Adjusting the tension of the bobbin thread................................................................................................ 112
Adjusting the tension of the upper thread.................................................................................................. 113

EMBROIDERING SETTINGS

115

Basting Embroidery ...................................................................................................... 116
Creating an Appliqué Piece .......................................................................................... 117

Creating an appliqué piece ....................................................................................................................... 117
Using a frame pattern for the outline......................................................................................................... 120

Automatic Lock Stitch Setting ...................................................................................... 122
Starting/Ending Position Settings ..................................................................................123

Repeatedly sewing a pattern along a diagonal .......................................................................................... 124
Embroidering linked characters................................................................................................................. 125

Maximum Sewing Speed Setting................................................................................... 127
Setting the Machine to Stop at Color Changes ............................................................. 128

Stopping the machine at the next color change......................................................................................... 128
Specifying pause locations before embroidering ....................................................................................... 128

Temporary Needle Bar Setting ..................................................................................... 130

Uninterrupted embroidering (using a single color) .................................................................................... 131

Reserved Needle Bar Settings ....................................................................................... 132

SELECTING/EDITING/SAVING PATTERNS

135

Precautions................................................................................................................... 136

Concerning embroidery data .................................................................................................................... 136
Concerning optional embroidery cards ..................................................................................................... 138
Concerning USB media ............................................................................................................................ 139

Selecting an Embroidery Pattern ..................................................................................140

General pattern selection .......................................................................................................................... 140
Embroidery patterns .................................................................................................................................. 141
Frame patterns .......................................................................................................................................... 141
Monogram and frame designs ................................................................................................................... 142
Alphabet patterns...................................................................................................................................... 145
Floral alphabet patterns ............................................................................................................................ 148
Renaissance alphabet patterns .................................................................................................................. 149
Appliqué alphabet .................................................................................................................................... 150
Greek alphabet patterns ............................................................................................................................ 151
Embroidery patterns stored in the machine memory.................................................................................. 151
Embroidery cards (optional) ...................................................................................................................... 152
Computer (USB)........................................................................................................................................ 156
USB media ............................................................................................................................................... 160

Editing the Embroidery Pattern (Pattern Editing Screen) .............................................. 162

Combining patterns .................................................................................................................................. 162
Selecting the pattern to be edited .............................................................................................................. 163
Moving a pattern ...................................................................................................................................... 163
Flipping a pattern horizontally .................................................................................................................. 164
Changing the size of a pattern................................................................................................................... 164
Rotating a pattern ..................................................................................................................................... 166
Changing the text arrangement of a character ........................................................................................... 167
Changing the character spacing ................................................................................................................ 167
Separating combined character patterns ................................................................................................... 168
Trimming the threads between characters ................................................................................................. 169
Changing the thread density (only for some character and frame patterns) ................................................ 170
Specifying multi-color text ........................................................................................................................ 170
Changing the colors of the pattern ............................................................................................................ 171
Designing repeated patterns...................................................................................................................... 172
Creating a custom thread table ................................................................................................................. 176
Choosing a color from the custom thread table ......................................................................................... 179
Duplicating a pattern ................................................................................................................................ 180
Deleting a pattern ..................................................................................................................................... 180

Editing the Embroidery Pattern (Embroidering Settings Screen) .................................. 181

Rotating the entire pattern......................................................................................................................... 181