the open re. For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. N 78

90 SEWING THE STITCHES d Press stith. e to rete mirror imge of the Sew the opposite side to keep the stith symmetril. Hemstithing (3) Pull out severl threds from oth sides of the 4 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) re whih re not yet open. * Pull out four threds, leve five threds, nd then pull out four threds. The width of five threds is pproximtely 4 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) or less. N Approx. 4 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) or less Four threds (pull out) Five threds (leve) Selet. 3 Utility Stithes For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. Sew the deortive stith in the enter of the five threds reted ove. N A wing needle n e used for Hemstithing (3). 79

91 SEWING THE STITCHES One-step Buttonholes With one-step uttonholes, you n mke uttonholes pproprite to the size of your utton. Stith Stith nme Nrrow rounded uttonhole Presser foot Applitions Buttonhole on light to medium weight fris Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 5.0 (3/16) (1/8-3/16) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) Twin needle NO Wide round ended uttonhole Buttonholes with extr spe for lrger uttons 5.5 (7/32) (1/8-7/32) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO Tpered round ended uttonhole Reinfored wist tpered uttonholes 5.0 (3/16) (1/8-3/16) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO Round ended uttonhole Buttonholes with vertil r tk in hevyweight fris 5.0 (3/16) (1/8-3/16) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO Round ended uttonhole Buttonholes with r tk 5.0 (3/16) (1/8-3/16) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO Round doule ended uttonhole Buttonholes for fine, medium to hevyweight fris 5.0 (3/16) (1/8-3/16) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO Nrrow squred uttonhole Buttonholes for light to medium weight fris 5.0 (3/16) (1/8-3/16) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO Wide squred uttonhole Buttonholes with extr spe for lrger deortive uttons 5.5 (7/32) (1/8-7/32) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO Squred uttonhole Hevy-duty uttonholes with vertil r tks 5.0 (7/32) (1/8-3/16) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO Streth uttonhole Buttonholes for streth or woven fris 6.0 (15/ 64) (1/8-15/64) 1.0 (1/16) (1/32-1/16) NO Heirloom uttonhole Buttonholes for heirloom nd streth fris 6.0 (15/ 64) (1/8-15/64) 1.5 (1/16) (1/1-1/8) NO Bound uttonhole The first step in mking ound uttonholes 5.0 (3/16) (0-15/64) 2.0 (1/16) (1/64-3/16) NO Keyhole uttonhole Buttonholes in hevyweight or thik fris for lrger flt uttons 7.0 (1/4) (1/8-1/4) 0.5 (1/32) (1/64-1/16) NO Tpered keyhole uttonhole Buttonholes in medium to hevy weight fris for lrger flt uttons 7.0 (1/4) (1/8-1/4) 0.5 (1/32) (1/64-1/16) NO Keyhole uttonhole Buttonholes with vertil r tk for reinforement in hevyweight or thik fris 7.0 (1/4) (1/8-1/4) 0.5 (1/32) (1/64-1/16) NO 80

92 SEWING THE STITCHES One-step uttonholes re sewn from the front of the presser foot to the k, s shown elow. 3 Reinforement stithing Utility Stithes Selet uttonhole stith, nd tth uttonhole foot A. Mrk the position nd length of the uttonhole on the fri. Pull out the utton holder plte on the presser foot, nd insert the utton tht will e put through the uttonhole. Then tighten the utton holder plte round the utton. Button holder plte The mximum uttonhole length is out 28 mm (pprox. 1-1/16 inhes) (dimeter + thikness of the utton). The size of the uttonhole is deided y the utton holder plte holding the utton. 81

93 SEWING THE STITCHES d Align the presser foot with the mrk on the fri, nd lower the presser foot. f Gently hold the end of the upper thred, nd then strt sewing. * Feed the fri refully y hnd while the uttonhole is sewn. A Mrk on the fri Mrks on the presser foot Note Pss the thred underneth the presser foot. Slide the outside frme of the uttonhole foot kwrd s fr s possile s shown in the illustrtion, mking sure tht there is no gp ehind the prt of the foot mrked A. If the uttonhole foot is not slid k s fr s possile, the uttonhole will not e sewn t the orret size. g One sewing is ompleted, the mhine utomtilly sews reinforement stithes, nd then stops. If utomti thred utting is turned on efore you strt sewing, oth threds re utomtilly ut fter the reinforement stithes re sewn. If the fri does not feed (for exmple, euse it is too thik), inrese the stith length setting. Insert pin long the inside of one of the r tks, nd then insert the sem ripper into the enter of the uttonhole nd ut towrds the pin. e Lower the uttonhole lever so tht it is positioned ehind the metl rket on the uttonhole foot. Bsting pin Sem ripper Buttonhole lever CAUTION When using the sem ripper to open the uttonhole, do not put your hnd or finger in the pth of the ripper. The ripper my slip nd use injury. Metl rket 82

94 SEWING THE STITCHES For keyhole uttonholes, use the eyelet punh to mke hole in the rounded end of the uttonhole. Then insert pin long the inside of one of the r tks, insert sem ripper into the hole mde with the eyelet punh, nd ut towrds the pin. One sewing is ompleted, gently pull the gimp thred to remove ny slk, nd trim off ny exess. Sewing Streth Fris Eyelet punh Bsting pin When sewing on streth fri with or, sew the uttonhole stithes over gimp thred. Hook the gimp thred onto the k of presser foot A. Insert the ends into the grooves t the front of the presser foot, nd then temporrily tie them there. After using the sem ripper to ut open the threds over the uttonhole, trim off the threds. Odd Shped Buttons/Buttons tht do not Fit into the Button Holder Plte Use the mrkings on the presser foot sle to set the size of the uttonhole. One mrk on the presser foot sle equls 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh). Add the utton dimeter nd thikness together, nd then set the plte t the lulted vlue. 3 Utility Stithes d Upper thred Lower the presser foot nd strt sewing. Presser foot sle Button holder plte Completed mesurement of dimeter + thikness d 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) For exmple, for utton with dimeter of 15 mm (pprox. 9/16 inh) nd thikness of 10 mm (pprox. 3/8 inh), the sle should e set t 25 mm (pprox. 1 inh). Set the width of the stin stithes to the width of the gimp thred, nd set the uttonhole width to e 2-3 times the width of the gimp thred. 10 mm (pprox. 3/8 inh) 15 mm (pprox. 9/16 inh) 83

95 SEWING THE STITCHES Four-step Buttonholes You n sew 4-step uttonholes using the following 4 stithes together. You n sew ny desired length for the uttonhole when using 4-step uttonholes. 4-step uttonholes re good option when tthing oversize uttons. Note When hnging the stith settings for the left side of the uttonhole, mke sure tht ll setting should e hnged to mth. Stith Stith nme Presser foot Applitions 4 step uttonhole 1 Left side of 4 step uttonhole Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 5.0 (7/32) (1/16-1/4) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) Twin needle NO 4 step uttonhole 2 Br tk of 4 step uttonhole 5.0 (7/32) (1/16-1/4) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO 4 step uttonhole 3 Right side of 4 step uttonhole 5.0 (7/32) (1/16-1/4) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO 4 step uttonhole 4 Br tk of 4 step uttonhole 5.0 (7/32) (1/16-1/4) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) NO Four-step uttonholes re sewn s shown elow. Mrk the position nd length of the uttonhole on the fri. Atth monogrmming foot N, nd selet stith to sew the left side of the uttonhole. 84

96 SEWING THE STITCHES d Press the Strt/Stop utton to strt sewing. Sew the desired length for the uttonhole nd press the Strt/Stop utton gin. Selet stith to sew the r tk nd e press the Strt/Stop utton. The mhine will utomtilly stop fter sewing the r tk. f Selet stith to sew the right side of the uttonhole, nd press the Strt/Stop utton to egin sewing. 3 Utility Stithes g Sew the right side of the uttonhole nd press the Strt/Stop utton gin. * Sew the right side of the uttonhole the sme length s the left. Selet stith to sew the r tk nd h then press the Strt/Stop utton. The mhine will utomtilly sew off the r tk tie nd stop when the r tk is omplete. i Rise the presser foot nd remove the fri. Refer to pge 82 to open the uttonhole. j 85

97 SEWING THE STITCHES Drning Use drning stithes for mending nd other pplitions. Stith Drning Stith nme Presser foot Applitions Drning of medium weight fri Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 7.0 (1/4) (3/32-1/4) 2.0 (1/16) (1/64-1/16) Twin needle NO Drning Drning of hevyweight fri 7.0 (1/4) (3/32-1/4) 2.0 (1/16) (1/64-1/16) NO Drning is performed y sewing from the front of the presser foot to the k s shown elow. Reinforement stithes Selet stith, nd tth uttonhole foot A. Set the sle to the desired length of the drning. Chek tht the needle drops t the desired position nd lower the presser foot, mking sure the upper thred psses underneth the uttonhole foot. d Presser foot sle Completed length mesurement Width 7 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) d 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) The mximum length for drning is 28 mm (pprox. 1-1/16 inhes). Note Pss the thred underneth the presser foot. Set the presser foot so tht there is no gp ehind the setion mrked with n A (the shded re in the illustrtion elow). If there is gp, the size of the drning will not e orret. 86

98 SEWING THE STITCHES d Lower the uttonhole lever so tht it is positioned ehind the metl rket on the uttonhole foot. Buttonhole lever 3 e Metl rket Gently hold the end of the upper thred, nd then press the Strt/Stop utton to strt the mhine. Utility Stithes One sewing is ompleted, the mhine utomtilly sews reinforement stithes, nd then stops. If utomti thred utting is turned on efore you strt sewing, oth threds re utomtilly ut fter the reinforement stithes re sewn. If the fri does not feed (for exmple, euse it is too thik), inrese the stith length setting. 87

99 SEWING THE STITCHES Br Tks Use r tks to reinfore res tht will e sujet to strin, suh s poket orners. Stith Br tk Stith nme Presser foot Applitions Reinforement t opening of poket, et. Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 2.0 (1/16) (1/16-1/8) 0.4 (1/64) (1/64-1/16) Twin needle NO Selet. Set the fri so tht the poket moves towrds you during sewing. Atth uttonhole foot A nd set the sle to the length of the r tk you wish to sew. Presser foot sle Completed length mesurement 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) Br tks n e etween 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) nd 28 mm (pprox. 1-1/16 inhes). Br tks re usully etween 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) nd 10 mm (pprox. 3/8 inh). Note Pss the thred underneth the presser foot. Slide the outside frme of the uttonhole foot kwrd s fr s possile s shown in the illustrtion, mking sure tht there is no gp ehind the prt of the foot mrked A. If the uttonhole foot is not slid k s fr s possile, the r tk will not e sewn to the orret size. d Chek the first needle drop point nd lower the presser foot. 2 mm (pprox. 1/16 inh) 88

100 SEWING THE STITCHES e Lower the uttonhole lever so tht it is positioned ehind the metl rket on the uttonhole foot. Br Tks on Thik Fris Ple piee of folded fri or rdord eside the fri eing sewn to level the uttonhole foot nd llow for esier feeding. f Metl rket Gently hold the end of the upper thred nd egin sewing. Presser foot Thik pper If utomti thred utting is turned on efore you strt sewing, oth threds re utomtilly ut fter the reinforement stithes re sewn. If the fri does not feed (for exmple, euse it is too thik), inrese the stith length setting. 3 Utility Stithes When sewing is ompleted, the mhine will sew reinforement stithes nd stop utomtilly. 89

101 SEWING THE STITCHES Button Sewing Buttons n e sewn on using the mhine. Buttons with 2 or 4 holes n e tthed. Stith Stith nme Button sewing Presser foot Applitions Atthing uttons Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 3.5 (1/8) (3/32-3/16) Twin needle NO Note Do not use the utomti thred utting funtion when sewing uttons. Otherwise, you will lose the thred ends. Selet. d Rise the presser foot nd deth the flt ed tle tthment. Lower the feed dog position swith to to lower the feed dogs. Feed dog position swith Atth utton sewing foot M, slide the utton long the metl plte nd into the presser foot, nd lower the presser foot. e f g Turn the hndwheel to hek tht the needle goes into eh hole orretly. * If the needle does not reh the holes on the left side, djust the stith width. * To tth the utton more seurely, repet the proess. Gently hold the end of the upper thred nd strt sewing. The mhine stops utomtilly when sewing is finished. CAUTION Mke sure the needle does not strike the utton during sewing. The needle my rek nd use injury. From the wrong side of the fri, pull the end of the oin thred to pull the upper thred through to the wrong side of the fri. Tie the two thred ends together nd ut the threds. Button Metl plte 90

102 SEWING THE STITCHES Atthing 4 Hole Buttons Sew the two holes losest to you. Then rise the presser foot nd move the fri so tht the needle goes into the next two holes, nd sew them in the sme wy. Tie the ends of the oin thred from the eginning nd end of sewing together on the wrong side of the fri. Note When sewing is ompleted, e sure to return the feed dog position swith to its originl position. Atthing Shnk to the Button Pull the shnk lever towrd you efore sewing. Feed dog position swith 3 Utility Stithes Shnk lever Pull the two ends of the upper thred etween the utton nd the fri, wind them round the shnk, nd then tie them firmly together. 91

103 SEWING THE STITCHES Eyelet Use this stith for mking elt holes nd other similr pplitions. Stith Eyelet Stith nme Presser foot Applitions For mking eyelets, holes on elts, et. Stith width [mm (inh.)] Stith length [mm (inh.)] Auto. Mnul Auto. Mnul 7.0 (1/4) (1/4 15/64 3/16) 7.0 (1/4) (1/4 15/64 3/16) Twin needle NO Str eyelet For mking str-shped eyelets on holes. NO Use Selet or. in either the stith width disply or the stith length disply to hoose the size of the eyelet. Lower the presser foot nd strt sewing. d When sewing is finished, the mhine sews reinforement stithes nd stops utomtilly. e Note If the stith pttern omes out poorly, mke djustments (see pge 103). Use the eyelet punh to mke hole in the enter of the stithing. (Atul Lrge 7 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh) Medium 6 mm (pprox. 15/64 inh) Smll 5 mm (pprox. 3/16 inh) Note Only one size is ville for. Atth monogrmming foot N, then turn the hndwheel to hek the needle drop position. Needle drop position 92

104 SEWING THE STITCHES Multi-diretionl Sewing (Stright Stith nd Zigzg Stith) Use these stith ptterns to tth pthes or emlems to pnt legs, shirt sleeves, et. Set the needle in the fri t the sewing strt point, nd sew sem 1 s shown. Remove the flt ed tthment to rete the free rm funtion. Strt Point d Selet nd sew sem 2 s shown. * The fri will move sidewys, so guide the fri y hnd to keep sewing stright. 3 Pss the free rm through tuulr piee of fri, nd then sew in the order shown in the illustrtion. Utility Stithes e Selet nd sew sem 3 s shown. Selet N. nd tth monogrmming foot The fri feeds forwrd while stithing kwrd. f Selet nd sew sem 4 s shown. For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. The sem will e onneted to the strting point of sem 1. 93

105 SEWING THE STITCHES Zipper Insertion Centered Zipper Use for gs nd other suh pplitions. Selet. Press the sem llowne open nd tth the zipper with sting stith in the middle of eh side of the zipper tpe. d Bsting stithes Zipper Wrong side Remove presser foot J. Align the right side of the pin in zipper foot I with the presser foot holder, nd tth the zipper foot. For detils on eh stith, refer to the STITCH SETTING CHART t the end of this mnul. Note Mke sure you sew using the middle needle position. Atth presser foot J nd sew stright stithes up to the zipper opening. Chnge to sting stith (see pge 56) nd sew to the top of the fri. d Bsting stithes Reverse stithes End of zipper opening d Wrong side e Right Left Needle drop position CAUTION When using zipper foot I, mke sure the stright stith, middle needle position is seleted. Turn the hndwheel to mke sure the needle does not strike the presser foot. If nother stith is seleted, the needle will strike the presser foot, using the needle to rek nd possily using injury. Topstith 7 to 10 mm (pprox. 1/4 to 3/8 inh) from the semed edge of the fri, then remove the sting. 94

106 SEWING THE STITCHES CAUTION Mke sure the needle does not strike the zipper during sewing. If the needle strikes the zipper, the needle my rek, leding to injury. Inserting Side Zipper Use for side zippers in skirts or dresses. Press the sem llowne open nd lign the folded hem long the teeth of the zipper, while mintining 3 mm (pprox. 1/8 inh) of sewing spe. Selet. d e d e Zipper pull t Wrong side of fri Zipper teeth d End of zipper opening e 3 mm (pprox. 1/8 inh) Remove presser foot J. Align the right side of the pin in zipper foot I with the presser foot holder, nd tth the presser foot. 3 Utility Stithes Note Mke sure you sew using the middle needle position. Atth presser foot J nd sew stright stithes up to the zipper opening. Chnge to sting stith nd sew to the top of the fri. d Reverse stithes Wrong side of fri Bsting stithes d End of zipper opening Right Left Needle drop position CAUTION When using zipper foot I, mke sure the stright stith, middle needle position is seleted. Turn the hndwheel to mke sure the needle does not strike the presser foot. If nother stith is seleted, the needle will strike the presser foot, using the needle to rek nd possily using injury. 95

107 SEWING THE STITCHES f g Set the presser foot in the 3 mm (pprox. 1/8 inh) mrgin. Strting from the end of the zipper opening, sew to point out 50 mm (pprox. 2 inhes) from the edge of the fri, then stop the mhine. j Remove the presser foot, nd retth it so tht the left side of the pin is tthed to the presser foot holder. * When sewing the left side of the zipper, the needle should drop on the right side of the presser foot. When sewing the right side of the zipper, the needle should drop on the left side of the presser foot. h Pull down the zipper slider, then ontinue sewing to the edge of the fri. i 50 mm (pprox. 2 inhes) 3 mm (pprox. 1/8 inh) CAUTION Mke sure the needle does not strike the zipper during sewing. If the needle strikes the zipper, the needle my rek, leding to injury. Close the zipper, turn the fri over, nd sew sting stith. k l m Right Left Needle drop position Set the fri so tht the left edge of the presser foot touhes the edge of the zipper teeth. Sew reverse stithes t the top of the zipper, then ontinue sewing. Stop sewing out 50 mm (pprox. 2 inhes) from the edge of the fri, leve the needle in the fri, nd remove the sting stithes. n Open the zipper nd sew the rest of the sem. d Front of the skirt (wrong side of fri) Bsting stithes Front of the skirt (right side of fri) d Bk of the skirt (right side of fri) d Bsting stithes 7 to 10 mm (pprox. 1/4 inh to 3/8 inh) Reverse stithes d 50 mm (pprox. 2 inhes) 96

108 Chpter 4 Chrter/ Deortive Stithes SELECTING STITCH PATTERNS...98 Stith Seletion Sreens Seleting Deortive Stith Ptterns/7mm Deortive Stith Ptterns/Stin Stith Ptterns/ 7mm Stin Stith Ptterns/Cross Stith/Utility Deortive Stith Ptterns Alphet Chrters Deleting Chrters SEWING STITCH PATTERNS Sewing Attrtive Finishes Bsi Sewing Mking Adjustments EDITING STITCH PATTERNS Key Funtions Chnging the Size Chnging the Length (for 7mm Stin Stith Ptterns Only) Creting Vertil Mirror Imge Creting Horizontl Mirror Imge Sewing Pttern Continuously Chnging Thred Density (for Stin Stith Ptterns Only) Cheking the Imge COMBINING STITCH PATTERNS Before Comining Comining Vrious Stith Ptterns Comining Lrge nd Smll Stith Ptterns Comining Horizontl Mirror Imge Stith Ptterns Comining Stith Ptterns of Different Length Mking Step Stith Ptterns (for 7mm Stin Stith Ptterns Only) More Exmples USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Stith Dt Preutions Types of Stith Dt tht n e Used Types of USB Devies/Medi tht n e Used Computers nd Operting Systems with the Following Speifitions n e Used Preutions on Using the Computer to Crete nd Sve Dt Trdemrks Sving Stith Ptterns in the Mhine s ry If the ry is Full Sving Stith Ptterns to USB Medi (Commerilly Aville) Sving Stith Ptterns in the Computer Retrieving Stith Ptterns from the Mhine s ry Relling from USB Medi Relling from the Computer

109 SELECTING STITCH PATTERNS SELECTING STITCH PATTERNS Press to disply the sreen elow. e h l d g j k f i m n Deortive stith ptterns 7mm deortive stith ptterns. You n set stith length nd width. Stin stith ptterns d 7mm stin stith ptterns. You n set stith length nd width. e Cross stith f Utility deortive stith ptterns g Alphet hrters (gothi font) h Alphet hrters (hndwriting font) i Alphet hrters (outline) j Ptterns stored in MY CUSTOM STITCH (see pge 208) k Ptterns sved in the mhine s memory (see pge 122) l Ptterns sved in USB medi (see pge 123) m Ptterns sved on the omputer (see pge 123) n Press this key to rete your own stithes with the MY CUSTOM STITCH funtion (see pge 202). Note If the sreen is loked ( ), unlok the sreen y pressing. While the sreen is loked, no other key n e operted. 98

110 SELECTING STITCH PATTERNS Stith Seletion Sreens There re 9 tegories of Chrter/Deortive stith ptterns. indites tht there is more thn one stith seletion sreen for tht tegory. Deortive Stith Ptterns 7mm Deortive Stith Ptterns Stin Stith Ptterns 7mm Stin Stith Ptterns Cross Stith Utility Deortive Stith Ptterns 4 Alphet Chrters (Gothi Font) Alphet Chrters (Hndwriting Font) Alphet Chrters (Outline) Chrter/Deortive Stithes 99

111 SELECTING STITCH PATTERNS Seleting Deortive Stith Ptterns/7mm Deortive Stith Ptterns/Stin Stith Ptterns/ 7mm Stin Stith Ptterns/Cross Stith/Utility Deortive Stith Ptterns Alphet Chrters Press, or to selet font. Selet the tegory of the pttern you wnt to sew. Press the key of the stith pttern you wnt to sew. * Press to view the next pge. * Press to view the previous pge. * To selet different stith pttern, press. When the urrent stith pttern is ersed, selet the new stith pttern. Press to hnge the seletion sreen, nd then enter the hrters tht you wnt to sew. * If you wnt to ontinue entering hrters in different font, press step., nd then repet from The seleted pttern is displyed. There re three fonts for lphet hrter stithing. 100

112 SELECTING STITCH PATTERNS Deleting Chrters Press to delete the lst hrter. Chrters re deleted individully strting with the lst hrter entered. Selet the orret hrter. 4 Chrter/Deortive Stithes 101

113 SEWING STITCH PATTERNS SEWING STITCH PATTERNS Sewing Attrtive Finishes To hieve ttrtive results when sewing hrter/deortive stithes, hek the tle elow for the proper fri/needle/thred omintions. Note Other ftors, suh s fri thikness, stilizer mteril, et., lso hve n effet on the stith, so you should lwys sew few tril stithes efore eginning your projet. When sewing stin stith ptterns, there my e shrinking or unhing of stithes, so e sure to tth stilizer mteril. Guide the fri with your hnd to keep the fri feeding stright nd even during sewing. Fri When sewing on streth fris, lightweight fris, or fris with orse weves, tth stilizer on the wrong side of the fri. If you do not wish to do so, ple the fri on thin pper suh s tring pper. N Fri Stilizer Thin pper Thred #50 - #60 Needle With lightweight, regulr, or streth fris: the Bll point needle (golden olored) With hevyweight fris: home sewing mhine needle 90/14 Presser foot Monogrmming foot N. Using nother presser foot my give inferior results. Bsi Sewing d Press the Strt/Stop utton to strt sewing. Selet stith pttern. Atth monogrmming foot N. Ple the fri under the presser foot, pull the upper thred out to the side, nd then lower the presser foot. CAUTION When sewing 7 mm stin stith ptterns nd the stithes re unhed, lengthen the stith length. If you ontinue sewing when the stithes re unhed, the needle my end or rek (see Setting the Stith Length on pge 42). 102

114 SEWING STITCH PATTERNS e f If the fri is pulled or pushed during sewing, the pttern my not turn out orretly. Also, depending on the pttern, there my e movement to the left nd right s well s front nd k. Guide the fri with your hnd to keep the fri feeding stright nd even during sewing. Press the Strt/Stop utton to stop sewing. Press the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton to sew reinforement stithes. Mking Adjustments Your stith pttern my sometimes turn out poorly, depending on the type or thikness of fri, the stilizer mteril used, sewing speed, et. If your sewing does not turn out well, sew tril stithes using the sme onditions s the rel sewing, nd djust the stith pttern s explined elow. If the pttern does not turn out well even fter mking djustments sed on the pttern, mke djustments for eh pttern individully. Press nd selet on P.10. When sewing hrter stithes, the mhine utomtilly sews reinforement stithes t the eginning nd end of eh hrter. 4 Chrter/Deortive Stithes When sewing is ompleted, trim ny exess thred. Atth monogrmming foot N nd sew the pttern. Note When sewing some ptterns, the needle will stop in the rised position while the fri is fed due to the opertion of the needle r seprtion mehnism whih is used in this mhine. At suh times, liking sound different from the sound generted during sewing will e herd. This sound is norml nd is not the sign of mlfuntion. Compre the finished pttern to the illustrtion of the orret pttern elow. 103

115 SEWING STITCH PATTERNS d Press, nd then djust the pttern with the FINE ADJUST VERTI. or HORIZ. displys. Sew the stith pttern gin. e * If the stith pttern still omes out poorly, mke djustments gin. Adjust until the stith pttern omes out orretly. You n sew with the setting sreen on the disply. f Press sreen. to return to the originl * If the pttern is unhed: Press in the FINE ADJUST VERTI. disply. The displyed vlue inreses eh time the utton is pressed nd the pttern will lengthen. * If the pttern hs gps: Press in the FINE ADJUST VERTI. disply. The displyed vlue dereses eh time the utton is pressed nd the pttern will shorten. * If the pttern is skewed to the left: Press in the FINE ADJUST HORIZ. disply. The displyed vlue inreses eh time the utton is pressed nd the pttern will slide to the right. * If the pttern is skewed to the right: Press in the FINE ADJUST HORIZ. disply. The displyed vlue dereses eh time the utton is pressed nd the pttern will slide to the left. 104

116 EDITING STITCH PATTERNS EDITING STITCH PATTERNS Key Funtions You n rete just the finish you wnt using the editing funtions. Mke ptterns lrger or smller, mke mirror imges, et. Note Some editing funtions nnot e used with ertin stith ptterns. Only the funtions for the displyed keys re ville when pttern is seleted. 4 e f h d g i l m e f h j d k l m Chrter/Deortive Stithes n o n o No. Disply Key Nme Explntion Pge Automti reinforement stith key Press this key to turn on the utomti reinforement stithing mode. 44 Automti thred utting key Press this key to turn on the utomti thred utting mode. 45 Sreen lok key Press this key to lok the sreen. When the sreen is loked, the vrious settings, suh s the stith width nd stith length, re loked nd nnot e hnged. Press this key gin to unlok the settings. d Imge key Press this key to hek lrge omintion ptterns e Horizontl mirror imge key After seleting the stith pttern, use this key to rete horizontl mirror imge of the stith pttern. 107 f Vertil mirror imge key After seleting the stith pttern, use this key to rete vertil mirror imge of the stith pttern. 107 g Needle mode seletion key (Single/Doule) Press this key to hoose single needle sewing or twin needle sewing

117 EDITING STITCH PATTERNS No. Disply Key Nme Explntion Pge h Single/Repet sewing key Press this key to hoose single stithes or ontinuous stithes. 107 i Elongtion key When 7mm stin stith ptterns re seleted, press this key to hoose from 5 utomti length settings, without hnging the stith zigzg width or stith length settings. j Size seletion key Use this key to selet the size of the stith pttern (lrge, smll) k Thred density key After seleting the stith pttern, use this key to hnge the thred density of the pttern. 108 l Delete key When you mke mistke seleting stith pttern, use this key to delete the mistke. When you mke mistke in omining stith ptterns, use this key to delete stith ptterns. 100, 101 m ry key Use this key to sve stith pttern omintions n Stith width nd stith length key Shows the stith width nd stith length of the seleted stith pttern. The mhine hs defult settings o Thred tension key Shows the thred tension setting for the seleted stith pttern. The mhine hs defult settings. 43 Chnging the Size Selet stith pttern, then press to hnge the size of the stith pttern. The stith pttern will e sewn in the size highlighted on the key. If you ontinue entering stith ptterns fter hnging the size, those ptterns will lso e sewn in tht size. You nnot hnge the size of omined stith ptterns one the stith pttern is entered. Atul Stith Pttern Size L S L S 106

118 EDITING STITCH PATTERNS Chnging the Length (for 7mm Stin Stith Ptterns Only) When stith ptterns re seleted, press to hoose from 5 utomti length settings, without hnging the stith zigzg width or stith length settings. Creting Horizontl Mirror Imge To rete horizontl mirror imge, selet stith pttern then press. 4 Creting Vertil Mirror Imge To rete vertil mirror imge, selet stith pttern then press. Sewing Pttern Continuously Press to selet ontinuous sewing or single stith sewing. Chrter/Deortive Stithes To finish omplete motif while sewing the pttern ontinuously, you n press the key while sewing. The mhine will utomtilly stop when the motif is finished. 107

119 EDITING STITCH PATTERNS Chnging Thred Density (for Stin Stith Ptterns Only) After seleting the pttern, press your preferred thred density. to selet Cheking the Imge You n disply n tul size imge of the seleted stith pttern. You n lso hek nd hnge the olors of the imge on the sreen. Press. An imge of the seleted pttern is displyed. CAUTION If the stithes unh when thred density is hnged to, return the thred density to. If you ontinue sewing when the stithes re unhed, the needle my end or rek. Press the imge. to hnge the thred olor in Even if you selet new pttern fter hnging the thred density, the thred density remins the sme until you hnge it. You nnot hnge thred density for omined pttern fter the omintion is finished. The olor hnges every time you press the utton. 108

120 EDITING STITCH PATTERNS Press to disply the enlrged imge. d Use to view ny prt of the imge tht extends out of the viewle disply re. 4 Chrter/Deortive Stithes e Press sreen. to return to the originl You n lso sew from this sreen when the presser foot symol is displyed. 109

121 COMBINING STITCH PATTERNS COMBINING STITCH PATTERNS You n omine mny vrieties of stith ptterns, suh s hrter stithes, ross stithes, stin stithes, or stithes you design with MY CUSTOM STITCH funtion (see hpter 7 for informtion out MY CUSTOM STITCH). You n lso omine stith ptterns of different sizes, mirror imge stith ptterns, nd others. Before Comining Single stith sewing is utomtilly seleted for sewing omined ptterns. If you wnt to sew the pttern ontinuously, press fter finishing the stith pttern omintion. When hnging sizes, reting mirror imges, or mking other djustments to omined stith pttern, e sure to edit the seleted stith pttern efore seleting the next one. You nnot edit stith pttern one the next stith pttern is seleted. Comining Vrious Stith Ptterns Selet. Exmple: Press. 110

122 COMBINING STITCH PATTERNS Press. e Selet. The disply returns to the stith seletion sreen. d Press. f Press. 4 Chrter/Deortive Stithes Ptterns re deleted individully strting with the lst pttern entered y pressing. g Press to sew the pttern ontinuously. * Press to view the ompleted pttern (see pge 108). 111

123 COMBINING STITCH PATTERNS Comining Lrge nd Smll Stith Ptterns Exmple: Press to sew ontinuously. The entered pttern is repeted. Press. The lrge size stith will e seleted. Comining Horizontl Mirror Imge Stith Ptterns Exmple: Press gin, then press to selet the smll size. The pttern is displyed in smller size. 112

124 COMBINING STITCH PATTERNS Press. Comining Stith Ptterns of Different Length Press gin, then press. Exmple: 4 The pttern is flipped long vertil xis. Press. Press, then press one. The length of the imge is set to. Selet gin, then press 3 times. Chrter/Deortive Stithes The entered pttern is repeted. The length of the imge is set to. 113

125 COMBINING STITCH PATTERNS Press. Exmple: Press. Press. The entered pttern is repeted. Mking Step Stith Ptterns (for 7mm Stin Stith Ptterns Only) You n use the keys with 7mm stin stith ptterns to rete step effet. Stith ptterns sewn so tht they rete step effet re lled step stith ptterns. * Press to move the stith pttern distne equl to hlf of the stith pttern s size to the left. * Press to move the stith pttern distne equl to hlf of the stith pttern s size to the right. The next stith pttern will move to the right. Press gin. 114

126 COMBINING STITCH PATTERNS d Press. More Exmples Press. The next stith pttern will move to the left. e Press. Press. 4 Press. Chrter/Deortive Stithes The entered pttern is repeted. Press. 115

127 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Stith Dt Preutions Oserve the following preutions when using stith dt other thn tht reted nd sved in this mhine. Types of Stith Dt tht n e Used Only.pmu stith dt files n e used with this mhine. Using dt other thn tht reted using this mhine my use the mhine to mlfuntion. Types of USB Devies/Medi tht n e Used Stith dt n e sved to or relled from USB medi. Use medi tht meets the following speifitions. USB Floppy disk drive USB Flsh drive (USB Flsh memory) Stith dt n e relled only. USB CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW drives You n lso use the following types of USB medi with the USB ry Crd Reder/Writer. Seure Digitl (SD) Crd ComptFlsh ry Stik Smrt Medi Multi Medi Crd (MMC) XD-Piture Crd Note Some USB medi my not e usle with this mhine. Plese visit our wesite for more detils. USB hus nnot e used with this mhine. The mhine will not reognize the ove USB devies or USB memory rds through USB hu. The ess lmp will egin linking fter inserting USB Devies/Medi, nd it will tke out 5 to 6 seonds to reognize the Devies/Medi. (Time will differ depending on the USB Devie/Medi). When file folder is neessry to rete, use omputer. Computers nd Operting Systems with the Following Speifitions n e Used Comptile models: IBM PC with USB port s stndrd equipment IBM PC-omptile omputer equipped with USB port s stndrd equipment Comptile operting systems: Mirosoft Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP (Windows 98SE requires driver. Downlod the driver from our We site ( In ddition, only Windows 98 Seond Edition n use the driver.). Preutions on Using the Computer to Crete nd Sve Dt If the file nme of stith dt nnot e identified, for exmple, euse the nme ontins speil hrters, the file is not displyed. If this ours, hnge the nme of the file. 116

128 Trdemrks USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Seure Digitl (SD) Crd is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of SD Crd Assoition. ComptFlsh is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Sndisk Corportion. ry Stik is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Sony Corportion. Smrt Medi is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Toshi Corportion. Multi Medi Crd (MMC) is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Infineon Tehnologies AG. xd-piture Crd is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. IBM is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Interntionl Business Mhines Corportion. Mirosoft nd Windows re registered trdemrks or trdemrks of Mirosoft Corportion. Eh ompny whose softwre title is mentioned in this mnul hs Softwre Liense Agreement speifi to its proprietry progrms. All other rnds nd produt nmes mentioned in this mnul re registered trdemrks of their respetive ompnies. However, the explntions for mrkings suh s nd re not lerly desried within the text. CAUTION When disonneting the USB le: Before disonneting the USB le, lik the Unplug or Ejet Hrdwre ion in the tskr of Windows(r) Me/2000 or the Sfely Remove Hrdwre ion in the tskr of Windows(r) XP. Then, when the removle disk n sfely e removed, disonnet the USB le from the omputer nd the mhine. 4 With Windows 98 SE, hek tht the Aess lmp is not flshing efore disonneting the USB le from the omputer nd the mhine. Chrter/Deortive Stithes 117

129 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Sving Stith Ptterns in the Mhine s ry You n sve often-used stith ptterns in the mhine s memory. The mhine s memory n hold up to 20 stith ptterns. Press. * Press to return to the originl sreen without sving. Note Do not turn the min power to OFF while the Sving sreen is displyed. You will lose the stith pttern you re sving. It tkes few seonds to sve stith pttern. See pge 122 for informtion on retrieving sved stith pttern. Press. The Sving sreen is displyed. When the pttern is sved, the disply returns to the originl sreen utomtilly. If the ry is Full If this sreen ppers while you re trying to sve pttern on the mhine s memory, the memory is too full to hold the urrently seleted stith pttern. To sve the stith pttern in the mhine s memory, you hve to delete previously sved stith pttern. Press. * Press to return to the originl sreen without sving. 118

130 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Choose stith pttern to delete. * Press so the pttern sved in tht poket ppers. If the entire sved stith pttern is not displyed, press to view the entire stith pttern. * Press if you deide not to delete the stith pttern. d Press. * If you deide not to delete the stith pttern, press. Pokets holding sved stith ptterns Press. The mhine deletes the stith pttern, then utomtilly sves the new stith pttern. 4 Chrter/Deortive Stithes A onfirmtion messge ppers. 119

131 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Sving Stith Ptterns to USB Medi (Commerilly Aville) When sending stith ptterns from the mhine to USB medi, plug the USB medi into the mhine s USB port. Depending on the type of USB medi eing used, either diretly plug the USB devie into the mhine s USB port or plug the USB Crd Writer/Reder into the mhine s USB port. Some USB medi my not e usle with this mhine. Plese visit our we site for more detils. Press. Insert the USB medi into the USB port onnetor on the mhine. USB port onnetor for medi USB medi The USB medi n e inserted or removed t ny time. Do not insert nything other thn USB medi into the USB medi port onnetor. Otherwise, the USB medi drive my e dmged. Press. * Press to return to the originl sreen without sving. The Sving sreen is displyed. When the pttern is sved, the disply returns to the originl sreen utomtilly. 120

132 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Sving Stith Ptterns in the Computer Press. Using the inluded USB le, the stith mhine n e onneted to your omputer, nd the stith ptterns n e temporrily retrieved from nd sved on your omputer. Note Do not turn the min power to OFF while the Sving sreen is displyed. You will lose the stith pttern you re sving. Plug the USB le onnetor into the orresponding USB port onnetors for the omputer nd for the mhine. * The USB le n e plugged into the USB port onnetors on the omputer nd mhine whether or not they re turned on. Press. * Press to return to the originl sreen without sving. 4 Chrter/Deortive Stithes USB port onnetor for omputer USB le onnetor The Removle Disk ion will pper in My Computer on the omputer. Note The onnetors on the USB le n only e inserted into onnetor in one diretion. If it is diffiult to insert the onnetor, do not insert it with fore nd hek the orienttion of the onnetor. For detils on the position of the USB port on the omputer, refer to the instrution mnul for the orreesponding equipment. The stith pttern will e temporrily sved to Removle Disk under My Computer. 121

133 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION d Selet the stith pttern s.pmu file nd opy the file to the omputer. Choose stith pttern to retrieve. * Press so the pttern sved in tht poket ppers. If the entire sved stith pttern is not displyed, press to view the entire stith pttern. * Press to return to the originl sreen without sving. Note Do not turn off the mhine while the Sving sreen is showing. You my lose the dt. Retrieving Stith Ptterns from the Mhine s ry Press. Pokets holding sved stith ptterns Press. * Press to delete the stith pttern. The poket seletion sreen ppers. The seleted stith pttern is retrieved nd the sewing sreen will e displyed. 122

134 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Relling from USB Medi d Press the key of the stith pttern you wnt to rell. You n rell speifi stith pttern from either diretly USB medi or folder in the USB medi. If the stith pttern is under the folder, move down lyers of folders following pth to it. Insert the USB Medi into the USB port onnetor on the mhine (see pge 120). Press. e Press. * Press to delete the stith pttern. 4 Stih ptterns nd folder in top folder re displyed. Press when there is sufolder to sort two or more stith ptterns to USB medi, the stith pttern in the sufolder is displyed. * Press to return to the originl sreen without relling. The seleted stith pttern is relled nd the sewing sreen will e displyed. Chrter/Deortive Stithes Folder nme Stith ptterns in top folder: key shows only the first pttern over if the ptterns is omined. Pth The pth shows the urrent holder t the top of the list. Stith ptterns nd folder in sufolder re displyed. * Press to return to the previous folder. 123

135 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Relling from the Computer d Press. Plug the USB le onnetor into the orresponding USB onnetors for the omputer nd for the mhine (see pge 121). On the omputer, open My Computer then go to Removle Disk. e The stith ptterns in the omputer re displyed on the seletion sreen. Press the key of the stith pttern you wnt to rell. * Press to return to the originl sreen without relling. Move/opy the pttern dt to Removle Disk. f Press. * Press to delete the stith pttern. Stith pttern dt in Removle Disk is written to the mhine. Note While dt is eing written, do not disonnet the USB le. Do not rete folders within Removle Disk. Sine folders re not displyed, stith pttern dt within folders nnot e relled. The seleted stith pttern is relled nd the sewing sreen will e displyed. Note The pttern relled from the omputer is only temporrily written to the mhine. It is ersed from the mhine when the mhine is turned off. If you wish to keep the stith pttern, store it in the mhine (see Sving Stith Ptterns in the Mhine s ry on pge 118). 124

136 Chpter 5 Emroidery BEFORE EMBROIDERING Emroidery Step y Step Atthing Emroidery Foot W Atthing the Emroidery Unit Aout the Emroidery Unit Removing the Emroidery Unit SELECTING PATTERNS Copyright Informtion Pttern Seletion Sreens Seleting Emroidery Ptterns/Heirloom Ptterns/Border Ptterns/Cross stith Ptterns/Florl lphet Ptterns Seleting Alphet Chrter Ptterns Seleting Frme Ptterns Seleting Ptterns from Emroidery Crds Aout Emroidery Crds (Sold Seprtely) Seleting Ptterns from USB medi/computer VIEWING THE SEWING SCREEN Key Funtions PREPARING THE FABRIC Atthing Iron-on Stilizers (king) to the Fri Hooping the Fri in the Emroidery Frme Types of Emroidery Frmes Inserting the Fri Using the Emroidery Sheet Emroidering Smll Fris or Fri Edges Emroidering Smll Fris Emroidering Edges or Corners Emroidering Rions or Tpe ATTACHING THE EMBROIDERY FRAME Removing the Emroidery Frme CONFIRMING THE PATTERN POSITION Cheking the Pttern Position Previewing the Completed Pttern SEWING AN EMBROIDERY PATTERN Sewing Attrtive Finishes Emroidery Needle Plte Cover Sewing Emroidery Ptterns When Threding Mnully Sewing Emroidery Ptterns Whih Use Appliqué ADJUSTMENTS DURING THE EMBROIDERY PROCESS MAKING EMBROIDERY ADJUSTMENTS Adjusting Thred Tension Corret Thred Tension Upper Thred is Too Tight Upper Thred is Too Loose Using the Automti Thred Cutting Funtion (END COLOR TRIM) Using the Thred Trimming Funtion (JUMP STITCH TRIM) Seleting the length of JUMP STITCH not to trim Adjusting the Emroidery Speed Chnging the Thred Color Disply Chnging the Emroidery Frme Disply REVISING THE PATTERN Chnging the Pttern Position Aligning the Pttern nd the Needle Chnging the Size Rotting the Pttern Creting Horizontl Mirror Imge Chnging the Density (Alphet Chrter nd Frme Ptterns Only) Chnging the Colors of Alphet Chrter Ptterns USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Emroidery Dt Preutions Types of Emroidery Dt tht n e Used Types of USB Devies/Medi tht n e Used Computers nd Operting Systems with the Following Speifitions n e Used Preutions on Using the Computer to Crete nd Sve Dt Tjim (.dst) Emroidery Dt Trdemrks Sving Emroidery Ptterns in the Mhine s ry If the ry is Full Sving Emroidery Ptterns to USB Medi (Commerilly Aville) Sving Emroidery Ptterns in the Computer Retrieving Ptterns from the Mhine s ry Relling from USB Medi Relling from the Computer EMBROIDERY APPLICATIONS Using Frme Pttern to Mke n Appliqué (1) Using Frme Pttern to Mke n Appliqué (2) If the Boin Runs Out of Thred If the Thred Breks During Sewing Restrting from the Beginning Resuming Emroidery After Turning Off the Power

137 BEFORE EMBROIDERING BEFORE EMBROIDERING Emroidery Step y Step Follow the steps elow to prepre the mhine for emroidery. Step 9 Step 3 Step 6, 8 Step 1, 2 Step 4 Step 7 Step 5 Step # Aim Ation Pge 1 Presser foot tthment Atth emroidery foot W Cheking the needle Use needle 75/11 for emroidery. * 36 3 Emroidery unit tthment Atth the emroidery unit Boin thred setup For the oin thred, wind emroidery oin thred nd set it in ple Fri preprtion Atth stilizer mteril to the fri, nd hoop it in the emroidery frme Pttern seletion Turn the min power to ON, nd selet n emroidery pttern Emroidery frme tthment Atth the emroidery frme to the emroidery unit Cheking the lyout Chek nd djust the size nd position of the emroidery Emroidery thred setup Set up emroidery thred ording to the pttern. 25 * It is reommended tht 90/14 needle should e used when emroidering on hevy weight fris or stilizing produts (for exmple; denim, puffy fom, et.). 126

138 BEFORE EMBROIDERING Atthing Emroidery Foot W d Push the lk utton on the presser foot holder nd remove the presser foot. CAUTION When tthing presser foot, lwys press on the sreen. You my identlly press the Strt/Stop utton nd possily use injury. Be sure to use emroidery foot W when doing emroidery. Using nother presser foot my use the needle to strike the presser foot, using the needle to end or rek nd possily use injury. Press the Needle Position utton to rise the needle. e Blk utton Presser foot holder Remove the presser foot from the presser foot holder. Use the inluded srewdriver to loosen the srew of the presser foot holder, then remove the presser foot holder. Press. The key ppers s. Rise the presser foot lever. Srewdriver Presser foot holder Presser foot holder srew Remove the presser foot holder. 5 Emroidery Lower the presser foot lever. f Position emroidery foot W on the g presser foot r so tht the rm of emroidery foot W is in ontt with the k of the needle holder. 127

139 BEFORE EMBROIDERING h Use the inluded srewdriver to firmly tighten the srew of the presser foot holder. Turn the min power to OFF, nd remove the flt ed tthment. CAUTION Use the inluded srewdriver to firmly tighten the srew of the presser foot holder. If the srew is loose, the needle my strike the presser foot nd possily use injury. Open the over of the onnetion port. i Press uttons. to unlok ll keys nd Atthing the Emroidery Unit Aout the Emroidery Unit CAUTION Do not move the mhine with the emroidery unit tthed. The emroidery unit ould fll off nd use injury. Keep your hnds nd foreign ojets wy from the emroidery rrige nd frme when the mhine is emroidering. Otherwise, injury my result. If the emroidery unit ould not e initilized orretly, uzzer will sound. If this hppens, go through the initiliztion proess gin. This is not mlfuntion. Note You n sew utility stithes even while the emroidery unit is tthed. Be sure to turn off the power efore instlling the emroidery unit. Otherwise, the mhine my e dmged. Do not touh the inner onnetor of the emroidery unit. The pins on the emroidery unit onnetion my e dmged. Do not pply strong fore to the emroidery unit rrige or pik up the unit y the rrige. Otherwise, the emroidery unit my e dmged. Store the emroidery unit in the proper storge se. Be sure to reple the over when the emroidery unit is not instlled. Insert the emroidery unit onnetion into the mhine onnetion port. Push lightly until the unit liks into ple. Emroidery unit onnetion Mhine onnetion port Feed dog position swith Note Be sure there is no gp etween the emroidery unit nd the sewing mhine. If there is gp, the emroidery ptterns will not emroider with the orret registrtion. Do not push on the rrige when instlling the emroidery unit onto the mhine. Moving the rrige my dmge the emroidery unit. Be sure to set the feed dog position swith to right to lower the feed dogs. 128

140 BEFORE EMBROIDERING Turn the min power to ON. d The following messge will pper. e Press. CAUTION Alwys remove the emroidery frme efore pressing. Otherwise, the frme my strike the emroidery foot, nd possily use injury. The emroidery unit will not fit in the storge se if this step is not done. Turn the min power to OFF. The rrige will move to the initiliztion position. Note Be sure to turn the min power to OFF. Otherwise, the mhine my e dmged. Hold down the relese utton, nd pull the emroidery unit wy from the mhine. Note A onfirmtion messge to lower the frmeseuring lever fter the rrige moves to its initil position. 5 Emroidery Relese utton The messge will dispper fter 15 seonds or press to move to the next step. Removing the Emroidery Unit CAUTION Do not rry the emroidery unit y holding the relese utton omprtment. Press either or, then press. The rrige will move to the removl position. 129

141 SELECTING PATTERNS SELECTING PATTERNS Copyright Informtion The ptterns stored in the sewing mhine nd emroidery rds re intended for privte use only. Any puli or ommeril use of opyrighted ptterns is n infringement of opyright lw nd is stritly prohiited. There re mny hrter nd deortive emroidery ptterns stored in the mhine s memory (see the QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE for full summry of ptterns in the mhine s memory). You n lso use ptterns from the emroidery rds (sold seprtely). One the mhine hs finished the initiliztion nd the rrige hs moved to the strt position, the pttern type seletion sreen will disply. If nother sreen is displyed, press to disply the sreen elow. e d g h i j f k Emroidery ptterns Heirloom ptterns Border ptterns d Cross stith ptterns e Florl lphet ptterns f Alphet hrter ptterns g Frme ptterns h Ptterns from n emroidery rd (sold seprtely) i Ptterns sved in the mhine s memory (see pge 170) j Ptterns sved in USB medi (see pge 170) k Ptterns sved on the omputer (see pge 171) 130

142 SELECTING PATTERNS Pttern Seletion Sreens There re 7 tegories of ptterns in this mhine. indites tht there is more thn one pttern seletion sreen for tht tegory. Emroidery ptterns Heirloom ptterns Border ptterns Cross stith ptterns Florl lphet ptterns Alphet hrters 5 Frme ptterns Emroidery 131

143 SELECTING PATTERNS Seleting Emroidery Ptterns/ Heirloom Ptterns/Border Ptterns/Cross stith Ptterns/ Florl lphet Ptterns Press to rete mirror imge of the pttern s needed. * If you mke mistke seleting the pttern, press the key of the pttern you wnt to emroider. Selet the tegory of the pttern you wnt to emroider. Press the key of the pttern you wnt to emroider. * Press to view the next pge. * Press to view the previous pge. d Press. e The sewing sreen is displyed. Proeed to see VIEWING THE SEWING SCREEN on pge 136 to emroider the pttern. * To return to the previous sreen to selet nother pttern, press. The seleted pttern is displyed. 132

144 SELECTING PATTERNS Seleting Alphet Chrter Ptterns Press. Press the key of the font you wnt to emroider. Press to hnge the seletion sreen, nd then enter the hrters tht you wnt to emroider. * If you wnt to hnge the size of hrter, selet the hrter nd then press to hnge the size. The size hnges eh time you press the key, from lrge to medium to smll. * If you mke mistke, press to erse the mistke. * If the pttern is too smll to see lerly, you n use the key to hek it. 5 If you ontinue dding hrters fter hnging the size, the new hrters will e entered in the new size. You nnot hnge the size of the entered hrters fter omining hrter stith ptterns. Emroidery 133

145 SELECTING PATTERNS d Press. Seleting Frme Ptterns Press. Press the key of the frme shpe you wnt to emroider in the top prt of the sreen. e The sewing sreen is displyed. Proeed to see VIEWING THE SEWING SCREEN on pge 136 to emroider the pttern. * To return to the previous sreen to selet nother pttern, press. Frme shpes Frme ptterns Vrious frme ptterns re displyed t the ottom prt of the sreen. Press the key of the frme pttern you wnt to emroider. * If you mke mistke seleting the pttern, press the key of the pttern you wnt to emroider. The seleted pttern is displyed on the sreen. d Press. The sewing sreen is displyed. 134

146 SELECTING PATTERNS e Proeed to see VIEWING THE SEWING SCREEN on pge 136 to emroider the pttern. * To return to the previous sreen to selet nother Insert the rd ompletely into the slot on the right side of the mhine. * Insert the emroidery rd so tht the end with printed rrow is fing the front. pttern, press. Press. Seleting Ptterns from Emroidery Crds Aout Emroidery Crds (Sold Seprtely) Use only emroidery rds mnuftured for this mhine. Using unuthorized rds my use your mhine to operte inorretly. Emroidery rds sold in foreign ountries nnot e used with this mhine. Store emroidery rds in the hrd se. Note Only insert or remove the emroidery rd when is displyed, or when the mhine is turned off. Do not insert the rd in diretion other thn tht shown y the rrow on the rd, nd do not fore the rd into the slot strongly. Do not put ny ojet exept for the emroidery rds into the slot. Otherwise, your mhine my e dmged. The ptterns on the emroidery rd re displyed on the seletion sreen. Follow the steps on pge 132 to selet pttern. Seleting Ptterns from USB medi/computer To rell ptterns from the omputer or USB medi, see pges 170 through Emroidery 135

147 VIEWING THE SEWING SCREEN VIEWING THE SEWING SCREEN f g h i j d e k l Shows the presser foot ode. Atth emroidery foot W for ll emroidery projets. When the foot presser symol is displyed on the sreen, you re le to sew. Shows the oundry for emroidering with the extr lrge frme (30 m 18 m (pprox. 12 inhes 7 inhes)). Shows preview of the seleted pttern. d Shows the size of the seleted pttern. e Shows how fr the sewing position is from the enter (when you move the sewing position). f Shows how mny stithes re in the seleted pttern nd how mny stithes hve een sewn so fr. g Shows the time neessry to sew the pttern, nd the time lredy spent sewing the pttern (not inluding time for hnging nd utomtilly trimming the thred). h Shows the numer of olors in the seleted pttern, nd the numer of the olor urrently eing sewn. i Shows the prt of the emroidery tht will e sewn with the first thred olor. j Shows the order the olors re sewn in. k Shows the emroidery frmes tht n e used for the seleted pttern. Be sure to use the proper frme (see pge 139). l Shows the degree of rottion of the pttern. * There is n explntion of eh key s funtion on the next pge. 136

148 Key Funtions Using these keys, you n hnge the size of the pttern, rotte the pttern, et. m VIEWING THE SEWING SCREEN n t u o p q r s v w x y No. Disply Key Nme Explntion Pge m Imge key Press this key for preview of the sewn imge. 145 n Arrow keys ( Center key) Press n rrow key to move the pttern in the diretion shown y the rrow. (Press the Center key to return the pttern to the enter of the emroidery re.) 159 o Rotte key Press this key to rotte the pttern. You n rotte pttern one degree, 10 degrees or 90 degrees t time. 161 p Size key Press this key to hnge the size of the pttern. 160 q Density key Press this key to hnge the density of lphet hrter or frme ptterns. 162 r Horizontl mirror imge key Press this key to rete horizontl mirror imge of the pttern. 162 s Multi olor key Press this key to hnge the olor of eh letter when sewing lphet hrter ptterns. t ry key Sves pttern in the mhine s memory, USB medi or omputer Emroidery u Return key Press this key to return to the pttern type seletion sreen. v Cut/Tension key Press this key to speify utomti thred utting, thred trimming or the thred tension. For emroidery, these funtions re set utomtilly. w Forwrd/Bk key Press this key to move the needle forwrd or k in the pttern; useful if the thred reks while sewing or if you wnt to strt gin from the eginning. x Strting point key Press this key to move the needle strt position to lign the needle with the pttern position. y Tril key Press this key to hek the position of the pttern.the emroidery frme moves to the desired position so you n hek tht there is enough spe to sew the pttern Note Some opertions or funtions re not ville for ertin ptterns. If the key disply is light gry, you nnot use tht funtion or opertion with the seleted pttern. 137

149 PREPARING THE FABRIC PREPARING THE FABRIC CAUTION Use fris with thikness of less thn 3 mm (pprox. 1/8 inh). Using fris thiker thn 3 mm (pprox. 1/8 inh) my use the needle to rek. When using lyers with thiker tting et., you n sew more ttrtive emroidery y djusting the emroidery presser foot height in the emroidery settings sreen (see elow). In the se of thik terry loth towels we reommend tht you ple piee of wter solule stilizer on the top surfe of the towel. This will help to redue the np of the toweling nd result in more ttrtive emroidery. Note Press, nd use nd in the EMBROIDERY FOOT HEIGHT disply in the emroidery settings sreen to djust the presser foot height. Atthing Iron-on Stilizers (king) to the Fri For est results in your emroidery projets, lwys use stilizer mteril for emroidery. Follow the pkge instrutions for the stilizer eing used. When using fris tht nnot e ironed (suh s towel or fris tht hve loops whih expnd when ironed) or in ples where ironing is diffiult, position the stilizer mteril under the fri without fusing it, then position the fri nd stilizer in the emroidery frme, or hek with your uthorized deler for the orret stilizer to use. Use piee of stilizer whih is lrger thn the emroidery frme eing used. Size of the emroidery frme Iron-on stilizer (king) Iron the iron-on stilizer mteril to the wrong side of the fri. CAUTION Alwys use stilizer mteril for emroidery when sewing streth fris, lightweight fris, fris with orse weve, or fris whih use pttern shrinkge. Otherwise, the needle my rek nd use injury. Not using stilizer mteril my result in poor finish to your projet. Fusile side of stilizer Fri (wrong side) When emroidering on thin fris suh s orgndy or lwn, or on npped fris suh s towel or orduroy, use wter solule stilizer (sold seprtely) for est results. The wter solule stilizer mteril will dissolve ompletely in wter, giving the projet more ttrtive finish. 138

150 PREPARING THE FABRIC Hooping the Fri in the Emroidery Frme Types of Emroidery Frmes Extr Lrge Lrge Medium Smll Cn emroider n re 30 m 18 m (pprox. 12 inhes 7 inhes) Use when emroidering onneted or omined hrters or ptterns, or when emroidering lrge ptterns. Cn emroider n re 18 m 13 m (pprox. 7 inhes 5 inhes) Use when emroidering ptterns etween 10 m 10 m (pprox. 4 inhes 4 inhes) nd 18 m 13 m (pprox. 7 inhes 5 inhes). Cn emroider n re 10 m 10 m (pprox. 4 inhes 4 inhes) Use when emroidering ptterns under 10 m x 10 m (pprox. 4 inhes 4 inhes). Cn emroider n re 2 m 6 m (pprox. 1 inh 2-1/2 inhes) Use for emroidering nmes or very smll ptterns. Emroidery Frme 26 m 16 m (pprox. 10-1/4 inhes 6-1/4 inhes) n e used. Selet frme tht mthes the pttern size. Frme options re displyed on the LCD. 5 Emroidery Cn e used Cnnot e used CAUTION If you use frme tht is too smll, the presser foot my strike the frme during sewing nd use injury. 139

151 PREPARING THE FABRIC Inserting the Fri Note If the fri is pled loose in the emroidery frme, the emroidery design will sew out poorly. Insert the fri on level surfe, nd gently streth the fri tut in the frme. Follow the steps elow to insert the fri orretly. Slightly tighten the frme djustment srew, nd then remove the slk in the fri y pulling on the edges nd orners. Do not loosen the srew. Lift-up nd loosen the frme djustment srew nd remove the inner frme. When using the extr lrge frme, tighten the djustment srews t the top nd ottom of the frme, so tht the spes t the top nd ottom of the frme re equl. Frme djustment srew Inner frme Ly the fri right side up on top of the outer frme. Re-insert the inner frme mking sure to lign the inner frme s with the outer frme s. d Gently streth the fri tut, nd tighten the frme djustment srew to keep the fri from loosening fter strething. * After strething the fri, mke sure the fri is tut. Inner frme Outer frme Frme djustment srew * Mke sure the inside nd outside frmes re even efore you strt emroidering. Outer frme Inner frme Fri Streth the fri from ll four orners nd ll four edges. While strething the fri, tighten the frme djustment srew. 140

152 PREPARING THE FABRIC e Return the frme djustment srew to its initil position. d Remove the emroidery sheet. Using the Emroidery Sheet When you wnt to emroider the pttern in prtiulr ple, use the emroidery sheet with the frme. With hlk pen, mrk the re of the fri you wnt to emroider. Emroidery pttern Mrk Ple the emroidery sheet on the inner frme. Align the guide lines on the emroidery sheet with the mrk you mde on the fri. Inner frme Guide line Emroidering Smll Fris or Fri Edges Use n emroidery stilizer to provide extr support. After emroidering, remove the stilizer refully. Atth the stilizer s shown in the exmples elow. We reommend using stilizer for emroidery. Emroidering Smll Fris Use temporry spry dhesive to dhere the smll piee of fri to the lrger piee in the frme. If you do not wish to use temporry spry dhesive, tth the stilizer with sting stith. Fri Stilizer Emroidering Edges or Corners Use temporry spry dhesive to dhere the smll piee of fri to the lrger piee in the frme. If you do not wish to use temporry spry dhesive, tth the stilizer with sting stith. 5 Emroidery Gently streth the fri so there re no folds or wrinkles, nd press the inner frme into the outer frme. Fri Stilizer Inner frme Outer frme 141

153 PREPARING THE FABRIC Emroidering Rions or Tpe Seure with doule-sided tpe or temporry spry dhesive. Rion Stilizer 142

154 ATTACHING THE EMBROIDERY FRAME ATTACHING THE EMBROIDERY FRAME Note Wind nd insert the oin efore tthing the emroidery frme. Press the Presser Foot Lifter utton to rise the presser foot. d Lower the frme-seuring lever to e level with the frme to seure the emroidery frme in the emroidery frme holder. Align the emroidery frme guide with the right edge of the emroidery frme holder. Frme-seuring lever Emroidery frme holder Emroidery frme guide Removing the Emroidery Frme CAUTION If the frme-seuring lever is not lowered, the emroidery pttern my not sew out orretly or the presser foot my strike the emroidery frme nd use injury. Rise the frme-seuring lever. 5 Emroidery Slide the emroidery frme into the holder, mking sure to lign the emroidery frme s with the holder s. Pull the emroidery frme towrd you. Arrow mrk 143

155 CONFIRMING THE PATTERN POSITION CONFIRMING THE PATTERN POSITION The pttern is normlly positioned in the enter of the emroidery frme. You n hek the lyout efore strting emroidery nd hnge the position. Cheking the Pttern Position The emroidery frme moves nd shows the pttern position. Wth the frme losely to mke sure the pttern will e sewn in the right ple. From tht you wnt to hek., press the key for the position Press. Seleted position The needle will move to the seleted position on the pttern. The following sreen is displyed. To see the entire emroidering re, press. The emroidery frme moves nd shows the emroidery re. CAUTION Mke sure the needle is up when the emroidery frme is moving. If the needle is down, it ould rek nd result in injury. 144

156 CONFIRMING THE PATTERN POSITION Previewing the Completed Pttern Press sreen. to return to the originl Press. An imge of the pttern s it will e emroidered ppers. Press to selet the frme used in the preview. * Frmes displyed in light gry nnot e seleted. * Press to see full sreen preview. * The pttern n e sewn s it ppers in the following disply. 5 Emroidery You n egin sewing from this sreen y pressing the Strt/Stop utton. 145

157 SEWING AN EMBROIDERY PATTERN SEWING AN EMBROIDERY PATTERN Sewing Attrtive Finishes There re mny ftors tht go into sewing eutiful emroidery. Using the pproprite stilizer (see pge 138) nd hooping the fri in the frme (see pge 139) re two importnt ftors mentioned erlier. Another importnt point is the ppropriteness of the needle nd thred eing used. See the explntion of threds elow. Thred Upper thred Use emroidery thred, or ountry emroidery thred intended for use with this mhine. Other emroidery threds my not yield optimum results. Boin thred Use emroidery oin thred intended for use with this mhine. When using other kinds of emroidery oin thred, use the oin se (pink srew) inluded with this mhine (The oin se originlly instlled in the mhine hs green srew). (See pge 210 for how to remove the oin se.) If you use threds other thn those listed ove, the emroidery my not sew out orretly. Note Before emroidering, hek tht there is enough thred in the oin. If you ontinue sewing without enough thred in the oin, the thred my tngle. Do not leve ojets in the rnge of motion of the emroidery frme. The frme my strike the ojet nd use poor finish to the emroidery pttern. When emroidering on lrge grments (espeilly jkets or other hevy fris), do not let the fri hng over the tle. Otherwise, the emroidery unit nnot move freely, nd the pttern my not turn out s plnned. Emroidery Needle Plte Cover Under some onditions, sed on the type of fri, stilizer, or thred eing used, there my e some looping in the upper thred. In this se, tth the inluded emroidery needle plte over to the needle plte. Atth the over y inserting the two projetions on the underside of the over into the nothes on the needle plte s shown elow. CAUTION Push the emroidery needle plte over s fr s possile to tth it. If the emroidery needle plte over is not seurely tthed, it my use the needle to rek. Note Do not use the emroidery needle plte over for ny pplitions other thn emroidery. Groove Projetion Noth To remove the emroidery needle plte over, ple your fingernil in the groove nd lift the plte out. 146

158 SEWING AN EMBROIDERY PATTERN Sewing Emroidery Ptterns Exmple: d Remove the thred for the first olor from the mhine. Thred the mhine with the next olor. Repet the sme steps for emroidering the remining olors. Emroidery olor order Cursor The [+] ursor moves over the pttern, showing whih prt of the pttern is eing sewn. Thred the mhine with the first olor (see Threding Using the Automti Threding Button on pge 25). When the lst olor is sewn, Finish sewing will pper on the disply. Press (CLOSE), nd the disply will return to the originl sreen. The Thred Trimming Funtion is originlly set to trim exess thred jumps (threds linking prts of the pttern, et.). When n end of upper thred my remin on the surfe of the fri t the eginning of the stithing, depending on the type of thred nd fri tht re used. After emroidering is finished, ut off this exess thred. *If the setting hs een turned off, trim the exess thred jumps using sissors fter the pttern is finished. See pge 155 for informtion on the thred trimming funtion. 5 Emroidery Press the Presser Foot Lifter utton to lower the presser foot, nd press the Strt/ Stop utton to strt emroidering. When the first olor is ompletely sewn, the mhine will utomtilly trim the threds nd stop. The presser foot will then utomtilly e rised. On the emroidery olor order disply, the next olor will move to the top. If there is thred left over from the eginning of sewing, it my e sewn over s you ontinue emroidering the pttern, mking it very diffiult to del with the thred fter the pttern is finished. Trim the threds t the eginning. 147

159 SEWING AN EMBROIDERY PATTERN When Threding Mnully Thred the mhine mnully with the first olor (see Threding Mnully on pge 27). Sewing Emroidery Ptterns Whih Use Appliqué There re some ptterns whih ll for n ppliqué inside the pttern. When sewing n emroidery pttern with n ppliqué, the olor sewing order disply shows Appliqué Mteril, Appliqué Position, Appliqué, nd then the sewing order of the olors round the ppliqué. Depending on the thred olor disply setting, Lower the presser foot, then press the Strt/Stop utton to strt emroidering. After 5-6 stithes, press the Strt/Stop utton gin to stop the mhine. Trim the exess thred t the end of the sem. If the end of the sem is under the presser foot, rise the presser foot, then trim the exess thred. the disply my show,, or. Atth n iron-on stilizer to the wrong side of the ppliqué mteril. Appliqué mteril (otton, felt, et.) Iron-on stilizer d e If there is thred left over from the eginning of sewing, it my e sewn over s you ontinue emroidering the pttern, mking it very diffiult to del with the thred fter the pttern is finished. Trim the threds t the eginning. Press the Strt/Stop utton gin to restrt the mhine. Repet steps nd d from the previous setion. Ple the ppliqué mteril into the emroidery frme, nd then press the Strt/Stop utton to sew the outline of the ppliqué. Outline of ppliqué Appliqué mteril The emroidery proedure is the sme s the si proedure explined on pges 147 through 148. The mhine will sew round the outline of the ppliqué piees nd will then stop. 148

160 SEWING AN EMBROIDERY PATTERN Remove the ppliqué mteril from the emroidery frme, nd then ut refully long the stithing. After utting, remove ll of the stithing thred refully. * Crefully ut out the pttern on the outline you just sewed. Do not ut inside the stithing line, s the ppliqué fri will not e ught y the ppliqué stith. f Apply thin lyer of dhesive or spry dhesive to the k of the ppliqué piee nd tth it to the ppliqué position so tht it follows the sem of the outline. d Ple the se mteril into the emroidery frme. If the ppliqué mteril is lightweight fri, you my wnt to use fusile we on the k to stilize the fri nd for ppliqué plement. Fuse ppliqué in ple with n iron. Do not remove fri from the frme to iron the ppliqué mteril. Press the Strt/Stop utton. g 5 e Bse mteril Press the Strt/Stop utton to sew the position of the ppliqué. * Use the sme thred olor you pln to use when tthing the ppliqué in step g. h Some ptterns my not show ll three ppliqué steps. Sometimes the Appliqué step will e shown s olor. The ppliqué will then e ompleted. Chnge the upper thred nd then rry out the rest of the emroidering. Emroidery Position of ppliqué Bse mteril The mhine will sew round the position of the ppliqué nd will then stop. Some glue my get onto the presser foot, needle, nd needle plte t this time. Finish emroidering the ppliqué pttern nd then len wy the glue. For est sewing results lip ll threds etween olor steps. 149

161 ADJUSTMENTS DURING THE EMBROIDERY PROCESS ADJUSTMENTS DURING THE EMBROIDERY PROCESS Note Be reful not to ump the emroidery unit rrige or the presser foot when removing or tthing the emroidery frme. Otherwise, the pttern will not emroider orretly. If the Boin Runs Out of Thred When the oin egins to run out of thred during emroidering, the mhine will stop nd the messge elow will pper. Press nd follow the diretions elow to rethred the lower threding. If very little sewing remins, you n thred 10 finl stithes without rethreding the mhine y pressing. The mhine will stop fter sewing the 10 stithes. Unlok the frme-seuring lever nd remove the emroidery frme. * Be reful not to pply strong fore to the fri t this time. Otherwise, the fri my loosen in the frme. Insert wound oin into the mhine, then retth the emroidery frme. Press. d Press. The rrige will move nd the thred will e utomtilly ut. e The rrige will return to its originl position. To return to the spot in the pttern where you stopped sewing, follow steps through f in the next setion. 150

162 ADJUSTMENTS DURING THE EMBROIDERY PROCESS If the Thred Breks During Sewing Press the Strt/Stop utton to stop the mhine. If the upper thred is roken, redo the upper threding. If the oin thred is roken, press nd follow the diretions in steps through d from the previous setion to reset the oin. Press,, or to move the d needle k the orret numer of stithes efore the spot where the thred roke. * If you nnot move k to the spot where the thred roke, press to selet the olor nd move to the eginning position of tht olor, then use,, or to move hed to slightly efore where the thred roke. Press. 5 e Press sreen. f to return to the originl Press the Presser Foot Lifter utton to lower the presser foot, nd press the Strt/ Stop utton to ontinue sewing. Emroidery 151

163 ADJUSTMENTS DURING THE EMBROIDERY PROCESS Restrting from the Beginning Press. Resuming Emroidery After Turning Off the Power The urrent olor nd stith numer re sved when emroidery is stopped. The next time tht the mhine is turned on, you n hoose whether or not to ontinue the stopped sewing opertion. Even if the power goes out in the middle of emroidery, the mhine returns to the point where emroidery ws stopped when the mhine is turned on gin. Press. Current stith numer when emroidery ws stopped Note Do not remove the emroidery unit or the memory will no longer rememer your design. The emroidery frme moves, returning the needle to the pttern s eginning position. Turn the min power to ON. Follow the instrutions shown on the sreen nd remove the emroidery frme. The following messge will pper. Press the Presser Foot Lifter utton to lower the presser foot nd strt sewing. 152

164 ADJUSTMENTS DURING THE EMBROIDERY PROCESS Press. The previous sewing sreen displyed efore the mhine ws turned off ppers. d If you wnt to strt new opertion, press so the pttern seletion sreen ppers. Continue emroidering. 5 Emroidery Stith numer when emroidery is resumed 153

165 MAKING EMBROIDERY ADJUSTMENTS MAKING EMBROIDERY ADJUSTMENTS Adjusting Thred Tension Press. When emroidering, the thred tension should e set so tht the upper thred n slightly e seen on the wrong side of the fri. Corret Thred Tension The pttern n e seen from the wrong side of the fri. If the thred tension is not set orretly, the pttern will not finish well. The fri my puker or the thred my rek. (Right side) (Wrong side) Follow the opertions desried elow to djust thred tension ording to the sitution. Note If the thred tension setting is mde extremely wek, the mhine my stop during sewing. This is not the sign of mlfuntion. Inrese the thred tension slightly, nd egin sewing gin. Press to weken the upper thred tension. (The tension numer will derese.) If you turn the min power to OFF or selet different pttern, the thred tension will reset to the utomti setting. When you retrieve sved pttern, the thred tension setting will e the sme s when the pttern ws sved. Upper Thred is Too Tight The tension of the upper thred is too tight, resulting in the oin thred eing visile from the right side of the fri. Press. Upper Thred is Too Loose The tension of the upper thred is too loose, resulting in loose upper thred, loose thred loks, or loops ppering on the right side of the fri. (Right side) (Wrong side) (Right side) (Wrong side) Press. Press to tighten the upper thred tension. (The tension numer will inrese.) Press. 154

166 MAKING EMBROIDERY ADJUSTMENTS Using the Automti Thred Cutting Funtion (END COLOR TRIM) The utomti thred utting funtion will ut the thred t the end of sewing eh olor. This funtion is initilly turned on. To turn this funtion off, press key nd then. This funtion n e turned on or off during emroidering. * This setting returns to its defult when the mhine is turned off. Using the Thred Trimming Funtion (JUMP STITCH TRIM) The thred trimming funtion will utomtilly trim ny exess thred jumps within the olor. This funtion is initilly turned on. To turn this funtion off, press key nd then. This funtion n e turned on or off during emroidering. * Your ustomized setting remins fter turning off nd on the mhine. Press. The utomti thred utting funtion (END COLOR TRIM) will ut the thred t the end of one olor sewing. This funtion is initilly turned on. To turn this funtion off, press (TENSION/CUT) key nd then (END COLOR TRIM). Jump stith Note When this funtion is turned on, use the enlosed ll point needle 75/107 for emroidering ptterns with short jump stithes suh s lphet hrters. Using other needled my use thred reking. 5 Emroidery Press. Press to turn off END COLOR TRIM. The key will disply s * When one olor thred is sewn, the mhine will stop without utting the thred. 155

167 MAKING EMBROIDERY ADJUSTMENTS Press TRIM. to turn off JUMP STITCH Adjusting the Emroidery Speed Press nd Emroidery. The key will disply s * The mhine will not trim the thred efore moving to the next stithing. Seleting the length of JUMP STITCH not to trim When the thred trimming funtion is turned on, you n selet the length of the jump stith not to trim the thred. This funtion n e turned on or off during emroidering. Selet setting from 5 mm to 50 mm in 5 mm inrements. * Your ustomized setting remins fter turning off nd on the mhine. Press or to selet the length of JUMP STITCH. For exmple: Press to selet 25mm (1 inh) nd the mhine will not trim 25mm or less length of jump stith efore moving to the next stithing. Note If design hs mny trims it is reommended to selet higher jump stith trim setting in order to redue the mount of exess tils on kside of fri. The higher numer of the jump stith length seleted, the fewer numer of times the mhine will trim. In this se, more jump stithes remin on the surfe of the fri. In the MAX EMBROIDERY SPEED disply, use to hnge the mximum emroidery speed. * You n hoose from 3 different speed levels. SPM is the numer of stithes sewn in one minute. Derese the sewing speed when emroidering on thin, thik, or hevy fris. The sewing speed n e hnged while emroidery is eing sewn. The mximum sewing speed setting does not hnge until new setting is seleted. The setting speified efore the min power is set to OFF remins seleted the next time tht the mhine is turned on. Derese the sewing speed to 600 spm when using speility thred like metlli thred. Press. 156

168 MAKING EMBROIDERY ADJUSTMENTS Chnging the Thred Color Disply You n disply the nme of the thred olors, the time or emroidery thred numer. Colors on the sreen my vry slightly from tul spool olors. d When the thred numer #123 is displyed, use to selet from six emroidery thred rnds pitured elow. Press. Press. In the THREAD COLOR DISPLAY, use to disply the nme of the thred olors, the time or the emroidery thred numer. EMBROIDERY/POLYESTER THREAD# COUNTRY/COTTON THREAD# 5 MADEIRA POLY THREAD# Emroidery MADEIRA RAYON THREAD# SULKY POLY THREAD# ROBISON-ANTON POLY THREAD# e Press. 157

169 MAKING EMBROIDERY ADJUSTMENTS Chnging the Emroidery Frme Disply Press. Press. In the FRAME DISPLAY, use to hnge the emroidery frme disply mode. * There re 10 hoies. d e f Extr lrge frme emroidering re Center line Lrge frme emroidering re d Medium frme emroidering re e Smll frme emroidering re f Grid lines d Press. 158

170 REVISING THE PATTERN REVISING THE PATTERN CAUTION When you hve revised the pttern, hek the disply of ville emroidery frmes nd use n pproprite frme. If you use n emroidery frme not displyed s ville for use, the presser foot my strike the frme nd possily use injury. Chnging the Pttern Position Mrk the emroidery strt position on the fri, s shown. Use shown y the rrow. to move the pttern in the diretion Press to enter the pttern. Press. 5 Emroidery Distne from the enter Aligning the Pttern nd the Needle Exmple: Aligning the lower left side of pttern nd the needle ABC 159

171 REVISING THE PATTERN Press. Selet the diretion in whih to hnge the size. * Press to enlrge the pttern. * Press to shrink the pttern. * Press to streth the pttern horizontlly. * Press to ompt the pttern horizontlly. * Press to streth the pttern vertilly. * Press to ompt the pttern vertilly. Strt position The needle position moves to the ottom left orner of the pttern (the emroidery frme moves so tht the needle is positioned orretly). * Press to return the pttern to its originl pperne. d Press. e Use to lign the needle nd the mrk on the fri, nd egin emroidering the pttern. Size of the pttern Chnging the Size Press. Some ptterns or hrters n e enlrged more thn others. Some ptterns or hrters n e enlrged to greter degree if they re rotted 90 degrees. Press sreen. to return to the originl 160

172 REVISING THE PATTERN Rotting the Pttern Press. Selet the ngle of rottion for the pttern. * Press to rotte the pttern 90 degrees to the left. * Press to rotte the pttern 90 degrees to the right. * Press to rotte the pttern 10 degrees to the left. * Press to rotte the pttern 10 degrees to the right. * Press to rotte the pttern 1 degree to the left. * Press to rotte the pttern 1 degree to the right. * Press to return the pttern to its originl position. 5 Emroidery Degree of rottion 0 Press sreen. to return to the originl 161

173 REVISING THE PATTERN Creting Horizontl Mirror Imge Press so it ppers s to rete horizontl mirror imge of the seleted pttern. Press gin to return the pttern to norml. Chnging the Density (Alphet Chrter nd Frme Ptterns Only) The thred density for some lphet hrter nd frme ptterns n e hnged. A setting etween 80% nd 120% in 5% inrements n e speified. Press. 162

174 REVISING THE PATTERN Chnge the density. * Press to mke the pttern less dense. * Press to mke the pttern more dense. Chnging the Colors of Alphet Chrter Ptterns Comined lphet hrter ptterns n e sewn with eh letter in different olor. If MULTI COLOR is set, the mhine stops fter eh hrter is sewn so tht the thred n e hnged to different olor. Press so tht it ppers s. * Press the key gin to return to the originl setting. 5 Norml Fine (stithes loser together) Corse (stithes frther prt) The pttern density hnges eh time you press utton. After hrter is sewn, hnge the thred olor, nd then sew the next hrter. Emroidery Press to return to the pttern seletion sreen. 163

175 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Emroidery Dt Preutions Oserve the following preutions when using emroidery dt other thn tht reted nd sved in this mhine. Types of Emroidery Dt tht n e Used Only.pes,.ph,.ph,.ph, nd.dst emroidery dt files n e used with this mhine. Using dt other thn tht sved using our dt design systems or sewing mhines my use the emroidery mhine to mlfuntion. Types of USB Devies/Medi tht n e Used Stith dt n e sved to or relled from USB medi. Use medi tht meets the following speifitions. USB Floppy disk drive USB Flsh drive (USB Flsh memory). Stith dt n e relled only. USB CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW drives You n lso use the following types of USB medi with the USB ry Crd Reder/Writer. Seure Digitl (SD) Crd ComptFlsh ry Stik Smrt Medi Multi Medi Crd (MMC) XD-Piture Crd When file folder is neessry to rete, use omputer. CAUTION When using emroidery dt other thn our originl ptterns, the thred or needle my rek when sewing with stith density tht is too fine or when sewing three or more overlpping stithes. In tht se, use one of our originl dt design systems to edit the emroidery dt. Note Some USB medi my not e usle with this mhine. Plese visit our wesite for more detils. USB hus nnot e used with this mhine. The mhine will not reognize the ove USB devies or USB memory rds through USB hu. The ess lmp will egin linking fter inserting USB Devies/Medi, nd it will tke out 5 to 6 seonds to reognize the Devies/Medi. (Time will differ depending on the USB Devie/Medi). Computers nd Operting Systems with the Following Speifitions n e Used Comptile models: IBM PC with USB port s stndrd equipment IBM PC-omptile omputer equipped with USB port s stndrd equipment Comptile operting systems: Mirosoft Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP (Windows 98SE requires driver. Downlod the driver from our We site ( In ddition, only Windows 98 Seond Edition n use the driver.). 164

176 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Preutions on Using the Computer to Crete nd Sve Dt If the file nme of emroidery dt nnot e identified, for exmple, euse the nme ontins speil hrters, the file is not displyed. If this ours, hnge the nme of the file. If emroidery dte lrger thn 300 mm (H) 180 mm (W) (pprox.12 inhes (H) 7 inhes (W)) is seleted, messge is shown sking if you wish to rotte the pttern 90 degrees. Even fter eing rotted 90 degrees, emroidery dt lrger thn 300 mm (H) 180 mm (W) (pprox. 12 inhes (H) 7 inhes (W)) nnot e used. (All designs must e within the 300 mm (H) 180 mm (W) (pprox. 12 inhes (H) 7 inhes (W)) design field size.).pes files sved with the numer of stithes or the numer of olors exeeding the speified limits nnot e displyed. Use one of our originl dt design systems to edit the emroidery pttern so tht it meets the speifitions. Even if the emroidery unit is not tthed, the mhine will mnge emroidery dt. Tjim (.dst) Emroidery Dt.dst dt is displyed in the pttern list sreen y file nme (the tul imge nnot e displyed). Only the first eight hrters of the file nme n e displyed. Sine Tjim (.dst) dt does not ontin speifi thred olor informtion, it is displyed with our defult thred olor sequene. Chek the preview nd hnge the thred olors s desired. Trdemrks Seure Digitl (SD) Crd is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of SD Crd Assoition. ComptFlsh is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Sndisk Corportion. ry Stik is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Sony Corportion. Smrt Medi is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Toshi Corportion. Multi Medi Crd (MMC) is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Infineon Tehnologies AG. xd-piture Crd is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. IBM is registered trdemrk or trdemrk of Interntionl Business Mhines Corportion. Mirosoft nd Windows re registered trdemrks or trdemrks of Mirosoft Corportion. Eh ompny whose softwre title is mentioned in this mnul hs Softwre Liense Agreement speifi to its proprietry progrms. All other rnds nd produt nmes mentioned in this mnul re registered trdemrks of their respetive ompnies. However, the explntions for mrkings suh s nd re not lerly desried within the text. CAUTION When disonneting the USB le: Before disonneting the USB le, lik the Unplug or Ejet Hrdwre ion in the tskr of Windows(r) Me/2000 or the Sfely Remove Hrdwre ion in the tskr of Windows(r) XP. Then, when the removle disk n sfely e removed, disonnet the USB le from the omputer nd the mhine. 5 Emroidery With Windows 98 SE, hek tht the Aess lmp is not flshing efore disonneting the USB le from the omputer nd the mhine. 165

177 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Sving Emroidery Ptterns in the Mhine s ry You n sve emroidery ptterns tht you hve ustomized nd will use often; for exmple, your nme or other omined ptterns, ptterns tht hve een rotted or hd the size hnged, ptterns tht hve hd the sewing position hnged, et. Press. * Press to return to the originl sreen without sving. Note Do not turn the min power to OFF while the Sving sreen is displyed. You will lose the pttern you re sving. It tkes few seonds to sve pttern to the mhine s memory. See pge 170 for informtion on retrieving sved pttern. Press when the pttern you wnt to sve is in the sewing sreen. The Sving sreen is displyed. When the pttern is sved, the disply returns to the originl sreen utomtilly. If the ry is Full If the sreen elow displys, either the mximum numer of ptterns hve een sved or the pttern you wnt to sve tkes lot of memory, nd the mhine nnot sve it. If you delete previously sved pttern, you n sve the urrent pttern. Press. * Press to return to the originl sreen without sving. The mhine displys the ptterns urrently sved. 166

178 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Selet the pttern you wnt to delete. d Press. * If you deide not to delete the pttern, press. Press. Amount of memory used y the pttern to e deleted Amount of memory needed to sve the urrent pttern The Sving sreen displys. When the pttern is sved, the disply returns to the originl sreen utomtilly. Note Do not turn the min power to OFF while the Sving sreen is displyed. You will lose the pttern you re sving. If there is enough memory ville fter deleting the pttern, the pttern you wnt to sve will e sved utomtilly. If there is not enough memory ville fter deleting the pttern, repet the steps ove to delete nother pttern from the mhine s memory. It tkes few seonds to sve pttern. See pge 170 for more informtion out retrieving sved ptterns. 5 Emroidery 167

179 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Sving Emroidery Ptterns to USB Medi (Commerilly Aville) When sending emroidery ptterns from the mhine to USB medi, plug the USB medi into the mhine s USB port. Depending on the type of USB medi eing used, either diretly plug the USB devie into the mhine s USB port or plug the USB Crd Writer/Reder into the mhine s USB port. Some USB medi my not e usle with this mhine. Plese visit our we site for more detils. Press when the pttern you wnt to sve is in the sewing sreen. Insert the USB medi into the USB port onnetor on the mhine. USB port onnetor for medi USB medi The USB medi n e inserted or removed t ny time. Do not insert nything other thn USB medi into the USB medi port onnetor. Otherwise, the USB medi drive my e dmged. Press. * Press to return to the originl sreen without sving. The Sving sreen is displyed. When the pttern is sved, the disply returns to the originl sreen utomtilly. 168

180 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Sving Emroidery Ptterns in the Computer Press when the pttern you wnt to sve is in the sewing sreen. Using the inluded USB le, the mhine n e onneted to your omputer, nd the emroidery ptterns n e temporrily retrieved from nd sved in your omputer. Note Do not turn the min power to OFF while the Sving sreen is displyed. You will lose the pttern you re sving. Plug the USB le onnetor into the orresponding USB port onnetors for the omputer nd for the mhine. * The USB le n e plugged into the USB port onnetors on the omputer nd emroidery mhine whether or not they re turned on. Press. * Press to return to the originl sreen without sving. 5 Emroidery USB port onnetor for omputer USB le onnetor The Removle Disk ion will pper in My Computer on the omputer. Note The onnetors on the USB le n only e inserted into onnetor in one diretion. If it is diffiult to insert the onnetor, do not insert it with fore. Chek the orienttion of the onnetor. For detils on the position of the USB port on the omputer (or USB hu), refer to the instrution mnul for the orresponding equipment. d The pttern will e temporrily sved to Removle Disk under My Computer. Selet the pttern s.ph file in Removle Disk nd opy the file to the omputer. 169

181 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Retrieving Ptterns from the Mhine s ry Press. Press. The sewing sreen is displyed. Relling from USB Medi The mhine displys the ptterns urrently in the memory. Press the key of the pttern you wnt to retrieve. * Press to return to the originl sreen. You n rell speifi emroider pttern from either diretly USB medi or folder in the USB medi. If the pttern is under the folder, move down lyers of folders following pth to it. Insert the USB medi into the USB port onnetor on the mhine (see pge 168). Press. Emroidery ptterns nd folder in top folder re displyed. 170

182 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Press when there is sufolder to sort two or more stith ptterns to USB medi, the emroidery pttern in the sufolder is displyed. e Press. * Press to return to the originl sreen without relling. The sewing sreen is displyed. Relling from the Computer Folder nme Emroidery ptterns in top folder Pth The pth to shows the urrent folder t the top of the list. Emroidery ptterns nd folders in sufolder re displyed. Plug the USB le onnetor into the orresponding USB port onnetors for the omputer nd for the mhine (see pge 169). On the omputer, open My Computer then go to Removle Disk. 5 Emroidery * Press to return to the previous folder. d Press the key of the pttern you wnt to retrieve. * Press to return to the originl sreen. 171

183 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION Move/opy the pttern dt to Removle Disk. e Press the key of the pttern you wnt to rell. * Press to return to the originl sreen. Pttern dt in Removle Disk is written to the mhine. Note While dt is eing written, do not disonnet the USB le. Do not rete folders within Removle Disk. Sine folders re not displyed, stith pttern dt within folders nnot e relled. d Press. f Press. The sewing sreen is displyed. The ptterns in the omputer re displyed on the seletion sreen. 172

184 EMBROIDERY APPLICATIONS EMBROIDERY APPLICATIONS Using Frme Pttern to Mke n Appliqué (1) You n use frmed ptterns of the sme size nd shpe to rete n ppliqué. Emroider one pttern with stright stith nd one pttern with stin stith. Apply thin lyer of fri glue or temporry spry dhesive to the rer of the ppliqué reted in step. Atth the ppliqué to the se fri mthing the shpes. Selet stright stith frme pttern. Emroider the pttern onto the ppliqué mteril, then ut netly round the outside of the shpe. d Selet the stin stith frme pttern of the sme shpe s the ppliqué. Emroider over the ppliqué nd se fri from step to rete the ppliqué. 5 Emroidery Emroider the sme pttern from step onto the se fri. Note If you hnge the size or position of the ptterns when seleting them, mke note of the size nd lotion. Appliqué mteril 173

185 EMBROIDERY APPLICATIONS Using Frme Pttern to Mke n Appliqué (2) d Remove the emroidery frme from the emroidery unit, nd ut round the outside of the stithes. This is seond method to mke ppliqué using emroidery ptterns. You do not hve to hnge the fri in the emroidery frme using this method. Emroider one pttern with stright stith nd one pttern with stin stith. Selet stright stith frme pttern, nd emroider the pttern onto the se fri. e Note Do not remove the fri from the emroidery frme to ut it. Also, do not pull strongly on the fri. Otherwise, the fri my loosen in the frme. Selet the stin stith frme pttern of the sme shpe s the ppliqué. Ple the ppliqué fri over the pttern emroidered in step. * Be sure tht the ppliqué fri ompletely overs the sem. Note Do not hnge the size or position of the pttern. Emroider the sme pttern on the ppliqué fri. f Retth the emroidery frme to the emroidery unit, nd emroider the stin stith pttern to rete n ppliqué. 174

186 Chpter 6 Emroidery Edit EXPLANATION OF FUNCTIONS SELECTING PATTERNS TO EDIT Seleting Emroidery Ptterns/Heirloom Ptterns/Border Ptterns/ Cross stith Ptterns/Florl Alphet Ptterns/Frme Ptterns Seleting Alphet Chrter Ptterns EDITING PATTERNS Key Funtions Moving the Pttern Rotting the Pttern Chnging the Size of the Pttern Deleting the Pttern Chnging the Configurtion of Alphet Chrter Ptterns Chnging Alphet Chrter Sping Chnging the Color of Eh Alphet Chrter in Pttern Chnging the Thred Color Creting Custom Thred Tle Adding Color to the Custom Thred Tle from the List Choosing Color from the Custom Thred Tle Designing Repeted Ptterns Sewing Repeted Ptterns Repeting One Element of Repeted Pttern Assigning Thred Mrks After Editing COMBINING PATTERNS Editing Comined Ptterns Sewing Comined Ptterns USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION...198

187 EXPLANATION OF FUNCTIONS EXPLANATION OF FUNCTIONS With the Emroidery Edit funtions, you n omine emroidery ptterns nd hrter ptterns, hnge the size of ptterns, rotte ptterns, nd perform mny other editing funtions. This mhine n perform the 9 funtions listed elow. Comine Ptterns You n esily rete omintions of emroidery ptterns, frme ptterns, hrter ptterns, ptterns from the mhine s memory, ptterns from seprtely sold emroidery rds, nd mny other ptterns. Move Ptterns Within the 30 m 18 m (pprox. 12 inhes 7 inhes) wide emroidery re, you n hnge the position of ptterns, nd hek the position on the LCD. Rotte Ptterns You n rotte ptterns one degree, ten degrees or ninety degrees t time. Enlrge or Redue Ptterns You n mke ptterns lrger or smller. This funtion is not ville for some ptterns. Crete Mirror Imges You n rete horizontl mirror imges. This funtion is not ville for some ptterns. Chnge Alphet Chrter Sping You n inrese or derese the sping etween hrters in omined ptterns. Chnge Alphet Chrter Apperne/Lyout You n hnge the lyout of the hrters to urved line, digonl, et. There re 6 hoies totl. Chnge the Thred Colors of Ptterns You n hnge the thred olors of the pttern to your fvorite olors. Creting Repeting Pttern You n dd opies of pttern to rete pttern tht repets in vertil or horizontl diretion. 176

188 SELECTING PATTERNS TO EDIT SELECTING PATTERNS TO EDIT Prepre the mhine for emroidery ording to the instrutions on pge 126, nd press disply the sreen elow. to e h j d g i f k Emroidery ptterns Heirloom ptterns Border ptterns d Cross stith ptterns e Florl lphet ptterns f Alphet hrter ptterns g Frme ptterns h Ptterns from n emroidery rd (sold seprtely) i Ptterns sved in the mhine s memory (see pge 170) j Ptterns sved in USB medi (see pge 170) k Ptterns sved on the omputer (see pge 171) 6 Emroidery Edit See pge 131 for more informtion on eh tegory s seletion sreen. Note You n lso sew Utility Stithes or Chrter/Deortive Stithes with the emroidery unit tthed y pressing or ( onfirmtion messge for moving the rrige will pper). Rise the feed dogs, nd then tth the pproprite presser foot efore sewing. 177

189 SELECTING PATTERNS TO EDIT Seleting Emroidery Ptterns/ Heirloom Ptterns/Border Ptterns/Cross stith Ptterns/ Florl Alphet Ptterns/Frme Ptterns d Proeed to see EDITING PATTERNS on pge 181 to edit the pttern. Selet the tegory of the pttern. Press the key of the pttern you wnt to edit. * See pges 132 nd 134 for more informtion on seleting ptterns. The pttern is displyed in the top prt of the sreen. Press. Seleting Alphet Chrter Ptterns When you selet hrter ptterns from the emroidery edit sreen, you n edit the pperne of the pttern t the sme time. Press. The pttern seleted for editing is outlined in red on the emroidery edit disply. 178

190 SELECTING PATTERNS TO EDIT Selet the font, then enter the hrters. (Exmple: A B C D) * See pge 133 for more informtion out seleting hrters. Selet the lyout. (Exmple: d ) When seleting n r, use nd to hnge the degree of the r. * Press to mke the r fltter. * Press to mke the r rounder. When seleting, nd hnge to nd. You n inrese or derese the inline. Press pttern. to hnge the lyout of the * If the hrters re too smll to see, press to view disply of ll entered hrters. 6 Emroidery Edit 179

191 SELECTING PATTERNS TO EDIT e Press sreen. to return to the originl f After you finish your seletions, press. g The emroidery edit sreen will pper. Proeed to see EDITING PATTERNS on pge 181 to edit the pttern. 180

192 EDITING PATTERNS EDITING PATTERNS d e d e Shows the size of the entire omined pttern. Shows the size of the pttern urrently seleted. Shows the distne from the enter of the frme. d Shows the olor urrently seleted, nd the numer of olors in the pttern. e Shows the degree of rottion for the pttern. If key disply is light gry, you nnot use tht funtion with the seleted pttern. 6 Emroidery Edit 181

193 EDITING PATTERNS Key Funtions k d e f g h i j l m No. Disply Key Nme Explntion Pge Arrow keys Press these keys to move the pttern in the diretion indited y the rrow on 183 ( Center key) the key. (Press to return the pttern to its originl position.) Border key Press this key to mke repeting pttern. 190 Rotte key Press this key to rotte the pttern. You n rotte pttern one degree, ten degrees or ninety degrees t time. d Size key Press this key to hnge the size of the pttern. Ptterns n e enlrged or redued e Density key Press this key to hnge the density of frme ptterns or hrter ptterns. 162 f Horizontl mirror imge key Press this key to mke horizontl mirror imge of the seleted pttern. 162 g Chrter sping key Press this key to hnge the sping of hrter ptterns. 185 h Arry key Press this key to hnge the onfigurtion of hrter pttern. 185 i Multi olor key Press this key to hnge the olor of individul hrters in pttern. 186 j Thred plette key Press this key to hnge the olors of the displyed pttern. 187 k Pttern selet key When omined pttern is seleted, use these keys to selet prt of the pttern to edit. l Delete key Press this key to delete the seleted pttern (the pttern outlined y the red ox). 185 m Edit end key Press this key to ontinue to the next step

194 EDITING PATTERNS Moving the Pttern Press to move the pttern in the diretion shown on the key. Press to return the pttern to the enter. Selet the ngle y whih the pttern is rotted. * Press to rotte the pttern 90 degrees to the left. * Press to rotte the pttern 90 degrees to the right. * Press to rotte the pttern 10 degrees to the left. * Press to rotte the pttern 10 degrees to the right. * Press to rotte the pttern 1 degree to the left. * Press to rotte the pttern 1 degree to the right. * Press to return the pttern to its originl position. Distne from the enter Rotting the Pttern Press. 6 Degree of the pttern s rottion Emroidery Edit 183

195 EDITING PATTERNS Press sreen. to return to the originl Selet the diretion in whih to hnge the size. * Press to enlrge the pttern. * Press to shrink the pttern. * Press to streth the pttern horizontlly. * Press to ompt the pttern horizontlly. * Press to streth the pttern vertilly. * Press to ompt the pttern vertilly. * Press to return the pttern to its originl pperne. Chnging the Size of the Pttern Press. Shows the size of the pttern eing edited. Press sreen. to return to the originl 184

196 EDITING PATTERNS Deleting the Pttern Press to delete the pttern from the sreen. Press the key of the lyout you wnt to emroider. * See pge 179 for more informtion out lyout types. Chnging the Configurtion of Alphet Chrter Ptterns Press. The disply will show the seleted lyout. Press. Chnging Alphet Chrter Sping Press. 6 Emroidery Edit 185

197 EDITING PATTERNS Use or to hnge the sping. * Press to widen the hrter sping. * Press to tighten the hrter sping. * Press to return the pttern to its originl pperne. Chnging the Color of Eh Alphet Chrter in Pttern Press so you n ssign thred olor to eh hrter. Chnge the thred to sew eh hrter in different olor. Press sreen. to return to the originl * Press to hnge the olors in the sewing order (see pge 187). Color for eh hrter 186

198 EDITING PATTERNS Chnging the Thred Color You n hnge the thred olor y moving the olor to e hnged to the top of the sewing order nd seleting new olor from the thred olors in the mhine. Press. Press to hoose new olor from the olor plette. * To return to the originl olor, press. If multiple olors hve een hnged, this ommnd will return ll olors to their originl olors. * You n selet olors from the olor plette y diretly touhing the sreen with the touh pen. Color plette The thred olor plette sreen displys. The seleted olor ppers t the top of the sewing order. Press or to put the olor you wnt to hnge t the top of the sewing order. d Press. 6 Emroidery Edit Color plette/custom thred tle hnge key The disply shows the hnged olors. To selet olor from the Custom Thred Tle, see Choosing Color from the Custom Thred Tle on pge

199 EDITING PATTERNS Creting Custom Thred Tle You n rete ustom thred tle ontining the thred olors tht you most often use. You n selet thred olors from the mhine s extensive list of thred olors from five different thred rnds. You n selet ny olor nd move the olor to your ustom thred tle. Note Some mhines my lredy hve n dditionl 300 Roison-Anton thred olors ontined in the ustom thred tle. Use to selet one of the thred rnds in the mhine. d Use to enter olor s 4-digit numer. * If you mke mistke, press to erse the entered numer, nd then enter the orret numer. Press, nd then press. Press to disply P. 5. Use to selet where to dd olor on the ustom thred tle. * You n lso touh the plette diretly with the touh pen. * You n sroll through 100 olors t time using nd on the ustom thred tle. Thred rnd e Press. Custom thred tle Thred rnd Entered numer The seleted thred olor is set in the ustom thred tle. Note If is not pressed, the thred olor numer will not e hnged. 188

200 EDITING PATTERNS f Repet the previous steps until ll desired thred olors re speified. * To delete speified olor from the plette, press. d Press. e Repet the previous steps until ll desired thred olors re speified. g Press sreen. to return to the originl * To delete speified olor from the plette, press. Choosing Color from the Custom Thred Tle You n selet olor from the up to 300 thred olors you hve set in the ustom thred tle. Press. Adding Color to the Custom Thred Tle from the List Press Repet the previous steps through. to disply the thred list. 6 Use to selet thred olor. The thred olor plette sreen displys. Press or to put the olor you wnt to hnge t the top of the sewing order. Emroidery Edit Thred list Thred rnd 189

201 EDITING PATTERNS Press. Designing Repeted Ptterns Sewing Repeted Ptterns Using the order funtion, you n rete stithes using repeted ptterns. You n lso djust the sping of the ptterns within repeted pttern stith. Selet pttern, nd then press. Press. Color plette/custom thred hnge key Color plette The ustom thred tle will pper. d Press to hoose new olor from the ustom thred tle. * Use nd to sroll through the ustom thred tle. * Press to return to the originl olor. * You n selet olors from the ustom thred tle y diretly touhing the sreen with the touh pen. Custom thred Custom thred tle The disply shows the hnged olors. e Press. 190

202 EDITING PATTERNS Selet the diretion in whih the pttern will e repeted. Adjust the sping of the repeted pttern. e * To widen sping, press. * To tighten sping, press. d Vertil diretion Horizontl diretion Repeting nd deleting keys d Sping keys The pttern diretion inditor will hnge depending on the diretion seleted. You n only djust the sping of ptterns enlosed in the red frme. d Use to repet the pttern on top nd f Complete repeted ptterns y repeting steps through e. to repet the pttern t the ottom. * To delete the top pttern, press. * To delete the ottom pttern, press. g Press to finish repeting. When there re two or more ptterns, ll ptterns will e grouped together s one pttern in the red frme. 6 Emroidery Edit When hnging the diretion in whih the pttern will e repeted, ll of the ptterns in the red frme will utomtilly e grouped s one repeting unit. Press to hnge repeted pttern k to one single pttern. See the following setion on how to repet one element of repeted pttern. 191

203 EDITING PATTERNS Repeting One Element of Repeted Pttern By using the Cut funtion, you n selet one element of repeted pttern nd repet only tht single element. This funtion llows you to design omplex repeted ptterns. Press. Choose the diretion in whih the repeted pttern will e ut. * Press to ut horizontlly. * Press to ut vertilly. The repeted pttern will e divided into seprte elements. Use d nd to selet the element to repet. The pttern diretion inditor will hnge depending on the diretion seleted. Use nd to selet the ut line. The ut line will move. 192

204 EDITING PATTERNS e f Press Repet the seleted element. to finish repeting. Assigning Thred Mrks By sewing thred mrks, you n esily lign ptterns when sewing series. When sewing is finished on pttern, thred mrk in the shpe of n rrow will e sewn using the finl thred. When sewing series of ptterns, use the point of this rrow for positioning the following designs to e sewn. When repetedly sewing individul ptterns, thred mrks n e sewn round the perimeter of the pttern only. You nnot sew mrks in lotions displyed in light gry. Press Press. Note One you hve ut repeted pttern into seprte elements, you nnot return to the originl repeted pttern. 6 Emroidery Edit 193

205 EDITING PATTERNS Press e sewn. to selet the thred mrk to After Editing Press. When there re two or more elements, use nd or nd to selet pttern tht you wnt to ssign thred mrk(s) to. If you wnt to sew the pttern immeditely, press to ll up the sewing sreen. d Press. * Press to return to the emroidery edit sreen. * To omine the pttern with other ptterns, selet the next pttern from this sreen (see pge 195). * See pge 146 for more informtion out sewing ptterns. If you return to the edit sreen fter pressing, press, then. 194

206 COMBINING PATTERNS COMBINING PATTERNS Editing Comined Ptterns Use to view P.4, then selet. Exmple: Comining lphet hrters with n emroidery pttern nd editing Press pttern. to selet n emroidery Press. 6 Emroidery Edit 195

207 COMBINING PATTERNS d Press. f Selet nd enter Sewing. * After seleting, press to hnge the hrter size to M, then enter the remining hrters. e Press hrters. to enter the lphet The hrters you enter will e displyed in the enter of the disply. g Press. h Use to move the hrters. i Press hrters. to hnge the lyout of the * See pge 185 for more informtion out hnging the lyout. 196

208 COMBINING PATTERNS j Press hrters. to hnge the olor of the * See pge 187 for more informtion out hnging the olor. Sewing Comined Ptterns Comined ptterns will e emroidered in the order they were entered. In this exmple, the emroidery order will e s follows: Note Follow the diretions in Sewing Emroidery Ptterns on pge 147. Emroider y following the olor order on the right side of the disply. k When ll editing is finished, press. When the order is finished, the [+] ursor will move to the Sewing prt of the pttern. Emroider. 6 Emroidery Edit When Sewing is emroidered, the disply returns to the sewing sreen. 197

209 USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION USING THE MEMORY FUNCTION In the sme wy s emroidery ptterns in Chpter 5, you n sve nd retrieve edited emroidery ptterns to nd from the mhine s memory, personl omputer, or USB medi. Refer to the relevnt setions in Chpter 5 on sving nd retrieving emroidery ptterns nd follow the sme proedures in order to sve nd retrieve edited emroidery ptterns. See pge 164 for more informtion out the MEMORY FUNCTION. 198

210 Chpter 7 MY CUSTOM STITCH DESIGNING A STITCH ENTERING STITCH DATA Key Funtions Moving Point Moving Prt or All of the Design Inserting New Points USING STORED CUSTOM STITCHES Storing Custom Stithes in Your List If the ry is Full Retrieving Stored Stithes...208

211 DESIGNING A STITCH DESIGNING A STITCH By using the MY CUSTOM STITCH funtion, you n register stithes you hve reted yourself. You n lso sew designs omining MY CUSTOM STITCH retions with uilt-in hrters (see pge 110). Deide the sping of the stith. * By djusting the sping of stith, you n rete vrious ptterns with one stith. Stithes tht you rete with MY CUSTOM STITCH n e mximum of 7 mm (pprox. 9/32 inh) wide nd 37 mm (pprox. 1-1/3 inhes) long. Stithes n e designed more esily with MY CUSTOM STITCH if you first drw the stith on the inluded grid sheet. Drw the stith design on the grid sheet (prt ode SA507, X ). Simplify the design so tht it n e sewn s ontinuous line. For more ttrtive stith, lose the design y interseting lines. Ple points where the pttern intersets with the grid, nd onnet ll the points with line. If the design is to e repeted nd linked, the strt point nd end point of the design should e t the sme height. d Determine the x nd y oordintes of eh of the mrked points. This will determine the stith design tht will e sewn. 200

212 DESIGNING A STITCH Exmples of Custom Stithes Stith Stith Stith Stith Stith Stith Stith Stith Stith Stith Stith Stith MY CUSTOM STITCH

213 ENTERING STITCH DATA ENTERING STITCH DATA Key Funtions d g h n e f i j k l m o p This re displys the stith eing reted. Displys the numer of the present set point over the totl numer of points in the stith. Displys the y-oordinte of over the x-oordinte of. No. Disply Key Nme Explntion Pge d Enlrger key Press this key to see n enlrged version of the stith eing reted. 203 e Grid diretion key Press this key to hnge the diretion of the grid sheet. 203 f Imge key Press this key to view n imge of the stith. 204 g Arrow keys Use these keys to move over the disply re h Set key Press this key to set point on the stith design i Single/triple stithing key Press this key to selet whether one or three stithes will e sewn etween two points. j Point delete key Press this key to delete seleted point k Blok move key Press this key to group points together nd move them together. 205 l Insert key Press this key to insert new points on the stith design. 206 m Point-to-point key Use these keys to move from point to point on the stith, or to the first or lst point entered on the stith. n Return key Press this key to exit the entering stith dt sreen. o Test key Press this key to sew test-run of the stith. 204, 207 p MY CUSTOM STITCH memory key Press this utton to store the stith eing reted

214 ENTERING STITCH DATA Press. Press. d Press. to dd the point indited y * To insert oordintes with the touh pen, move the tip of the pen to desired point. One you relese the pen from the sreen point will e entered into the grph t those oordintes. The numer of the urrently seleted point long with the totl numer of points will e displyed. Use to move to the oordintes of the first point on the grid sheet. * Press to hnge the diretion of the grid sheet. * Press to enlrge the imge of the stith eing reted. e Selet whether one stith or three stithes will e sewn etween the first two points. * To sew three stithes, press the key so tht it ppers s. f Use to move to the seond point nd press. 7 MY CUSTOM STITCH Currently seleted point/totl numer of points Coordintes of Whenever is in the top left orner of the LCD disply, you n use the touh pen to enter dt. 203

215 ENTERING STITCH DATA g Repet the steps ove for eh point tht you hve drwn on the grid sheet until the stith design is drwn on the sreen s ontinuous line. * Press to delete seleted point entered. * Press to sew test-run of the stith. Press to return to the originl sreen. * Press to view n imge of the stith. Moving Point Press or to move to the point tht you wnt to move. * To move to the first point, press. * To move to the lst point, press. * You n lso move y using the touh pen. If you hve entered points tht re too lose together, the fri my not feed properly. Edit the stith dt to leve lrger spe etween points. If the stith design is to e repeted nd linked, mke sure tht linking stithes re dded so tht the stith designs will not overlp. Use to move the point. Linking stithes 204

216 Moving Prt or All of the Design Press or to move to the first point of the setion tht you wnt to move. * To move to the first point, press. ENTERING STITCH DATA Press or to move the setion. * To move to the lst point, press. * You n lso move y using the touh pen. d Press. Press. 7 The setion will e moved. MY CUSTOM STITCH The seleted point nd ll points tht were entered fter it re seleted. 205

217 ENTERING STITCH DATA Inserting New Points Press or to move to ple on the design where you wnt to dd new point. * To move to the first point, press. Use to move the point. * To move to the lst point, press. * You n lso move y using the touh pen. Press. A new point is entered nd moves to it. 206

218 USING STORED CUSTOM STITCHES USING STORED CUSTOM STITCHES Storing Custom Stithes in Your List Stith ptterns reted using the MY CUSTOM STITCH funtion n e stored for lter use. One you finish entering the stith dt, press. The Sving messge ppers nd the stith will e stored. If the ry is Full If the following messge ppers fter is pressed, the stith pttern nnot e stored euse either the mhine s memory is full or the stith pttern eing stored is lrger thn the mount of spe ville in the memory. To e le to store the stith pttern in the mhine s memory, previously stored stith pttern must e deleted. to sew test- Before storing stith, press run of the stith. Storing stith pttern tkes few seonds. For detils on retrieving stored stith pttern, see pge 208. Note Do not turn off the mhine while the Sving messge is displyed, otherwise the stith pttern dt eing sved my e lost. Note To sve ustom stithes to USB medi or in the omputer, follow the previously desried proedure to store the ustom stith, nd then press to selet the stith (see the following Retrieving Stored Stithes setion). Press to sve the stith to USB medi or in the omputer. (For detils, see Sving Stith Ptterns to USB Medi (Commerilly Aville) on pge 120 or Sving Stith Ptterns in the Computer on pge 121.) 7 MY CUSTOM STITCH 207

219 USING STORED CUSTOM STITCHES Retrieving Stored Stithes Press. Press. * To delete the stored stith pttern, press. * To edit the stored stith pttern, press. A list of stored stith ptterns is displyed. Selet the stith pttern. * Press to return to the previous sreen without retrieving. 208

220 Chpter 8 Appendix CARE AND MAINTENANCE Clening the LCD Sreen Clening the Mhine Csing Clening the Re ADJUSTING THE SCREEN Sreen Visiility is Low Touh Pnel is Mlfuntioning TROUBLESHOOTING ERROR MESSAGES Alrm Sounds SPECIFICATIONS UPGRADING YOUR MACHINE S SOFTWARE Upgrde Proedure Using USB Medi Upgrde Proedure Using Computer...224

221 CARE AND MAINTENANCE CARE AND MAINTENANCE CAUTION Be sure to unplug the mhine efore lening it. Otherwise, eletri shok or injury my result. Clening the LCD Sreen Grsp the oin se, nd then pull it out. g If the sreen is dirty, gently wipe it with soft, dry loth. Do not use orgni solvents or detergents. Clening the Mhine Csing If the surfe of the mhine is dirty, lightly sok loth in neutrl detergent, squeeze it out firmly, nd then wipe the surfe. Then wipe gin with dry loth. Boin se Clening the Re If dust or its of dirt ollet in the re or oin se, the mhine will not run well, nd the oin thred detetion funtion my not operte. Keep the mhine len for est results. h Use the lening rush or vuum lener to remove ny lint nd dust from the re nd its surrounding re. * Do not pply oil to the oin se. Press the Needle Position utton to rise the needle. Lower the presser foot. Turn the min power to OFF. Remove the needle nd the presser foot d holder (see pges 33 through 34). e f Remove the flt ed tthment or the emroidery unit if either is tthed. Grsp oth sides of the needle plte over, nd then slide it towrd you. Clening rush Re Needle plte over The needle plte over is removed. 210

222 CARE AND MAINTENANCE i Insert the oin se so tht the projetion on the oin se ligns with the spring. j Projetion Spring Insert the ts on the needle plte over into the needle plte, nd then slide the over k on. Note Never use oin se tht is srthed; otherwise, the upper thred my eome tngled, the needle my rek, or sewing performne my suffer. For new oin se (prt ode: XC (green srew), XC (pink srew)), ontt your nerest uthorized servie enter. Be sure tht the oin se is orretly instlled. Otherwise, the needle my rek. 8 Appendix 211

223 ADJUSTING THE SCREEN ADJUSTING THE SCREEN Sreen Visiility is Low If the sreen is diffiult to see when you turn on the power, follow the steps elow. Press your finger nywhere on the sreen. Holding your finger on the sreen, turn the min power swith to OFF nd k to ON. Touh Pnel is Mlfuntioning If the sreen does not respond orretly when you touh key (the mhine does not perform the opertion or performs different opertion), follow the steps elow to mke the proper djustments. Press your finger nywhere on the sreen. Holding your finger on the sreen, turn the min power swith to OFF nd k to ON. BRIGHTNESS OF LCD is displyed. Use the, keys to djust the sreen until you n see it esily. BRIGHTNESS OF LCD is displyed. Press the Automti Threding utton. The touh pnel djustment sreen is displyed. Turn the min power to OFF nd k to ON. 212

224 ADJUSTING THE SCREEN Using the inluded touh pen, lightly touh the enter of eh +, in order from 1 to 5. * If the uzzer sounds one time fter you press numer 5, the opertion is finished. If the uzzer sounds twie, there ws n error. In this se, repet the steps ove. Note Only use the inluded touh pen to touh the sreen. Do not use mehnil penil, pin, or other shrp ojet. Do not press strongly on the sreen. Otherwise, dmge my result d Turn the min power to OFF, then turn it k to ON. Note If you finish the sreen djustment nd the sreen still does not respond, or if you nnot do the djustment, ontt your uthorized deler. 8 Appendix 213

225 TROUBLESHOOTING TROUBLESHOOTING If you hve minor prolem with your sewing mhine, hek the following solutions. If the solutions suggested do not orret the prolem, ontt your uthorized deler. You n lso press then for dvie out minor sewing prolems during sewing. Press the originl sreen. t ny time to return to 214 Prolem Cuse Solution Pge Upper thred reks Mhine is not threded orretly (used the wrong spool p, spool p is loose, the thred did not th the needle r threder, et.) Rethred the mhine orretly. 25 Thred is knotted or tngled. Rethred upper nd lower thred. 22, 25 Thred is too thik for the needle. Chek needle nd thred omintions. 36 Upper thred tension is too strong. Adjust the thred tension. 43, 154 Thred is twisted. Use sissors, et., to ut the twisted thred nd remove it from the re, et. Needle is turned, ent or the point is dull. Reple the needle. 34 Needle is instlled inorretly. Reinstll the needle orretly. 34 There re srthes ner the hole of the needle plte. There re srthes ner the hole in the presser foot. There re srthes on the re. Reple the needle plte, or onsult your uthorized deler. Reple the presser foot, or onsult your uthorized deler. Reple the re, or onsult your uthorized deler. Boin thred reks Boin is set inorretly. Reset the oin thred orretly. 22 There re srthes on the oin or it doesn t Reple the oin. 22 rotte properly. Thred is twisted. Use sissors, et. to ut the twisted thred nd remove it from the re, et. Skipped stithes Mhine is threded inorretly. Chek the steps for threding the mhine nd rethred it orretly. 25 Fri pukers High-pithed sound while sewing Cnnot thred the needle Using improper needle or thred for the seleted fri. Chek the Fri/Thred/Needle Comintion hrt. Needle is turned, ent or the point is dull. Reple the needle. 34 Needle is instlled inorretly. Reinstll the needle orretly. 34 Needle is defetive. Reple the needle. 34 Dust or lint hs olleted under the needle plte. Remove the dust or lint with the rush. 210 There is mistke in the upper or oin threding. Spool p is set inorretly. Using improper needle or thred for the seleted fri. Chek the steps for threding the mhine nd rethred it orretly. Chek the method for tthing the spool p, then retth the spool p. Chek the Fri/Thred/Needle Comintion hrt , 25 Needle is turned, ent or the point is dull. Reple the needle. 34 Stithes re too long when sewing thin fris. Shorten the stith length. 42 Thred tension is set inorretly. Adjust the thred tension. 43, 154 Wrong presser foot. Use the orret presser foot. STITCH SETTING CHART Dust or lint is ught in the feed dogs. Remove the dust or lint. 210 Piees of thred re ught in the re. Clen the re. 210 Upper threding is inorret. Chek the steps for threding the mhine 25 nd rethred the mhine. There re srthes on the re. Reple the re, or onsult your uthorized deler. 210 Needle is not in the orret position. Threding hook does not pss through the eye of the needle. Press the Needle Position utton to rise the needle. Press the Needle Position utton to rise the needle. Needle is instlled inorretly. Reinstll the needle orretly

226 TROUBLESHOOTING Prolem Cuse Solution Pge Cnnot lower the presser foot with the presser foot lever Thred tension is inorret Chrter pttern does not turn out Emroidery pttern does not sew out orretly Presser foot ws rised using the Presser Foot Lifter utton. Press the Presser Foot Lifter utton to lower the presser foot. Upper threding is inorret. Chek the steps for threding the mhine 25 nd rethred the mhine. Boin is set inorretly. Reset the oin. 22 Using improper needle or thred for the seleted fri. Chek the Fri/Thred/Needle Comintion hrt. Presser foot holder is not tthed orretly. Retth the presser foot holder orretly. 33 Thred tension is set inorretly. Adjust the thred tension. 43, 154 Wrong presser foot ws used. Atth the orret presser foot. STITCH SETTING CHART Pttern djustment settings were set inorretly. Revise the pttern djustment settings. 103 Did not use stilizer mteril on thin fris Atth stilizer mteril. 102 or streth fris. Thred tension is set inorretly. Adjust the thred tension. 43, 154 Thred is twisted. Fri ws not inserted into the frme orretly (fri ws loose, et.). Stilizing mteril ws not tthed. There ws n ojet pled ner the mhine, nd the rrige or emroidery frme hit the ojet during sewing. Fri outside the frme edges interferes with the sewing rm, so the emroidery unit nnot move. Fri is too hevy, so the emroidery unit nnot move freely. Fri is hnging off the tle. Fri is sngged or ught on something. Emroidery frme ws removed during sewing (for exmple, to reset the oin). The presser foot ws umped or moved while removing or tthing the emroidery frme, or the emroidery unit ws moved. Use sissors, et., to ut the twisted thred nd remove it from the re, et. If the fri is not strethed tight in the frme, the pttern my turn out poorly or there my e shrinkge of the pttern. Set the fri into the frme orretly. Alwys use stilizing mteril, espeilly with streth fris, lightweight fris, fris with orse weve, or fris tht often use pttern shrinkge. See your uthorized deler for the proper stilizer. If the frme umps something during sewing, the pttern will turn out poorly. Do not ple nything in the re where the frme my ump it during sewing. Reinsert the fri in the emroidery frme so tht the exess fri is wy from the sewing rm, nd rotte the pttern 180 degrees. Ple lrge thik ook or similr ojet under the rm hed to lightly lift the hevy side nd keep it level. If the fri is hnging off the tle during emroidery, the emroidery unit will not move freely. Ple the fri so tht it does not hng off the tle or hold the fri to keep it from drgging. Stop the mhine nd ple the fri so tht it does not get ught or sngged. If the presser foot is umped or the emroidery unit is moved during sewing, the pttern will not turn out. Be reful when removing or retthing the emroidery frme during sewing Appendix 215

227 TROUBLESHOOTING Prolem Cuse Solution Pge Needle reks Needle is instlled inorretly. Reinstll the needle orretly. 34 Needle lmp srew is not tightened. Tighten the needle lmp srew. 35 Needle is turned or ent. Reple the needle. 34 Fri does not feed through the mhine Mhine does not operte Emroidery unit does not operte LCD disply is diffiult to see Nothing hppens, even if the LCD disply is pressed Using improper needle or thred for the seleted fri. Chek the Fri/Thred/Needle Comintion hrt. Wrong presser foot ws used. Use the reommended presser foot. STITCH SETTING CHART Upper thred tension is too strong. Adjust the thred tension setting. 43, 154 Fri is pulled during sewing. Do not pull the fri during sewing. Spool p is set inorretly. Chek the method for tthing the spool p, then retth the spool p. 25 There re srthes round the holes in the needle plte. There re srthes round the hole(s) in the presser foot. There re srthes on the re. Reple the needle plte, or onsult your uthorized deler. Reple the presser foot, or onsult your uthorized deler. Reple the re, or onsult your uthorized deler. Needle is defetive. Reple the needle. 34 Feed dogs re set in the down position. Use the feed dog position lever to rise the 71 feed dogs. Stithes re too lose together. Lengthen the stith length setting. 42 Wrong presser foot ws used. Use the orret presser foot. STITCH SETTING CHART Needle is turned, ent or the point is dull. Reple the needle. 34 Thred is entngled. Cut the entngled thred nd remove it from the re. There is no pttern seleted. Selet pttern. 48, 98, 130, 177 Strt/Stop utton ws not pushed. Press the Strt/Stop utton. 3 Min power swith is not turned on. Turn the min power to ON. 8 Presser foot is not lowered. Lower the presser foot. 3 Strt/Stop utton ws pushed with the foot ontroller tthed. Speed ontrol lever is set to ontrol the zigzg stith width. All keys nd uttons hve een loked y. Remove the foot ontroller, or use the foot ontroller to operte the mhine. Use the foot ontroller insted of the Strt/ Stop utton to operte the mhine. Press uttons. to unlok ll keys nd , 34 There is no pttern seleted. Selet pttern. 130, 177 Min power swith is not turned on. Turn the min power to ON. 8 Emroidery unit is not tthed orretly. Retth the emroidery unit orretly. 128 Emroidery frme ws tthed efore the unit ws initilized. Perform the initiliztion proess orretly. 128 LCD ontrst is not properly djusted. Adjust the LCD ontrst. 15, 212 The sreen hs een loked. Press either of the following keys to unlok the sreen. CAUTION This mhine is equipped with thred detetion devie. If the Strt/Stop utton is pushed efore the upper threding is done, the mhine will not operte properly. Also, depending on the pttern seleted, the mhine my feed the fri even if the needle is rised. This is due to the needle r relese mehnism. At these times, the mhine will mke sound different from tht mde during norml sewing. This is not the sign of mlfuntion. If the power is disonneted during sewing: Turn the min power to OFF nd unplug the mhine. If you restrt the mhine, follow the instrutions for operting the mhine orretly. 216

228 ERROR MESSAGES ERROR MESSAGES If the mhine is not properly set nd the Strt/Stop utton or the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton is pressed, or if the opertion proedure is inorret, the mhine does not strt. An lrm sounds nd n error messge is displyed on the LCD. If n error messge displys, follow the instrutions in the messge. Below is n explntion of 55 error messges. Refer to these when neessry (if you press or do the opertion orretly while the error messge is displyed, the messge disppers). CAUTION Be sure to rethred the mhine. If you press the Strt/Stop utton without rethreding the mhine, the thred tension my e wrong or the needle my rek nd use injury. This messge is displyed when the motor loks due to tngled thred or for other resons relted to thred delivery. This messge is displyed if the is touhed when n unusle emroidery rd is inserted. This messge is displyed when utton, suh s the Strt/Stop utton, is pushed while the presser foot is rised. This messge is displyed when there is no stith or emroidery pttern seleted nd the Strt/ Stop utton or the Reverse/ Reinforement Stith utton is pressed. This messge is displyed when the upper thred is roken or not threded orretly, nd the Strt/Stop utton or the Reverse/ Reinforement Stith utton is pressed. This messge is displyed when the Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton is pushed while the emroidery unit is tthed. 8 This messge is displyed when the is touhed This messge is displyed when you try to omine more thn 71 ptterns. Appendix without n emroidery rd inserted. 217

229 ERROR MESSAGES This messge is displyed when the ptterns you re editing tke up too muh memory, or if you re editing too mny ptterns for the memory. This messge is displyed when the emroidery unit is tthed nd the power is turned on with the needle in the down position. This messge is displyed when the Strt/Stop utton is pushed to sew Utility stithes or Chrter/Deortive stithes while the foot ontroller is onneted. (This messge does not pper when emroidering.) This messge is displyed when the uttonhole lever is up, uttonhole stith is seleted, nd the Strt/ Stop utton or Reverse/Reinforement Stith utton is pushed. This messge is displyed when the Strt/ Stop utton is pushed while the mhine is in emroidery edit mode nd pttern is eing edited. This messge is displyed when there re too mny hrters nd the urved hrter onfigurtion is impossile. This messge is displyed when key on the LCD disply is touhed while the needle is in the down position. This messge is displyed when the mhine is in emroidery mode nd the omined hrter pttern is too lrge for the emroidery frme. You n rotte the pttern 90 degrees nd ontinue omining hrters. This messge is displyed when the uttonhole lever is down, stith other thn uttonhole is seleted, nd the Strt/ Stop utton or the Reverse/ Reinforement Stith utton is pushed. This messge is displyed when the mhine is in emroidery mode, nd the hrter pttern omintion is too lrge to fit in the emroidery frme. 218

230 ERROR MESSAGES This messge is displyed when the mhine is in emroidery mode nd the smll frme is tthed, nd the seleted pttern does not fit in the smll frme. This messge is displyed when the oin is eing wound, nd the motor loks euse the thred is tngled, et. This messge is displyed when, with the mhine in emroidery mode nd the smll emroidery frme or medium emroidery frme tthed, the seleted pttern is lrger thn the emroidery re of the medium emroidery frme. This messge is displyed when the oin thred is running out. This messge is displyed when, with the mhine in emroidery mode nd the smll emroidery frme, medium emroidery frme or lrge emroidery frme tthed, the seleted pttern is lrger thn the emroidery re of the lrge emroidery frme. This messge is displyed when the emroidery unit is initilizing. This messge is displyed when the mhine is in emroidery mode nd the emroidery unit tries to initilize while the emroidery frme is tthed. This messge is displyed when the memory is full nd the stith or pttern nnot e sved. This messge is displyed when the mhine is redy to sew n emroidery pttern, nd the Strt/Stop utton is pushed while the emroidery frme is not tthed. This messge is displyed when the mhine is retrieving previously sved pttern while in emroidery edit mode. 8 Appendix 219

231 ERROR MESSAGES This messge is displyed when, fter seleting pttern,,,, This messge is displyed when the foot ontroller is pressed while the emroidery unit is tthed. or is pressed nd the pttern is out to e deleted. This messge is displyed when the speed ontrol lever is set to ontrol the zigzg stith width, nd the Strt/ Stop utton is pushed. Use the foot ontroller to operte the mhine. This messge is displyed when there is possiility tht the dt for the seleted pttern is orrupted. This messge is displyed when the mhine is in emroidery edit mode, nd you try to use n editing funtion when the pttern is not ompletely within the red outline. This messge is displyed when is pressed when hnging thred olors. This messge is displyed when you try to sve opyright proteted pttern to USB medi/ Computer. Aording to opyright lws, ptterns tht re illegl to reprodue or edit nnot e sved to floppy disks. If this messge displys, sve the pttern in the mhine s memory. This messge is displyed when the Strt/Stop utton is pushed without rising the feed dogs fter the feed dogs re lowered or fter the emroidery unit is tthed. This messge is displyed when the mhine is in twin needle mode nd pttern tht nnot e sewn with the twin needle is seleted. This messge is displyed when either or is pressed when the feed dogs re lowered. 220

232 ERROR MESSAGES This messge is displyed when the Strt/Stop utton is pushed nd the mhine is in emroidery mode, ut the emroidery unit is not tthed. This messge is displyed while the USB medi is trnsmitting. This messge is displyed when you try to rell or sve pttern while no USB medi is loded. This messge is displyed when the memory is full nd pttern must e deleted. This messge is displyed when you try to use inomptile medi. This messge is displyed when the Presser Foot Lifter utton is pushed while the presser foot lever is rised/the needle is lowered. This messge is displyed when you ttempt to selet pttern fter the USB medi in whih the pttern is sved hs een hnged. This messge is displyed if some mlfuntion ours. This messge is displyed when n error ours with the USB medi. This messge is displyed when you try to sew with stith other thn middle needle position stith while the single-hole needle plte is instlled. This messge is displyed when the needle plte is removed with the mhine on or when the mhine is turned on in the emroidery or emroidery edit mode. 8 Appendix 221