Baby Lock Embroidery Professional PLUS BMP9, Instruction And Reference Manual

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Adjusting the Thread Tension ....................................................................................... 112
Adjusting the tension of the bobbin thread................................................................................................ 112
Adjusting the tension of the upper thread.................................................................................................. 113
EMBROIDERING SETTINGS 115
Basting Embroidery ...................................................................................................... 116
Creating an Appliqué Piece .......................................................................................... 117
Creating an appliqué piece ....................................................................................................................... 117
Using a frame pattern for the outline......................................................................................................... 120
Automatic Lock Stitch Setting ...................................................................................... 122
Starting/Ending Position Settings ..................................................................................123
Repeatedly sewing a pattern along a diagonal .......................................................................................... 124
Embroidering linked characters................................................................................................................. 125
Maximum Sewing Speed Setting................................................................................... 127
Setting the Machine to Stop at Color Changes ............................................................. 128
Stopping the machine at the next color change......................................................................................... 128
Specifying pause locations before embroidering ....................................................................................... 128
Temporary Needle Bar Setting ..................................................................................... 130
Uninterrupted embroidering (using a single color) .................................................................................... 131
Reserved Needle Bar Settings ....................................................................................... 132
SELECTING/EDITING/SAVING PATTERNS 135
Precautions................................................................................................................... 136
Concerning embroidery data .................................................................................................................... 136
Concerning optional embroidery cards ..................................................................................................... 138
Concerning USB media ............................................................................................................................ 139
Selecting an Embroidery Pattern ..................................................................................140
General pattern selection .......................................................................................................................... 140
Embroidery patterns .................................................................................................................................. 141
Frame patterns .......................................................................................................................................... 141
Monogram and frame designs ................................................................................................................... 142
Alphabet patterns...................................................................................................................................... 145
Floral alphabet patterns ............................................................................................................................ 148
Greek alphabet patterns ............................................................................................................................ 149
Embroidery patterns stored in the machine memory.................................................................................. 149
Embroidery cards (optional) ...................................................................................................................... 150
Computer (USB)........................................................................................................................................ 154
USB media ............................................................................................................................................... 158
Editing the Embroidery Pattern (Pattern Editing Screen) .............................................. 160
Combining patterns .................................................................................................................................. 160
Selecting the pattern to be edited .............................................................................................................. 161
Moving a pattern ...................................................................................................................................... 161
Flipping a pattern horizontally .................................................................................................................. 162
Changing the size of a pattern................................................................................................................... 162
Rotating a pattern ..................................................................................................................................... 164
Changing the text arrangement of a character ........................................................................................... 165
Changing the character spacing ................................................................................................................ 165
Separating combined character patterns ................................................................................................... 166
Trimming the threads between characters ................................................................................................. 167
Changing the thread density (only for some character and frame patterns) ................................................ 168
Specifying multi-color text ........................................................................................................................ 168
Changing the colors of the pattern ............................................................................................................ 169
Designing repeated patterns...................................................................................................................... 170
Creating a custom thread table ................................................................................................................. 174
Choosing a color from the custom thread table ......................................................................................... 177
Duplicating a pattern ................................................................................................................................ 178
Deleting a pattern ..................................................................................................................................... 178
Editing the Embroidery Pattern (Embroidering Settings Screen) .................................. 179
Rotating the entire pattern......................................................................................................................... 179
Editing a Combined Pattern.......................................................................................... 180