Name: Baby Lock Altair Sewing & Embroidery Machine
SKU: 852183

Send your creativity into a new galaxy with the Baby Lock Altair embroidery and sewing machine. It makes realizing your sewing and embroidery projects a reality thanks to IQ Technology™ that allows you to wirelessly transfer images to your machine from your smart device using the IQ Intuition™ Positioning App for perfect design placement in the hoop or design creation in IQ™ Designer.

Embroidery Features of the Baby Lock Altair Sewing & Embroidery Machine:

Combine embroidery designs on screen
Character/text array function
Character spacing
Multi-line text with justification options
Character insert and group edit capabilities
0.1°, 1°, 10°, and 90° pattern rotation
Enhanced design enlargement (up to 200%) and reduction (down to 60%) capabilities
Design duplication
Multiple design selection capabilities
Automatic appliqué
Automatic basting
Add stippling set distance around embroidery designs
Mirror imaging
Change color selections within designs
Enhanced color sorting to optimize sewing order
Monochrome option for embroidery designs
494 Embroidery designs built-in including

200 Baby Lock exclusives
10 Floral Redwork Designs
10 Border Designs
Font Embellishments (32 total)
15 Buttonhole embroidery designs in 3 sizes (45 total)
15 Buttonhole embroidery frame designs
160 Large decorative stitch designs

140 Frame combinations
Embroiders up to 14" x 9.5" (360mm x 240mm) embroidery field
30 font styles including

Exclusive script alphabet and characters (70 total)
Large floral block alphabet (30 total)
Calligraphy alphabet and characters (81 total)
Large vine alphabet in two sizes (60 total)
Large floral alphabet in two sizes (64 total)
Monogram alphabet (30 total)

Sewing Features of the Baby Lock Altair Sewing & Embroidery Machine:

Sewing speed control
Quick-Set, top-loading bobbin with sensor
Quick-Set independent bobbin winding system with variable speed
Programmable 3-step needle up/down
Automatic thread cutter (with on/off capability)
Needle plate with scale in inches and centimeters
Free arm
Two accessory storage compartments
Larger sewing bed and workspace with 11.25" to the right of the needle
Convenient one-touch buttons for

Start/Stop
Reverse sewing
Reinforcement key
Needle up/down
Thread cutter
Automatic presser foot lift
Automatic needle threading

4 Built-in alphabets
Stitch length 0.0mm - 5.0mm
Basting stitch length of up to 30mm
Maximum Utility stitch width 7mm
Utility stitch editing capabilities
5 Memory settings for each Utility stitch
Sew Utility and Decorative stitches while embroidery arm is attached
Automatic drop feed on screen
Mirror-image
Decorative stitch editing capabilities

Edit and combine Character Decorative stitches
Character/Decorative stitch memory equaling 1MB
Satin stitch elongation

Lock key for Utility and Decorative stitches
Reinforcement priority settings
Lateral and diagonal feeding
Variable needle positions
Fully automatic built-in darning
Twin needle settings
771 Built-in stitches including

150 Utility including 15 one-step buttonhole styles and 1 four-step custom buttonhole
442 Decorative
79 Decorative satin
20 Satin
17 Cross
63 Combinable Utility stitches

Included Accessories of the Baby Lock Altair Sewing & Embroidery Machine: