Tag: Bernette

Bernette B70 Reminder: Back Up Your Position

The Bernette B70 has a standby mode (Eco) for when you need to pause a job. Very convenient – especially since we’re still at the “babysit it the whole time” level of machine embroidery usage. Except — it appears that (at least for long-term standby), the system loads before the USB drive is mounted. It has cached information for the job preview, but it doesn’t actually have access to the stepper instructions. The machine essentially loses its place.

Which is fine if you know where you were when you stopped. There’s a sequence control section (#3 below)

Which allows you to use the upper and lower knobs to advance through the instructions. Upper knob is a slow advance, lower makes bigger jumps. You can also click on the magnifying glass and type in where you were. If, of course, you had backed up where you were when you paused the job!

Bernette B70 Threading v/s Tension

I got an embroidery machine – found an amazing deal because it was a “holiday” bundle with CDs of Christmas designs. It’s basically the November 1st Halloween candy of embroidery machines. As most machines do, it came with a sample from quality control testing the machine. It works. Except I could not get the thing to work! The bobbin thread was used *all* of the top pattern. The top thread was barely used. Everything I found online said you threaded it wrong. Don’t muck with tension settings, you absolutely threaded it wrong.

I couldn’t tell 100% that I didn’t thread it wrong. At the pretension section, there’s a tab that I had the thread “pinched” into — maybe that was wrong (although not pinching the thread in there and having it on the left hand side didn’t work any better). I spent hours yesterday re-threading the machine. I re-threaded it again and again today. I finally found a video on YouTube of someone who provided detailed instructions on what threaded right means. Turns out I was threading it right.

So, even though all of the advice online is to not touch the tension and just thread it right, I decided to adjust the tension. Can always move it back. It’s a digital control. I can return it to ‘4’ readily enough. Voila – my machine actually embroiders.