The memory allows you to combine decorative stitches, alphabets, and any combination that
you can think of with your machine.
Start off by touching the "Program" button.
This will allow you to start to add stitches.
We'll start with a blank one here.
If you want to go ahead and start with something from a row, what you need to do is make sure
that you are already in that row.
For example, we want to do this little flower with the vines.
That's from row 4.
Go ahead and make sure you're on row 4, and then go ahead and select stitch number 29.
29's going to be the flower, and then the vine part, or leaf, is stitch number 31.
Just go ahead.
It's from the same row, so you can just add that stitch.
When you're ready to stitch, you can see what that's going to look like on your screen.
It's going to go ahead and stitch out.
Once you're stitching out, remember you can touch your "Stop" button and your thread cutter,
and that will lock it at the end as you start to stitch.
When you want to clear that out, when you push "Clear" ... Actually, go back to program.
To clear it out, push CLR, clear.
It'll ask you, "Do you want to delete that whole thing?"
If you want "no," arrow to the side.
"No" will highlight, and you could go ahead and leave that.
You can save this in the "My Stitches" area.
That's the one with the heart with the arrow pointing to it.
I have some of these saved already, but go ahead and arrow down.
You can pick a blank memory and touch OK, and it'll save that combination in there as
well.
If I want to clear out that combination, I can delete that so I don't have two of them
in there.
You can keep this as clean ... or not.
Let me show you how you do that again.
If we go back to "Program," let's go ahead and clear this off our screen.
Yes, this time we will.
"Yes" is highlighted, so touch OK.
With a blank screen, let's try one more decorative stitch.
This was a fun one we ran across in class the other day.
It's using a big star and then a section of the little stars twice.
First off, let's go to row 3.
Arrow up, arrow over, row 3, stitch number 51.
That's the little star, and there's two of them.
There's one below and one above.
Let's go ahead and add that in again, 51, so we have a total of four stars.
Then we're going to go to row 4.
We're going to arrow down, arrow over, row 4.
That is stitch number 47.
That's going to add our little star in there.
When we want to see what it's going to look like, you can see it on-screen.
Save it into your memory if you'd like.
Push the heart with the arrow pointing into it, pick an empty memory, and touch OK.
It'll save it right in there.
Let's go ahead and clear this off the screen.
This was a fun one.
This was a blanket stitch.
It's the heavy version of the blanket stitch.
That's from row 2.
Go ahead and touch our stitch menu button.
Arrow up to row 2.
That is stitch number 20.
I did notice that this stitch is saved in the far ... Let's see here.
If it's up, it's the far right needle position.
We're going to put that in again.
Then this time we're going to mirror image it.
As we flip it around, now it's on the far left needle position.
What we need to do is move those closer together.
When you see it stitched out, see how it's got this break in between?
That's new on this model.
We're going to go back to "Program."
Arrow over to one of these stitches.
Let's go to the last one.
Touch ALT, and this will allow us to move the needle position.
Pretty much I'm just moving it so that stitch comes closer together and touches, maybe not
too far, how about probably about minus 2.5.
Then let's see how that looks.
No, that wasn't far enough.
We'll go back to "Program," and that a little bit further.
ALT to get to the needle position, and we're going to bring that together.
Oh, yeah.
That has to come all the way and touch it.
That's right.
We'll get there.
Okay.
Let's try 0.0 and what it looks like.
Ah, there it is.
That's my favorite stitch.
I just like the way it looks.
You could actually make it wider, longer, and a little bit bolder.
If you want to save that into your memory, touch the heart, and save to "My Stitches."
I'm kind of full up because I've got four of them in here.
Now arrow down.
There will be more blank places for you to save it.
Then go ahead and touch OK.
It'll put it in that spot.
"Program" to get out of there; CLR to clear off the screen.
Touch OK to say "yes."
What we want to do next is some alphabets.
Touch the A. Right here is the two fonts.
You've got a block and a script.
These are not American alphabets, but we do have two of them.
Pick the one you want.
Touch OK.
You're going to notice you're going to get capital letters here.
If you touch the button, or function with the A, the lowercase A, and the numbers, that
will change all your letters to lowercase, and again, to numbers and symbols.
At the end of each of the grouping of items, there is what I call an "upside down staple."
That's your space and that you can spell out your words.
If you want to go ahead, you just arrow down.
I'm going to put my name in here.
It's short, Sara.
Find the letter; touch OK.
Arrow back up to the A and over here, and OK.
If I wanted to do lowercase, I can just delete that off.
Touch the A that has the capital A, lowercase A, and number 1.
Then I can put in a lowercase A. Arrow down for my R, and up for my last A. Then I can
have it saved in my memory both ways, one with the capital letters and one with a lowercase
set.
I could go ahead and keep that.
You can keep spelling.
If you wanted your first and last name [inaudible 00:06:05], you can just keep adding in.
How fun it'd be to add a quilt label and spell out those items you want to incorporate that
are important.
Also, too, you could combine both your letters and decorative stitches.
If I wanted to put a heart in front of and at the end of my name, I could have started
by adding the heart, then the letter, and then a heart at the end.
It's really fun to stitch out.
Once again, I recommend that you stitch out all of your decorative stitches, so you really
can know what type of options you might have.
Who knows what combination you come up with.