The function buttons you have right here at your fingertips are wonderful.
Now, keep in mind, if you're in the sewing mode, they will do one thing.
When you're in the embroidery mode, these quick-reference functions will do different
things within your machine.
Make sure you check that video out, because we'll use these for different things later.
Starting at the top, the speed, if you plus it or minus it, you can slow the machine down
from its maximum speed.
At the slowest speed, that's as fast as it goes, and that's really nice, that everything
can be nice and controlled.
We'll go ahead and put that back up on the screen.
The next one is your selective thread cutter.
When it's pushed when you are stopped, it will cut the thread and lift the foot.
Keep in mind, when you are sewing along, if you are sewing while you push it, it will
lock it, or fix, it will cut, and lift, all at once, and it really is an all-in-one feature.
Keep that in mind.
Sometimes when you push these functions, they'll do different things, whether you're sewing
or not.
Here you have your needle up or needle down positioning, so right now the light is at
the top, so every time I stop, the needle is in the up position.
By touch it one time, it moves the light to the lower part, and now the needle stops in
the fabric, allowing it really easy to stop and pivot, because you got it set for the
sensor system to pivot.
What's nice is, if I Have a really, really, really thick fabric underneath, here, it still
will lift from this new height, so you always have that nice little 1/8 of an inch lift,
no matter how thick a fabric you're on.
Once again, when I'm done, push that selective thread cutter while I'm sewing and you really
don't even have to keep your foot on the foot control once you push it, so you can lift
it up and let the machine finish out the locking and cutting.
When you're sewing, let's just say you're stopping and you want to bring your needle
up, you can just go ahead and touch it, but the foot stays down.
If your foot is down and you need it up, that's what these will do.
Will lift your presser foot up, and if you lift it up again, or push it again, it will
lift it even higher.
Look how high that is, I can get my whole finger underneath it, and the feed dogs have
dropped, so you hear a little "clunk" and those feed dogs are lowered to really give
you more space.
And then, when you start to sew again, you will hear every, your foot goes down, and
you'll hear your feed dogs re-engage as they come back up.
If you are, let's do this again, let's do our thread cutter.
Sometimes, when I'm starting, and I want to get just where it needs to be, I don't know
if I need my fabric here or here, lower the foot manually.
When you touch it, it'll come down on the fabric.
If you're not where you want to be, touch that down arrow again, and it pops the foot
up, so you can move your fabric gently underneath and get it positioned exactly where you want
it, and then just step on the foot control, or push this again, and then the foot will
go down and get you ready to sew.
That's super easy.
The fix button, we did a whole video on fix, but fix is a locking set, so any time you
want to have a locking set, you can push it.
Once you push it, it's going to lock but then it's going to take off.
If I push it while I am sewing, it locks and it stops, so that's key, there.
Once again, I like that all-in-one button with the selective thread cutter, where it
will lock it, cut it, and lift it.
The stop button, we will be using in with our decorative stitches, so if you only want
one decorative stitch to sew, or maybe get to the end of the row, and you want it to
finish, you're going to push stop, and that will finish the decorative stitch, and then
end at the last stitch.
That's wonderful to have, also, right at our fingertips.
There's a button called start/stop.
When you're in the sewing mode, you can actually use this to sew without your foot control.
I'm going to reduce the speed down really slow, so it doesn't run away from me, which
is a good idea when you're doing this.
Watch as I push the start/stop button.
When I push it, the foot goes down just like I was sewing with my foot control, except
to stop it, I need to push the start/stop button again.
Then it stops.
When you're going, once you get started, if you want to go a little faster, use this speeding
up and then, stop it at the end.
Or, use the cutter, too.
That is a great option.
You can kind of use all of these at once.
If you ever get somewhere and you forget your foot control, no problem.
You'll still be able to sew.
The start/stop button is also what we use when we're in embroidery mode, to start and
stop the machine.
That is wonderful.
Then, we have the reverse button.
When you want to go backwards, just hold it in while you're sewing, and release it for
it to come forward again.
Keep in mind, if you are not sewing, and you touch it, you're going to get a light.
That means with my hands off of it, it will sew backwards forever, until you touch the
button and turn that function off.
If you want to just have, what I call, a quick reverse, just touch it while you're sewing
and release it when you're ready to go forward.
Then, once again, select the thread cutting, and let that finish out, there.
Once it actually starts to cut, then you can lift your foot off the foot control.
The function buttons are right at your fingertips.
Practice them, because without a little practice and feel, they might not become as natural
as you and I should probably get them figured out.
Have fun working with them.