Baby Lock Aerial Sewing & Embroidery Machine (BLAE)

“Aerial takes your sewing and embroidery projects to new heights with a variety of advanced features you’ve come to expect from Baby Lock. It features IQ Technology™ that works with the machine’s “brain” to make sewing and embroidery easier”. - Baby Lock 

Technology Features

• LCD Color Touchscreen
  * Shows 260,000 colors
  * Measures 7" diagonally
  * Clock and Date
• Enhanced Stadium Lighting for brighter true color LED
lighting of 10" around the needle
• 2 USB drives: 1 (Type A) drive, 2.0 connects with a mouse, hub, flash drives and CD-ROM drives and 1 (Type B) USB direct connect to a PC
  * Access designs stored in folders when using USB Type A
• NeverMiss™ Threading System
• Automatic thread cutter
• Quick-Set, top-loading bobbin with sensor
• Quick-Set independent bobbin winding system with
variable speed
• Automatic sensors
  * Thread tension control makes tension adjustments
for accurate stitches
  * Upper and lower thread sensors to alert when
threads run out
  * Onscreen hoop sensor to recommend size of hoop
• Embroidery speed up to 1,050 spm

Embroidery Features

• Built-in embroidery design library
• 262 Embroidery designs built-in
  * 165 Baby Lock exclusive designs
  * 12 Floral vine alphabet accents and frame patterns
  * 13 Bobbin work designs
• 140 Frame combinations
• 19 Font styles including
  * Exclusive script alphabet characters
  * Large floral vine alphabet
• Embroiders up to 8" x 12" (200mm x 300mm)
embroidery field
• Memory capacity 1MB
• Reads embroidery designs with a stitch capacity of up to
500,000 stitches per design
• Color Touch Screen shows:
  * Design placement using drag and drop capabilities
  * Estimated embroidery time display and stitch count
  * Needle advancement (1, 10, 100 or 500 stitch
increments or entire thread color)
  * Measurements displayed in inches or millimeters
  * Color separation
  * Thread color indicator
  * Onscreen hoop size indicator
  * Low bobbin thread indicator
  * 300 color names
• 9-point trial check points
• Starting point key for instant alignment of characters
or patterns
• Alternate bobbin case for pre-wound bobbins
• Custom embroidery pattern and thumbnail background
colors (66 options)
• Resume feature
• On-screen grid
• Cuts jump stitches (with on/off capability)
• Stitch Count System – .SCS

Embroidery Editing Features

• Combine embroidery designs on screen
• Character/text array function
• Multi-line text function
• Character spacing
• 1°, 10°, and 90° Pattern rotation
• Design enlargement (up to 20%)
• Design reduction (up to 10%)
• Automatic basting
• Mirror imaging
• Change color selections within designs
• Color sorting on border designs
• Monochrome option for embroidery designs
• Programmable custom thread color selection

Sewing Features

• 757 Built-in stitches including
  * 138 Utility with 14 one-step buttonhole styles
  * 442 Decorative
  * 20 Satin
  * 77 Decorative satin
  * 17 Cross
  * 63 Combinable Utility
• 5 Built-in alphabets
• Maximum utility stitch width: 7mm
• Stitch length 0.0mm - 5.0mm
• Automatic Fabric Sensor System adjusts presser foot
pressure and tension to deliver perfect stitch
• Advanced Pivoting Feature
• Ergonomic hands-free presser foot lift with extra high
setting 10mm automatic and 13mm manual
• 11.25" Workspace to the right of the needle
• LED lights illuminate 10" around the needle
• Sewing speed up to 1,050 spm
• Automatic drop feed

Advanced Sewing Features

• Utility stitch editing capabilities
• Stores personal stitch settings for each Utility stitch
on machine
• Decorative stitch editing capabilities
  * Back to the Beginning key, returns to the beginning
of a decorative stitch pattern
  * Edit and combine Character/ Decorative stitches
  * 24 Memory Pockets for Character/Decorative
stitches equaling 1 MG
  * Store additional stitch combinations on your
PC using the 2 USB ports
• Mirror-image capability for stitches
• Lock key for stitches keeps current settings
• 57 Variable needle positions
• Programmable needle up/down
• Upper and lower thread sensors to alert when threads are broken
• Lateral and diagonal feeding
• Fully automatic built-in darning
• Twin needle settings

Convenience Features

• Convenient one-touch buttons for:
  * Start/Stop
  * Reverse sewing
  * Reinforcement stitch
  * Needle up/down
  * Thread cutter
  * Automatic presser foot lift
  * Auto threading
• Needle plate with scale in inches and centimeters
• Additional seam markings on bobbin cover for needle
position preference
• Free arm
• Two accessory storage compartments

Included Accessories

• Touch pen (stylus)
• USB cable
• Knee lift
• 11 Presser feet
  * Buttonhole
  * Overcasting
  * Monogramming
  * Zipper
  * Zigzag
  * Blind stitch
  * Button fitting
  * Straight stitch
  * Embroidery foot
  * 1/4" Quilting with a guide
  * Free-motion open toe quilting
• Alternate bobbin case for use with pre-wound bobbins
• Specialty bobbin case for bobbin work
• Center pin for prewound and L class bobbins
• Cord guide bobbin cover
• Straight stitch needle plate
• Soft cover for machine
• Bobbins (10)
• Spool cap assortment
• Seam ripper
• Twin needle
• Needle Pack
• Vertical Spool Pin
• Cleaning Brush
• Screwdrivers
• Embroidery needle plate cover
• Spool net
• Adapter
• Eyelet punch
• Chalk Pencil
• Foot Control
• Embroidery bobbin thread
• Embroidery hoops and grids included
  * 8" x 12" (200mm x 300mm)
  * 5" x 7" (130mm x 180mm)

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