Baby Lock Altair 2 Embroidery And Sewing Machine (Event Model)

KNEE LIFTER

Free up both hands for quilting tasks with the Altair 2'spresser foot knee lifter. Effortlessly raise and lower the presser foot using your knee, enhancing fabric control. Seamlessly begin and end your sewing process without diverting your attention or hands from your project.

BUTTON-BASED FUNCTIONS

Empower your crafting experience with these eight intuitive controls, allowing you to concentrate fully on your project. Seamlessly raise and lower the needle or presser foot, trim threads, reinforce stitches, and reverse your sewing, all with the simple push of a button. Customize your needle's starting position with the programmable needle up/down feature, minimizing interruptions and streamlining processes like chain piecing and appliqué. Experience enhanced efficiency as
your projects come to life more swiftly than ever before.

Utilize the two-point positioning feature alongside the needle beam to preview the placement of your embroidery design. Fine-tune both, position and angle to ensure exact alignment, resulting in flawlessly positioned embroidery with every stitch. Also eliminate uncertainty regarding needle placement with the needle beam featured on the provided embroidery foot. Illuminate your workspace with a bright LED pointer, providing precise guidance on the exact landing spot for your needle.

Effortlessly tackle sizable projects on the Altair with its expansive 11-1/4" workspace to the right of the needle. From quilts to large, bulky items, the Altair is equipped to handle them all. Experience hassle-free embroidery of oversized designs with minimal re hooping, thanks to the Altair's generous 9-1/2" by 14" embroidery field and capability to accommodate up to 700,000 stitches in a single hooping. The machine comes complete with four hoops: 9-1/2" x 14", 9-1/2" x 9-1/2", 7" x 5",and 4" x 4".

Experience the convenience of Baby Lock's NeverMiss needle threader with the Baby Lock Altair. Seamlessly switch between colors during your embroidery projects knowing that threading your needle is a breeze. Simply press a button, and your machine effortlessly threads the needle every time. This sewing and quilting machine also boasts a built-in bobbin winder and a quick-set feature for added efficiency.

Discover endless embroidery possibilities with the Altair's 534 built-in embroidery designs. Explore a diverse range of motifs, including 200 exclusive Baby Lock designs not available elsewhere. Navigate through the design library effortlessly with large thumbnails, ensuring easy selection of the perfect design for your project.

Leverage the complimentary IQ Intuition Positioning App to capture images of your fabrics within a designated, coded hoop and seamlessly transfer them wirelessly to the Altair. Witness your image displayed on the screen in clear focus, enabling precise positioning of your design with ease. Additionally, the Altair features a needle beam for ensuring precise needle placement exactly where desired.

Enhance your embroidery with stippling, echo quilting, or any of the 48 decorative fill patterns available in IQ Designer. Easily customize line spacing, distance, and frame size to achieve your desired effect.

Simplify your embroidery design management with Design Database Transfer, a user-friendly tool available for FREE. Seamlessly view and wirelessly transfer all your embroidery designs to your Baby Lock Altair with ease. Effortlessly transfer designs with a USB or Wi-Fi in formats including .pes, .phc, .phx, and .dst. Organize your design library effortlessly by creating, moving, and copying files to different folders, renaming files, or removing unwanted ones. Find specific designs quickly by searching by name, format, stitch count, size, and more. Access detailed information about each design, including size, estimated sewing time, and color count, to streamline your creative process.

• 11.25" Workspace
• 9.5" X 14" Embroidery Field
• Sews up to 1,050 SPM
• 774 Built-in stitches
• 15 one-step buttonholes
• 4 Built-in alphabets
• Lateral and diagonal feeding
• Convenient one-touch buttons
• Two accessory storage compartments
• Programmable 3-step needle up/down
• 534 Embroidery designs
• 30 Font styles
• Memory capacity approximately 10MB
• Cuts jump stitches
• Automatic basting
• Automatic sensors
• Programmable shutoff capabilities
• NeverMiss Automatic Advanced Threading System