Putting alphabets into the memory is actually kind of fun.
You can spell out anything that you want to do, a quilt label, a holiday, a date.
You've got technically four alphabets.
Two of these are American or English lettering so we'll use those for today.
Open up, or touch your home button, arrow down to the combimode; that's where we can
combine stitches or also known as the memory.
You have options for your decorative stitches or your regular stitches, like your practical
stitches.
We'll see where the 'A' is, touch OK.
We'll use these two today so we'll go ahead and to the first one.
As you can see, you get all capital letters if we arrow down further because there's an
arrow showing us there's more.
You do get into European type letters, also numbers.
Right after the zero, the space.
That's the one where everybody asks, "Where's the space?"
You have a dash and other punctuation that will be helpful if you want to stitch those
out.
It's kind of fun.
If I want to do my name, I'm going to go ahead and go to each of the letters, touch OK.
It will start to spell it out at the top of the screen, S-A-R-A.
If I wanted to I can add a decorative stitch.
I can go back, arrowing backwards here.
I can go over to the decorative stitches and if I wanted to do, I like to sometimes add
a heart.
There's also a couple different hearts on your machine.
How about 413?
I can type it in, 4-1-3, there's a heart.
Yes it is going to come in sideways, it will stitch out properly.
Another thing we can do is we can arrow up into the letters if you forget a letter or
you need to add something.
If I wanted to add a heart at the beginning, I could move the cursor all the way over to
the side.
Make sure the dotted line is in front of your first letter, in front of the 'S' here.
Then I'll put in that 413 again, 4-1-3.
Remember type your letters in fairly quickly so you don't get 41 instead of 4-1-3.
There's my name.
If I go ahead and stitch this out, I'm going to zoom out so you can see a little bit.
Keeping in mind, the stitching will always come towards you.
We do need to return back to my sewing screen.
Arrow over to the needle and thread picture, touch OK, now it will show up.
Since I have four letters and two decorative stitches it shows me I'm on stitch one of
six.
As I stitch out, we'll go ahead and do the heart.
Again, I can push pattern end so it will stop at the end of each pattern.
I'll wait until the very end.
I'll watch the screen, S-A-R-A and when the heart comes up, I'll push pattern end and
that way it will stop at the end of it.
All right, let's show you what that is going to look like.
How fun is that?
Now, some people ask about doing capital and lower case.
Here's how I like to do it.
I'm going to go ahead and go back into home.
We're going to go back to the combimode, touch OK.
I'm going to go back to the sewing screen and, if I wanted to, I'm going to take the
'S' and leave it as the biggest letter.
Arrow down to the 'A' and then we can adjust the width.
Let's go ahead and go down to 3-1/2 or 3.7, arrow down making each of the other letters
not as tall but making them all the same height.
So 3.7, 3.8, 3.7 and then we're to the heart and that is how we're doing it.
Also too, when you push pattern end before you start sewing, it's going to do the whole
pattern one time.
If I push it again it will be two times, three times, four times, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, and back off.
I'm going to go ahead and set it for once.
When I pushed it while I was sewing it finished the pattern and then stopped on that pattern.
This one, it will take the whole sequence, sew it all the way out.
I must have had it on the 'R' up on screen when I started.
That's a good reason to push pattern begin, because otherwise you're going to get this
R-A and the heart and then it stopped.
Which was nice but we don't want that.
Push pattern begin, and now I'm back and I'm still going to do it one time.
Here is the heart, here is the 'S' so I can always see what's on the screen.
A-R, not lower case but they will significantly look smaller.
Then it will finish the heart and then I can just keep my foot on the foot control until
it stops so I don't even have to really be paying attention, which I like.
So there's the S-A-R-A with a little bit of the shorter letters, so you can adjust the
letters as you wish.
Go back to home, arrow down to the combimode, touch OK, go over to the trash can, we're
going to clear it all out.
Then if we wanted to do a bolder look to your letters, because if they are a little bit
on the small side, use the open block alphabet.
If you come in here, you still have everything you were looking for earlier.
How about I'll do S-A-R, back up to A.
We won't do a decorative stitch with this we'll just go ahead and stitch it out.
There we go, return, return, arrow over to the needle and thread, touch OK.
You'll see that these letters are much bigger, bolder, because they are a little bit more
defined with the extra stitching.
Have you ever stitched out on paper, this is kind of fun.
I didn't push pattern end so we'll stop at the S. You can stitch on paper, you can do
greeting cards, you could really have some fun by using your decorative stitches in your
memory and even spelling out.
You could do Happy Valentine's Day, you could do two thousand whatever year it is, and have
some fun.
Memory, try it out.
Give yourself a couple practice runs and I think you'll really get used to how to move
around within the memory.