The Sewing Advisor is one of the best things about the Husqvarna Viking sewing machines.
Here's what we have.
Down here along the bottom row we are going to master what these symbols are all about.
Take a look at the top of the screen.
We see where it says B, woven medium.
That's the fabric that is currently selected, and the machine is set up for that fabric
type.
A, B, and C are woven fabrics.
As we touch A, we get to woven light, your lighter weight fabrics, your silk, satin,
slippery stuff, netting, that type of thing.
Set the machine for that particular fabric.
Then when you sew, you're going to have the right settings.
B, woven medium; C, woven heavy, like your denim, your canvases, your home dec fabrics.
That would be a great setting to start off with.
Let's go ahead and just quickly jump down to this bottom row.
These are the techniques.
As you pick the pitch number or technique number 1, it's going to say a seam.
A seam on this heavier fabric is going to show you a longer stitch line.
If we do a lightweight fabric ... Well, look.
The stitch line changes to 2.
It knows that those are the correct settings for that fabric.
One other thing that it's going to also do is adjust the pressure of the foot.
It makes it more or less, depending on your fabric that you choose.
Let's go on.
D, E, and F are going to be for stretch fabrics.
We have stretch light.
Did you notice?
We're on "seam," but the stitch changed altogether and it moved the needle position to be in
a different location.
How nice is that?
If you're a newer sewer and you're trying out different fabrics, this is your little
sewing person to help you pick the right settings.
E would be for stretch medium and then F would be for stretch heavy, like a fleece or something
of that category, heavy sweatshirts.
G is for leather and vinyl.
Now as we do a seam, your stitch is the same.
But look, you are going to be guided to use your non-stick foot H. That's why that foot
changes on-screen, because we've told it the leather/vinyl setting.
That's going to make it so it doesn't stick to those fabrics.
It's great.
Let's go ahead and go back.
We'll just do woven medium, and let's go across the bottom techniques.
Number 2 is going to be an overcast, as you want to go over the edge of your fabric, secure
the raw edges so they don't come undone.
It will also recommend a foot, an overlock foot J, that's going to be in your accessory
box.
Just look for it; put it on.
You're set to go.
Settings are set.
The pressure's set, and the right stitch length is set.
Number 3, technique number 3, is your seam and overcast.
Same foot, but a different type of stitch.
That's going to be because it's going to put a stitching line in while it's overcasting
the edge, kind of like a 2-part stitch all done in one pass as you sew.
Number 4 is a basting line, so that's going to be a super long stitch for you and quickly
give you just a basting stitch, see if you have your fabric properly put together.
If you need to alter it from there, that stitch is really easy to take out.
Number 5, blind hem stitch.
What's nice is, sometimes I don't remember where that stitch is up on the top rows.
Technique number 5, if you can't remember, just push them all until you find the right
time that it says "blind hem."
It tells you to put the blind hem foot on.
That will change based on your fabric selection.
Also, you'll get to a stretch blind hem stitch if you had a stretchy fabric selected.
Number 6 is actually a regular hem that will change based on your fabric you are choosing.
See?
With the stretchy heavy you'll get a different looking stitch.
Sometimes, too, stretch medium.
It just made the stitch a little bit narrow.
Stretch light is going to do just a regular stretch stitch.
The last one is the buttonhole.
It's going to pick the right buttonhole for your fabric.
Let's switch these around a little bit.
You'll notice it will change the different foot, and sometimes even recommend that you
cord the buttonhole, which we will show you in the buttonhole videos.
Check those out.
Sometimes they'll recommend stabilizer for the stretch light.
Let's see here.
Let's do woven light.
Also stabilizer is recommended, and it has a different looking buttonhole.
Take a look.
Use this to your advantage, because it's also adjusting the pressure of your foot and making
it just perfect.