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Table of Contents
Section A: Embroidery Beginnings .............................................................................. 3
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 4
General Information: Your Embroidery Machine/Module .......................................... 5
4 Levels of BERNINA
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v4.0 Embroidery Software .................................................. 9
Getting Started ........................................................................................................ 10
Needles .................................................................................................................. 14
Thread .................................................................................................................... 16
Embroidery Thread ................................................................................................. 17
Stabilizers & Interfacings ........................................................................................18
Sewing & Craft Sprays ...........................................................................................19
Samples
Stitching A Motif ................................................................................................. 20
Monochrome Embroidery .................................................................................22
Customizing Thread Color ................................................................................ 24
Duplicating & Rescaling Motifs ......................................................................... 26
Proportional Resizing of Motifs ......................................................................... 28
Rotating Designs .............................................................................................. 30
Proportional Resizing & Rotation ...................................................................... 32
Stretching Designs ............................................................................................ 34
Right-to-Left Mirror Image .................................................................................36
Up-to-Down Mirror Image .................................................................................. 38
Using Embroidery Cards .................................................................................. 40
Using an Embroidery CD or USB stick ..............................................................42
Saving & Deleting Embroidery Motifs .....................................................................44
Embroidery Beginnings Shopping List .................................................................... 46
Section B: Beyond the Basics ..................................................................................... 47
General Information: Working with Alphabets & Text .............................................. 48
Selecting, Adding, & Deleting Letters ...................................................................... 49
Saving Text Designs ...............................................................................................50
Samples
Alphabet Sampler .............................................................................................52
Manipulating Alphabets ......................................................................................54
Stitch Density ....................................................................................................56
Combining Motifs .............................................................................................. 58
Combining Lettering & Motifs ............................................................................60
Rehooping .........................................................................................................62
Free-Arm Embroidery ....................................................................................... 64
Baseline Sampler .............................................................................................66
Changing Lettering Height .................................................................................68
Changing Lettering Spacing .............................................................................. 70
Mega Hoop ........................................................................................................ 72
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Portal ...............................................................................................74
Beyond the Basics Shopping List ........................................................................... 76
