How to Adjust Your Stitch Density and Change to Step fill in Your BERNINA Embroidery System

[@jaineparr4773]

I beat my head against a wall several years ago, struggling with this. My towels were a fail and I wasn’t at all happy. Your video so clearly explains how to make this adjustment that I wish I had a Time Machine to help past me with those towels. If I could teleport over to you, I’d give you a big hug, jump up and down with glee, and demand that you never, ever stop teaching.

[@countrysilkwormers28]

Wow Thank you Gayle for this great info, from Australia, love your viseo's

[@sherimehl6237]

Thank you Gayle! You are so creative and are always testing the water! Could you do this same operation in V9.? I would love to see you do it.

[@BERNINAofNaperville]

Yes. Have you considered signing up for our zoom software class? www.berninaofnaperville.com/products/time-for-nine-virtual-bernina-embroidery-software-training-2024-session?_pos=2&_sid=fc156e977&_ss=r

[@jebeljewel1210]

I’m so thankful to find your post. This helps me tremendously. Would you recommend adjusting the tension when increasing/decreasing stitches? Will the machine do that automatically? And would you recommend changing needle size accordingly? TY 😊

[@BERNINAofNaperville]

@@jebeljewel1210 this feature. Is independent of needle size and tension so adjust after you do a test if necessary.

[@jeandeuel1073]

Thanks so much, Gayle! This was a very helpful video. I will certainly use this feature.

[@DianneSchnabel-lx2hp]

Can this be done with fonts that are not Bernina machine fonts? I tried a test on “non machine” fonts but nothing changed. Maybe I’m missing something? Love your videos!

[@BERNINAofNaperville]

This works on the pre-loaded fonts that are on the machine

[@Faloola]

Is it normal for the stitch density to not show what you changed it to when you go back to make more adjustments (for example, change from 100% to 125%, go and look on screen and then return to stitch density tab to make more adjustments but it shows 100%).

[@BERNINAofNaperville]

Once you change the stitch density, it calculates it and when you go back, it is at 100% of that recalculated size. So if you change the stitch density of the altered design, then adjust stitch density again, it will be either way less dense or more dense.

[@Faloola]

@@BERNINAofNapervilleThank you so much for this video and for this answer! Much appreciated :)

[@vickihoard1487]

Very good information. Also thank you lots for the video of how to upgrade my B880 plus. It worked wonderful. Vicki Hoard

[@janjones9558]

Can we download font for our machine please

[@BERNINAofNaperville]

Fonts can’t be downloaded. What’s loaded on your machine is it. If you want more fonts you can purchase but each letter is a different embroidery file. The new BERNINA v9 software has keyboard mapping capabilities and we are offering a live Zoom class on this topic. See link here: www.berninaofnaperville.com/collections/bernina-owners-classes/products/bernina-embroidery-software-zoom-keyboard-mapping-for-fonts

[@jilliedillie]

What does step fill even mean? I googled it and Google doesn’t know either! (The link in the last comment does not work.)

[@BERNINAofNaperville]

In machine embroidery, there are several types of stitches. Step fill means that the needle makes several penetration points to get from A to B. Whilst a satin stitch just goes from A to B without penetration points in between. This video may be helpful to you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5enfHiIi8irbqcsi=HUmtAtdcT-SZVcfE Not sure what link you are referring to in your comment.

[@jillycox3743]

Thank you really useful. Lots to experiment with.

[@esperansaloughran693]

Very ingenius!

[@PeggySue-RL]

That was great. Thank you

[@cathj8568]

Way over my head- need definitions of stitches at least

[@BERNINAofNaperville]

I've been thinking about how to respond to your comment. So, we made a video a while back called "dissecting an embroidery design", this may help you understand: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fDKERV