When you learned to use the function buttons right above the needle here, this will become
your friends.
We are going to go over each of them and the fix button we are going to actually go into
a whole separate video.
Notice the fix button is actually lit up and that's because I use the selective thread
cutter the last time I took my fabric out of the machine.
Starting off the top, we have a speed plus or minus, as for sewing if we want to reduce
our speed down.
Instead of it being fast, we can go ahead and make it much, much slower and you can
see that's our max speed.
Great for sewing with youngsters or somebody who is not too familiar with this machine
we can slow it down.
We'll go ahead and increase that back up.
There is a screen that comes up and allows you to see what you are actually changing
there.
Come back to full speed.
The selective thread cutter we'll use all the time.
Touch that button, it will actually cut your thread both the needle and your [bob 00:00:54]
and lift up the presser foot for you.
When you are done, you are going to notice it leaves the tails on the back side of your
fabric, it looks perfect every time that you stop sewing.
Now on the far right side here is where the needle stopping up or down.
As we start to stitch, right now I stop and the needle is up every time I stop and that
allows us, I don't have to use the hand wheel on this side of the machine and that make
sure that my needle is always in the proper position, the stitch is always complete, my
needle threader always lines up.
I mean there is a lot of things that make a difference there.
When you touch it, now the needle will always stop in the down position.
Drop it in the down position also pops the foot up about an eight of an inch, it's hovering
but also since this fabric like this, if I was working on something that was much, much
thicker, it will stop pop up about an eight of an inch above this thicker fabric.
It's pretty cool.
That is sensor, that entire that's pretty cool.
Why would we want to do that?
Easiest thing, to the turn the corner, that makes is really easy to do.
Applicate or just put in another piece of fabric if you are piecing along and you get
to the end of one edge and then you put your next piece in, that foot is lifted up, it's
nice and it's waiting to accept that next piece of fabric.
All right.
Now across the bottom here ... let me do one more thing.
On the needle, when your needle is down, if you tap your foot control quickly at the top.
You can get a half a stitch, half a stitch, and that is a nice way to if your foot is
... let's see I should say if your needle is up and you want it down, you can tap your
toe and it will go down.
It's just another way of allowing you not to have to touch the buttons or reach for
your hand wheel as you need things to go.
Just note that is available with your presser foot.
The stop button will be used when you are doing decorative stitches and you wanted to
stop at the end of the pattern.
I just push it, it will stop at the end of my sewing and lock it for me, that's always
nice.
If I'm sewing, just push stop, it will stop and lock.
The fix button we are going to get into that with a whole another video as well as but
that is a locking stitch at the beginning at anytime.
We are just on demand, let's say we just want a lock right there, we are ready to lock it,
and then it will keep sewing though.
That's why sometimes by using the stop button instead, it locks it and stops.
Now let's go ahead and we are just going to do the selective thread cutter for our next
little functions here.
We'll pull that out, we'll slide the fabric back underneath.
There is a presser foot lift here, we can make it go.
Right now it's at a normal height.
If you touch the up arrow, it will lift another part and it will lower the feed bags down,
there is a lot of clearance that you can get in really heavy thick fabric, that's really
nice.
Those feet bags will come up as soon as you take your first stitch, I can hear a little
tiny click as they get reengaged.
Another thing is, I'm going to cut the thread, bring this up.
Sometimes when I'm starting along the edge of the fabric, I don't know if my foot is
going to come down exactly where I want it, when I just step on the foot control and I'm
like oh no, that's exact ... not exactly where I want.
I'm going to lift the foot back up.
Touch the arrow down, presser foot lowering two times.
One to lower it on the fabric and the second time to pop it back up, and now it's hovering.
Now I can slide the fabric to where I want it.
Let's say I want it right along the edge of my presser foot.
Now when I go to sew that foot, we'll go back down on the fabric and I'm right where I want
to be.
Not just guessing by having that foot just smash down on the fabric and off I go.
That's a nice one.
I use that one quite a bit more than I realize.
Again that's the ... just tap it two times, arrow down, and then pivot move your fabric
to where you want to start and then start sewing.
You can lift his back up, remember again it goes up higher, feet bags go down, that's
wonderful.
The start stop button would be as if you do not want to use your foot control to sew this.
This is be like sewing with your finger tips.
As I push it, the foot is going to go down, it's going to take off.
Now whatever the speed is for the machine, that is going to be what it maxes out in.
Sometimes what I'll do is reduce the speed if I'm using the start stop button and then
watch this, I'm not touching the foot control at all, that's max speed, I can stop it when
I'm ready or maybe turn a corner or something but there is a time and place that is helpful.
I've often use this when I'm stitching out all my decorative stitches which I highly
recommend because you have some beautiful stitches in the machine, but they don't look
nearly as pretty until you actually put them on the fabric.
Take some time but what's really nice you just start them and then sew down your fabric
and stop them.
You don't have to hold the foot control down, that's wonderful.
Then you also have your reverse button here.
As you touch it, it sews backwards.
As you release it, it sews forward.
If you touch it with the foot node in motion, it lights up.
It sew backwards the whole time.
If you ever find yourself sewing backwards, you might have touch that button and now ... the
light needs to be unlit to return it back to a forward motion there.
That's your reverse and permanent reverse function button.