To select stitches you will use a couple different buttons here.
You have your basic
stitches right here on the keypad.
If you want to zigzag, all you have to do is select stitch number 5.
For a straight stitch, stitch number 1.
When you turn on the machine you are setup for a straight stitch.
A couple things on this screen, you have a woven, medium fabric, or depending on which
fabric you have selected, let's make sure that you are on the B setting, down in the
sewing advisor.
We'll go into that a little bit further, but this will get us all on the same page.
As you pick a different stitch along here it will show you we're in row 1, stitch 2.
Row 1, stitch 3, and so forth, so as we go through here you can always see which stitch
number that you have selected.
Eventually you get to the stitches where you want to go up here for selecting.
Notice right here, these are indicating stitches 1 through 9, and 0 for the keypad, but when
you want to go into the rows, see this picture here?
This is your stitch menu button.
Get used to using it because a lot of people go, "Well, how do I get to those stitches?"
All they have to do is look up here.
That stitch menu button will pull up row 1, which are the utility stitches, arrow to the
side, row 2 are the quilting stitches.
I always know the quilting stitch because look the very first stitch is a quarter inch
stitch.
It actually moves the needle to the quarter inch needle position, so you can use the standard
foot and it works out perfectly.
To arrow again, row 3, our decorative stitches, and then row 4, also are decorative stitches,
so if you want to stitch from row 3, we'll just arrow back, we're on row 3, and then
if we want stitch number 20, for example, we're going to touch the keypad and go 2,
0.
You have to do that fairly quickly, because if you just do 2 and 0, you actually get 0.
You get a buttonhole, which is what it thought you wanted.
Just make sure that you are pushing the buttons fairly quickly.
If you still are in row 3 and you now need another stitch, say 31, you can just push
31.
You don't have to go to this stitch menu button.
If you're here and you want to go back to row 1, and pick stitch number 16, for example,
1, 6, you can see that you have selected that correct stitch by it telling you row 1, stitch
number 16.
We also can adjust any of these stitches we have selected by length and by width.
Plus would make it longer, and notice that when we start to change these settings the
number goes from a regular number to a highlighted number.
If it's highlighted that means you have changed off the default setting.
To get back to the default setting you can just select a different stitch and then come
back to this stitch, or if you just reselect, like I'm on stitch number 16, if I just reselect
stitch number 16 it will clear it out.
You don't have to go back, back, back and try to find where the default setting is,
just reselect this stitch.
Turning off the machine will also make the machine go back to the default setting.
If you just want to go back to stitch 1, touch stitch 1.
That's as easy as it is to get around your machine.
Remember the basic keypad, and then your stitch menu button is the one that will take you
to be able to change from row 1, 2, 3 or 4.
If we want something in row 4, how about stitch 13?
Stitch 1, 3 quickly, there's the stitch and it's ready to sew.
It will tell you which foot to put on.
The needle according to the fabric you've selected.
This picture indicates that you want stabilizer underneath for this decorative stitch as well.
We'll start getting into the other functions and things you can do with these great stitches
throughout your machine.
For right now I need to get back to a straight stitch.
All we have to do, touch stitch number 1.