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Adjusting the Thread Tension ....................................................................................... 112

EMBROIDERING SETTINGS

Basting Embroidery ...................................................................................................... 116

Creating an Appliqué Piece .......................................................................................... 117

Automatic Lock Stitch Setting ...................................................................................... 122

Starting/Ending Position Settings ..................................................................................123

Maximum Sewing Speed Setting................................................................................... 127

Setting the Machine to Stop at Color Changes ............................................................. 128

Temporary Needle Bar Setting ..................................................................................... 130

Reserved Needle Bar Settings ....................................................................................... 132

SELECTING/EDITING/SAVING PATTERNS

Precautions................................................................................................................... 136

Selecting an Embroidery Pattern ..................................................................................140

Editing the Embroidery Pattern (Pattern Editing Screen) .............................................. 162

Editing the Embroidery Pattern (Embroidering Settings Screen) .................................. 181

Adjusting the tension of the bobbin thread................................................................................................ 112

Adjusting the tension of the upper thread.................................................................................................. 113

Creating an appliqué piece ....................................................................................................................... 117

Using a frame pattern for the outline......................................................................................................... 120

Repeatedly sewing a pattern along a diagonal .......................................................................................... 124

Embroidering linked characters................................................................................................................. 125

Stopping the machine at the next color change......................................................................................... 128

Specifying pause locations before embroidering ....................................................................................... 128

Uninterrupted embroidering (using a single color) .................................................................................... 131

Concerning embroidery data .................................................................................................................... 136

Concerning optional embroidery cards ..................................................................................................... 138

Concerning USB media ............................................................................................................................ 139

General pattern selection .......................................................................................................................... 140

Embroidery patterns .................................................................................................................................. 141

Frame patterns .......................................................................................................................................... 141

Monogram and frame designs ................................................................................................................... 142

Alphabet patterns...................................................................................................................................... 145

Floral alphabet patterns ............................................................................................................................ 148

Renaissance alphabet patterns .................................................................................................................. 149

Appliqué alphabet .................................................................................................................................... 150

Greek alphabet patterns ............................................................................................................................ 151

Embroidery patterns stored in the machine memory.................................................................................. 151

Embroidery cards (optional) ...................................................................................................................... 152

Computer (USB)........................................................................................................................................ 156

USB media ............................................................................................................................................... 160

Combining patterns .................................................................................................................................. 162

Selecting the pattern to be edited .............................................................................................................. 163

Moving a pattern ...................................................................................................................................... 163

Flipping a pattern horizontally .................................................................................................................. 164

Changing the size of a pattern................................................................................................................... 164

Rotating a pattern ..................................................................................................................................... 166

Changing the text arrangement of a character ........................................................................................... 167

Changing the character spacing ................................................................................................................ 167

Separating combined character patterns ................................................................................................... 168

Trimming the threads between characters ................................................................................................. 169

Changing the thread density (only for some character and frame patterns) ................................................ 170

Specifying multi-color text ........................................................................................................................ 170

Changing the colors of the pattern ............................................................................................................ 171

Designing repeated patterns...................................................................................................................... 172

Creating a custom thread table ................................................................................................................. 176

Choosing a color from the custom thread table ......................................................................................... 179

Duplicating a pattern ................................................................................................................................ 180

Deleting a pattern ..................................................................................................................................... 180

Rotating the entire pattern......................................................................................................................... 181

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