the bernina 570 quilters edition is a machine that is totally customizable for the way you sew the
way i sew they're all different so if you want to override default settings or set the machine
up for things that you want it to do you're going to be going over to the home menu and we're going
into where the picture of the gears are so in here there are different categories and in each
category there are different things that we can set up what we set up in here is going to be
remembered when the machine turns off so settings that you love are going to be set here and then
you will be keeping them until you change them to something else so as we kind of work our way
through let's start in this first one with all the sewing features you're going to notice right up
here that it will show us each of the buttons that we've touched and they're going to kind of come
and grow as we dip into further and further levels of each area to go back one level you can always
touch the one right from the top so you don't go out and then have to go all the way back in
so just kind of watch as we do each of these so in these areas too if you're unfamiliar with maybe
what one of the symbols is representing touch the question mark and you can touch it and it
will then describe just like looking up in your manual what it's doing and so you can read about
it so this one was actually tension so as you can see i touched it again so now that's why there's
three little symbols up top and i can easily back up one page when i'm done instead of just xing out
so that's what i'll be doing so let's talk about tension you can actually change the global tension
of this machine by increasing it with a plus you can slide or you can even touch and turn the dials
and that will also move that little slider around remember anything that is yellow if you touch it
it does go back to its normal setting and get you kind of back to where you started so this means
that if i was using some thread that i was always seeming to adjust having to adjust the top tension
say lower by two numbers when i'm using it like some of my decorative stitches and things what
i can do is actually set it so my global tension is automatically two numbers less for the entire
machine so it doesn't matter what stitch i pick it automatically shifts it down to numbers so you can
go in and set it just remember to probably reset that back when you are done let's just go back
out one screen let's talk about speed this is like the full speed of your machine so if you just want
to drop it down instead of a thousand stitches per minute you can actually set the global speed to be
much less here is one where your needle can be used for locking but you can also
turn it off so if you are not a fan of where the machine is doing those locking stitches
you can actually switch that from green to red which is off and then it won't do the
stitches where it normally does though so i'm going to leave mine on because i do like those
all right this one's probably the one i use a lot so it has a picture of a finger touching a button
in here these items are buttons that you can customize now the one i use the most is probably
this one right here but let's go through each of them as we go so this is a foot how far do you
want that foot to lift when it is done sewing some of you might want it more or less two millimeters
of a lift is about the normal setting so you can change that when you touch the scissor button what
else would you like it to do would you like it to lock while you when you touch it so you touch
it it'll take a few extra stitches in a cluster or spread out into short very close together stitches
up to four actually from two to i think it's six yes six times you can choose that or you can turn
it off so if you don't want any extra things when you touch the scissor button for cutting
just leave it off but there is times where i love to have that do the extra lock for me the next one
the reverse this is the reverse in the back stepping option where we'll always repeat the
stitches as it came forward it will go back in the same holes as it goes backwards without that that
is just a normal back stitching and this one is actually back stepping stepping into the holes it
had just recreated for every stitch it's currently sewing you'll have to try these because everyone
will find settings that will be right for them and others that you're like eh i didn't really
see any benefit for it how about this one pattern end that's the one right here right here on the
front of your machine when you touch it do you want it to lock do you want it to cut do you want
it to lift the foot you name what you want it to do when you touch it i am a fan of letting it do
the cutting and lifting after i use it so that will finish the decorative stitch to the last
stitch so it looks good when it's done it's not halfway finished and then it will cut it and lift
i love that when i'm doing my stitch book because it makes it really easy to just get to the end of
the stitch and then move on to the next row okay here's the one i talked about that i use a lot and
the reason i use it a lot is because there's times where i have this on and then the next time i want
to actually turn it off so right now i have it set that when the needle stops in the fabric that
the foot will raise that's kind of like the pivot position well there's times that when i'm stopping
and starting so many times yes i want my needle to stop down but i don't need the foot to pop up so
i'll often come in and turn it down to the don't left feature a lot of people like this but like
i said if you're doing a lot of starts and stops this may not be ideal for you it does take just a
hair of a second to stop and lift before it starts again you can see this one's going to just lift
a little taller when i'm doing our curves for our stitching cosmos course i love that middle
feature because what it does is helps the fabric relax as i'm trying to make those curves kind of
stitch stitch pause and then they kind of relax so they don't get little puckers in the middle of it
so that is a wonderful feature to try out so find the one that works for you again uh probably the
one that i probably come in here a lot i'm turning it off and on depending um probably from project
to project okay so that's that a whole entire area so let's just come back out and our last one
here is our foot control so we know that if you rock your heel on the back of your foot control
the needle will go a half a stitch so if the needle's up it goes down and if it's down it comes
up without you having to touch one of the buttons or turn the hand wheel like that but did you know
you could actually set the heel of your foot control for other things like a cut like a foot
lift like a locking stitch so you could actually have it do other things depending on what you
would like it to be so it's programmable so if you don't want that any any other options just leave
it for that needle up needle down feature that is a great place to customize your foot control for
the way you sew okay so that's that entire screen we're going to back out now we're going to get
into the settings for the embroidery so i think i'm actually going to do most of these in another
video because as we get into embroidery they are all relevant over there but you can see that in
each one of these there are things for adjusting for the thickness of your embroidery whether
you want your thread cutter on or off locking stitches and such so there's lots that you can do
with the embroidery part this last little oh this is like your customization you can customize your
welcome screen and also the background color of your machine so right now it's been on blue and
but you could go ahead and change it to a variety of different colors and textures so have some fun
you can name your machine put it where that welcome area is and that'd be fun okay what's
this little i this i if for any reason that you are getting a message where your thread top thread
sensor is always going off you can actually come in here and turn it so the sensor is no longer
activating and you can continue to sew there's times where i want to sew with no thread in my
needle so i'll come in here and turn that off and then the machine is going to just let me sew
with no thread same thing for the bobbin if it's sensing that the bobbin is out and it's actually
not you can come in and actually turn that off but have your your machine checked out by your
local bernina technician so they can get that fixed for you but i like that you can um kind of
deactivate the sensors without totally having to stop all sewing progress now here's another thing
i've actually gone in when i started doing these videos is i turned off the sound so right now you
can actually have it so it sounds differently depending on what you are touching can find
different beeps for different things but i didn't want it to be making noise every time i touch the
screen so i actually turn that off so if you like a nice quiet sewing area you'll probably want to
eliminate the beeps to that this last one is actually kind of more of a service mode
where you can do a couple things in here we've got things like uh oh that's here i better not change
don't change the language let's get that back to english unless you're ready to know which
one you're working with let's we'll just leave that but that's your language choice the lighting
there's times where i will adjust the lighting for where i'm sewing and also the brightness of your
screen so that can all be adjusted especially if you're by a window or you're just getting some
extra light or glare on some of your fabrics like vinyls can sometimes give you a glare and
it's kind of too bright to look at while you're sewing so turn off your light all right eye for
information this is your updating area which again you can do or your local service person can do
in here we can do some of the let's see here some of the different uh oh clearing out the different
settings so this is kind of a part where you can kind of reset the machine and then here we can
do some updating calibrate your buttonhole clean the um the cutter so we'll do a video on that one
your oiling area where we can actually see how to lubricate this machine and then also
some things that relate to positioning of the embroidery module so a lot of these
are not always something i need to do but there are definitely things i do adjust from time to
time depending on my fabric my project where i'm sewing and how quiet i want it to be so i
hope you'll play around with these and try out some of those customizations especially
like the foot control the pattern end option and those needle up needle down with the foot in the
pivot position that is a quick quick overview of your settings menu for the bernina 570.