Working as both an embroidery and a sewing machine, Altair 2 is packed with power and technology allowing your creative side to take control. With IQ Technology®, you can seamlessly 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.
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Machine Features:
Knee Lifter: Keep both hands available while quilting; the Altair 2 has a presser foot knee lifter. The knee lifter allows you to raise and lower the presser foot with your knee, giving you more control of your fabric. Start and stop your sewing without ever taking your eyes or hands off your project
Push Button Features: Keep both hands available while quilting; the Altair 2 has a presser foot knee lifter. The knee lifter allows you to raise and lower the presser foot with your knee, giving you more control of your fabric. Start and stop your sewing without ever taking your eyes or hands off your project
IQ Intuition Monitoring App: Keep track of your project’s progress with this convenient feature that alerts your phone when the bobbin needs to be changed, if a thread breaks, if a thread needs to be changed and when stitching is done
2 Point Positioning: Use the 2-point positioning function, with needle beam, to preview the position of your embroidery design. Then, adjust the position and angle for precise alignment. Your embroidery will be perfectly placed every time
Large Workspace: Easily sew larger projects on the Altair with the 11.25″ workspace to the right of the needle. The Altair can easily tackle quilts and large, bulky items
9.5″ x 14″ Embroidery Field: The Altair allows you to embroider oversized designs with less re-hooping with its large 9-1/2″ by 14″ embroidery field and capability to accommodate 700,000 stitches in a single hooping. Included with the machine are four hoops: 9.5″ x 14, 9.5″ x 9.5″, 7″ x 5″, and a 4″ x 4″
Never Miss Automatic Needle Threader: The Baby Lock Altair features Baby Lock’s NeverMiss needle threader. With all of the color changes that you’ll be doing while you’re creating stunning embroidery, it’s a feature that you definitely need. With the touch of a button, your machine effortlessly threads your needle each and every time
IQ Designer: Creating unique embroidery is easy when you’re the designer! The IQ designer feature of the Baby Lock Altair makes it easy with built-in shapes. Jump right in and soon you’ll be creating one-of-a-kind designs that can match or compliment your fabric. Choose from any of the built-in background fills, to flood an area with instand stitches. Pair it with the IQ intuition on your phone, and you can seemlessly go from photo to fabric. You’ll be amazed as how easy the process can be
IQ Inution Positioning App: Use the free IQ Intuition Positioning App to take photos of your fabrics in a special, coded hoop and transfer it wirelessly to the Altair. The image will display onscreen in crisp focus, allowing you to position your design exactly where you want it. Altair also comes with a needle beam so you can make sure your needle is positioned precisely where you want it
10.1″LCD Screen: The Altair Sewing and Embroidery is equipped with a 10.1″ LCD Touchscreen, that’s the same size as a tablet. From this screen, you can control every aspect of your project. Choose or change stitches, embroidery designs, placements, colors, and more
Top Loading Bobbin: This sewing and quilting machine features a built-in bobbin winder as well as a quick-set feature
Full Couching Alphabet: Use the Fill Couching Alphabet to stitch dimensional couched letters, characters, and designs
Staduim Lighting: Every detail on your embroidery projects will be lit up. The Stadium Lights illuminate a 10″ area around the needle
Drop Feed: The Altair 2 has a built-in lever that, when pressed, automatically lowers the feed dogs so you can quickly switch to free motion quilting
Database Transfer: Managing your embroidery designs has never been easier! Download Design Database Transfer, a completely FREE embroidery design management tool, to easily view all of your embroidery designs and transfer the designs wirelessly to your Baby Lock Altair. Easily transfer embroidery designs via USB or Wi-fi to the Altair. Transfer formats include .pes, .phc, .phx, and .dst. Organize your embroidery design library by creating new folders, moving and copying files to different folders, changing file names, or deleting files. Quickly search for an embroidery design by name, format, stitch count, size, etc. Review embroidery design info such as size, estimated sewing time, and number of colors
771 Stitches: No matter if you are sewing or quilting, you have plenty of stitch options. Choose from 771 possible stitch patterns or combine them for endless stitch combinations to save for later. Exlusive to Babylock’s best embroidery machines, the Altair allows you to sew within the embroidery field if needed. This means you can sew even when your hoop is attached
534 Embroidery Patterns: No matter if you are sewing or quilting, you have plenty of stitch options. Choose from 771 possible stitch patterns or combine them for endless stitch combinations to save for later. Exlusive to Babylock’s best embroidery machines, the Altair allows you to sew within the embroidery field if needed. This means you can sew even when your hoop is attached
Needle Beam: Remove the guesswork about where the needle will drop with the needle beam on the included embroidery foot. The bright LED pointer allows you to know the exact location of where your needle will land
Color Visualizer: Remove the guesswork about where the needle will drop with the needle beam on the included embroidery foot. The bright LED pointer allows you to know the exact location of where your needle will land
Stitch Tapering: Match your project’s sharp angles or create mitered corners with Altair 2’s Stitch Tapering. With 12 angle settings, three ending methods, and 20 decorative stitches, you can customize a variety of sewing projects
Quilt Around Embroidery: Add stippling, echo quilting, or any of the 48 decorative fill patterns from IQ Designer around a selected design. You can even adjust line spacing, distance, and frame size easily
Deselect (No Sew Setting): The no-sew setting (which specifies that a thread color will not be embroidered) can be applied to a part of the pattern with a specific color. When a pattern with the no-sew setting is saved, the deselected region setting is also saved. However, the pattern cannot be saved if no sew is applied to all thread colors
Learn It. Know It. Sew It.:First time using a sewing machine, embroidery machine, or serger? Want to hone your skills and learn new sewing techniques? Looking to create some fun projects? Baby Lock has you covered! With a variety of webinars, online classes, and instructional videos, you’ll be up to speed in no time at all. Included with the Aerial you get a free 60-day trial of their SewEd classes
Included Accessories:
Zigzag Foot “J” (on machine)
Advanced Monogramming Foot “N+”
Overcasting Foot “G”
Zipper Foot “I”
Buttonhole Foot “A”
Blind Stitch Foot “R”
Button Fitting Foot “M”
Compact Digital Dual Feed Foot
Regular Sole for Digital Dual Feed Foot
Straight Stitch Foot
Free Motion Open Toe Quilting Foot “O”
Free Motion Quilting Foot “C”
Free Motion Echo Quilting Foot “E”
Embroidery Foot “W+” with Led Pointer
1/4″ Quilting Foot with Guide
Embroidery Couching Foot “Y”
Yarn Guide for Embroidery Couching
Small Yarn Threader, Adapter, Screw
Needle Set
Twin Needle
Ball Point Needle Set
Ball Point Needle for Embroidery
10 Bobbins
Seam Ripper
Scissors
Cleaning Brush
Eyelet Punch
Small Screwdriver
Large Screwdriver
Disc-shaped Screwdriver
Multi-purpose Screwdriver
Small Spool Cap
2 Medium Spool caps
Large Spool Cap
Thread Spool Insert (mini king thread spool)
Spool Felt (on machine)
2 Spool Nets
Embroidery Needle Plate Cover
Touch Pen (stylus)
Knee Lifter
Advanced Multi-function Foot Controller
Standard Bobbin Case (green marking on the screw, on machine)
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