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hi and welcome to the Sewing Studio I'm
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Anna and in this video I am going to
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take you through the brother inovis
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a150 I'm going to talk about its
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features and functions show you what
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comes in the Box get it threaded do some
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sewing show you its capabilities and
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then talk a bit about warranty and the
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support you get when purchasing with us
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here at The Sewing Studio now we've
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split all of those into chapters so if
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there's one particular section you're
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interested in
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feel free just to jump straight ahead to
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that so the brother inovis a150 is a
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computerized machine and it's of
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standard size meaning that it's got 6 in
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of space to the right of the needle it
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comes with a generous 150 Stitch options
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and those are all detailed on this card
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which neatly slots on the top there and
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within those stitches you'll find a mix
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of utility stitches including 10
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different styles of one step button hole
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decorative stitches blanket stitches
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satin stitches as well as some fonts
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however they are uppercase only and all
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these stitches are very simply selected
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on this touch pad here and then
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represented on the LCD screen you have
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the ability to change the length and the
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width of the Stitch and the maximum
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Stitch width on this machine is 7
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mm now it has some automatic features
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and that includes the automatic thread
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cutter and an automatic needle threader
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really really easy and I'll show you
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that when we get to the threading
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section now it comes with a foot pedal
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you don't have to use a foot pedal there
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is a start stop button but you do have
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the ability to control your speed
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regardless of if you're on the start
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stop button or using the foot pedal
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you've also got needle up needle down
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and you can set that so that the needle
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stays in your work when you stop sewing
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or it comes up whichever you prefer
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you've got a locking Stitch and your
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reverse up here is where you would
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adjust your thread
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tension it's drop in bobbing system so
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you just drop it in and it's very easy
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to thread and you can see when it's
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running out also has the quick set
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feature so there's no need to draw up
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the bobbing
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thread the presser foot has the lever
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here and that has an extra lift for any
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bulky
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items and you can drop the feed dogs for
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any free motion
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work there's also a free arm so if we
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pop that off you've got your free arm
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there and then there's storage in the
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front of the machine for all the
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different feet and accessories that come
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with the
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machine now the feet that come with it
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are the standard one that's already on
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the
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machine zipper
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foot
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overcasting blind
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hem
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monogramming one for sewing on
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buttons One Step button hole foot and a
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range of accessories with a Handy
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Storage pouch you also have your foot
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control power lead and an instruction
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manual and lastly it does come with hard
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cover now this machine weighs about 6.6
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kilos um so nice and lightweight to
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transport around and this will help keep
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it safe and also when you're storing it
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away now if you're wondering what
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happens to this when the covers on that
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just sits very neatly at the back next
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I'm going to show you how to thread the
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machine and show you its
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capabilities threading is very
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straightforward and similar to most
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sewing machines and everything is
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numbered for you so it's really quite
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hard to get it wrong so just pop your
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spool on and then a spool
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cap and then you're going to go number
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one two
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3 4
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five and number six is the last guide
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just above the needle and then for the
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needle threader you just go up in there
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and under number seven and there is a
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slight click there that you might not be
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able to hear and then watch this you
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come down with the
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lever and your needle's threaded it is
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like
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magic for the bobin you want the tail of
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thread to be to the
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left pop the cover
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off drop that in and then there's a
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little arrow that's telling you to go
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under there so in and
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around around the quick set and as I say
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there's no need to draw up the bobbing
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thread but you can if you want
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to so when you first switch the machine
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on it will default to a standard
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straight Stitch I've just got a piece of
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cotton here just in two layers so let me
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show you how you can control the speed
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so let's drop that down so at the moment
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I'm on the slowest speed
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setting and to reverse you just keep
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your finger on
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it and then come forward again and as
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you can see slow is really quite slow
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and very manageable
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Midway and then up to
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high which is really quite fast and as I
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say there's 850 stitches per
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minute and there you have your straight
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Stitch that's the
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top and then that's the
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bottom the stitches are separated out
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into individual folders and then you
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also have direct press to the most
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commonly used stitches here so I'm going
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to switch to a zigzag so I can just very
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simply press number five and I'm on a
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zigzag and because it's a computerized
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machine it's already defaulted the width
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and the length to what it deems to be a
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standard zigzag Stitch but of course you
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can change those if you want to by going
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up and down on the arrows
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there so with the zigzag Stitch I'm
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going to show you the Locking Stitch
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function so sometimes when you're
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reversing to secure the stitch on a
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zigzag it can look a bit messy um at
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either end whereas when you use the
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Locking Stitch
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button it just sews few stitches on the
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spot and then you can carry on
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sewing and then you press it again at
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the end to do a few stitches before it
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stops sewing
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and you can see how it's nice and neat
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at both ends rather than having the bulk
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of the reverse and that's secured at
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either end and that's the
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underneath so let's take a look at a
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decorative Stitch and I can also show
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you then a second feature of the Locking
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Stitch button so I'll go to the
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decorative folder and let's go for some
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bees so I'm going to start
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sewing and you'll notice I press the
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button and the Machine carried on sewing
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before it stops and that's because that
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button is also a patent
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end so the machine will carry on sewing
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forgot to cut my threads off the machine
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will carry on sewing until it gets to
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the very end of a pattern and then that
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avoids you kind of getting to the end
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and just having half a
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symbol now those bees Stitch out this
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way and what you can do is mirror image
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it so in the
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settings go to the page with mirror
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image you go down to there and put that
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on okay you may now notice that the be's
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are upside down on the screen and when I
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Stitch these out they'll be in the
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opposite
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direction
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there you go and you can see how they're
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facing the opposite
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way moving on to the fonts first I'm
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going to take the mirror Stitch
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off okay and then go to the font folder
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I don't want the B's however you could
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if you wanted to you can program a
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sequence you could have a b and then the
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word b and then another B at the end um
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that's too far too many B's but I know
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what I mean so let's just type the
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word b in there and I will show you what
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that stitches out
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like
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and there you have the word b now each
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letter is secured individually so if you
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want to take out these joining stitches
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you can and the letters will stay firmly
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in place
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and they are the full width so they're 7
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mm in height and as I say only capital
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letters but there are numbers and
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special characters and
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things before I move on to a couple of
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different types of fabric let's have a
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look at the onstep buttton hole as I say
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there's 10 different options to choose
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from depending on the type of fabric
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you're using I've still got the cotton
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so I'm just going to do a standard
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button hole which is cancel these out a
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minute hang on back in the utility and
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Stitch number 61 I've popped the button
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hole foot on and brought the sensor down
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so I'm just going to pop my fabric
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underneath and let it do its
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[Music]
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thing
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and there you have your nice neat button
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hole both top and
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underneath within the range of stitches
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there are of course stretch stitches
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which is very handy for sewing something
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like this stretch Jersey that I've got
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here so I've popped a jersey Needle on
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the machine and having worked with this
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fabric before I know that the triple
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straight Stitch is the best stitch for
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this fabric so there's a direct dial to
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it there so I can just choose the direct
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and go straight to number seven which is
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the triple straight
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Stitch
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going for a bit of full speed action
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there and you can see how lovely and
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flat that sits there's no waviness on
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there at all and you can stretch the
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fabric with that
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Stitch and the seam is nice and stretchy
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as
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well lastly let's take a look and see
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how the machine cops on the thicker side
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of fabric so I've got some denim here so
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I've popped a jeans Needle on the
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machine and I'm going to go back to a
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standard straight Stitch and because
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this is thicker than what we've been
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using I'm going to increase the Stitch
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length just
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slightly and yeah that's no problem at
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all for this machine nice neat Stitch
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underneath as well and the seam is nice
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and tight so let's double that
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over and go through four
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layers now you can hear it's working
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slightly harder which is what you'd
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expect there it is there still sewn it
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with no problem at all top and bottom no
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skip stitches and the seam is really
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secure so let's go once more and double
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it over
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again so we're on eight layers now
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excuse me so I'm going to pop the speed
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down just slightly to help it navigate
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and increase the Stitch length just a
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little bit
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higher extra press of foot lift to get
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that in
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underneath
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that genuinely is not a problem for this
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machine nice neat Stitch again that's
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the row there no skip stitches and it's
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super super
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secure so I hope that gives you an
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insight into the capabilities of the
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brother inovis
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a150 it also comes with three-year
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warranty and there's a card in the box
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that tells you all about that and don't
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forget we're here at at The Sewing
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Studio we are human beings and we are
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sewers ourselves and we are here to
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answer any questions that you may have
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so just pick up the phone contact us via
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be with you in just a few days thanks
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very much for watching and I'll see you
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again
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soon
