Owner's Manual
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Embroidering From the Beginning or Middle of the Pattern ...............................................79
Resume Embroidering After Turning Off the Machine........................................................81
Adjusting the Thread Tension .............................................................................................83
Adjusting the tension of the bobbin thread ....................................................................................................... 83
Adjusting the tension of the upper thread ......................................................................................................... 84
Embroidering Settings 85
Automatic Lock Stitch Setting ............................................................................................86
Starting/Ending Position Settings ........................................................................................87
Repeatedly sewing a pattern along a diagonal.................................................................................................. 88
Maximum Sewing Speed Setting.........................................................................................89
Setting the Machine to Stop at Color Changes ...................................................................90
Stopping the machine at the next color change ................................................................................................ 90
Specifying pause locations before embroidering............................................................................................... 90
Temporary Needle Bar Setting ...........................................................................................92
Reserved Needle Bar Settings .............................................................................................94
Selecting/Editing/Saving Patterns 97
Embroidery Data Precautions.............................................................................................98
Selecting an Embroidery Pattern ........................................................................................99
General pattern selection ................................................................................................................................. 99
Embroidery patterns ....................................................................................................................................... 101
Renaissance Alphabet Patterns ....................................................................................................................... 102
Floral alphabet patterns .................................................................................................................................. 103
Appliqués alphabet ........................................................................................................................................ 104
Frame patterns ............................................................................................................................................... 105
Alphabet patterns ........................................................................................................................................... 106
Embroidery patterns stored in the machine..................................................................................................... 108
Embroidery cards (optional) ........................................................................................................................... 109
Computer (USB) ............................................................................................................................................. 111
CompactFlash cards (purchase at local retailers) ............................................................................................ 114
Floppy disks (commercially available)............................................................................................................ 116
Editing the Embroidery Pattern (Pattern Editing Screen) ..................................................118
Combining patterns........................................................................................................................................ 118
Selecting the pattern to be edited ................................................................................................................... 119
Moving a pattern ............................................................................................................................................ 119
Flipping a pattern horizontally ....................................................................................................................... 120
Flipping a pattern vertically............................................................................................................................ 120
Changing the size of a pattern ........................................................................................................................ 120
Rotating a pattern........................................................................................................................................... 121
Changing the text arrangement of a character ................................................................................................ 122
Changing the character spacing ..................................................................................................................... 123
Changing the thread density (only for some character and frame patterns) ..................................................... 124
Specifying multi-color text ............................................................................................................................. 125
Changing the colors of the pattern.................................................................................................................. 126
Deleting a pattern .......................................................................................................................................... 127
Editing the Embroidery Pattern (Embroidering Settings Screen) .......................................128
Rotating the entire pattern .............................................................................................................................. 128
Creating a repeating pattern ........................................................................................................................... 129
Changing the colors of the pattern.................................................................................................................. 130
Editing a Combined Pattern.............................................................................................. 131
Saving Embroidery Patterns..............................................................................................135
If the Embroidery Pattern Cannot Be Saved .................................................................................................... 136
Basic Settings and Help Feature 139
Using the Settings Key ......................................................................................................140
Understanding the settings screen .................................................................................................................. 140
Adjusting the brightness of the LCD ............................................................................................................... 142
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