Baby Lock Altair Sewing & Embroidery Machine

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:

• Touch pen (stylus)
• Hands-free knee lift
• Easy-lock accessory case for presser foot storage with
• interchangeable trays
• Soft canvas cover for machine with 3 storage pockets
• 2 Thread spool stand for larger cones
• Straight stitch needle plate
• Alternate bobbin case for use with pre-wound bobbins
• Bobbin center pin
• Bobbins (10)
• Embroidery Positioning Stickers (4-Sheets of 64)
• Lens calibration sheet for use with the positioning app
• Presser foot adaptor
• Seam ripper
• Twin needle
• Needle set
• Scissors
• Cleaning brush
• Eyelet punch
• Screwdrivers
• Spool caps (5)
• Spool felt and Spool nets (2)
• Embroidery needle plate cover
• Foot controller
• Bobbin covers: cord guide, plain and with seam guide marks
• Chalk pencil
• 14 Snap-on presser feet
• Digital Dual-Feed System Foot
• Embroidery foot with LED pointer
• General purpose zigzag
• Blind stitch
• Buttonhole
• Button fitting
• Free-motion open toe quilting
• Free-motion quilting
• Free-motion echo quilting
• Monogramming
• Overcasting
• 1/4" Quilting foot with guide
• Straight stitch foot
• Zipper
• IQ IntuitionTM Positioning embroidery hoops and grids included:
• 9.5" x 14" (240mm x 360mm)
• 9.5" x 9.5" (240mm x 240mm)
• 5" x 7" (130mm x 180mm)
• 4" x 4" (100mm x 100mm)

Warranty

• 25 years limited
• 10 years parts
• 5 years computer circuit
• 5 years electrical
• 1 year labor