Husqvarna Designer 1 Instruction Manual

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Embroidery
Slide the hoop onto the embroidery arm until it 
clicks into place. Press the purple button on the 
embroidery clip to release the hoop and slide it 
toward you. 
Use the move design buttons to move the de-
sign to a different place in the hoop area. This 
is especially helpful when the fabric is hooped 
and the marked center starting position is not 
in the center of the hoop. Touch the arrows to 
move the hoop until the needle lines up with 
the mar ked starting point. An audible beep will 
advise you of the limits. If you want to get back 
to the center, touch 
.
Starting position
The numbers indicates starting position of the de-
  sign, in mm, from origin. When changed plus (+) 
indicates right and up, minus (-) down and left.
Tip: If you need to turn off your Designer I whi-
le stitching large embroidery, make notes of star-
ting position, stitch number and color number. 
Then you can continue from where you left off.
Use the check size button 
   to check the size 
and the outline area of the de sign on your fa-
bric. When the check size button has been acti-
vated, it becomes dark brown with a white ar-
row indicating the current position  
 . 
When you select an embroidery the hoop is po-
sitioned so the needle will begin at the center 
of the hoop. However, if you select a design to 
make a sequence of embroidy, the needle will 
begin where the last embroidery was fi nished.
Touch 
   to go back .
SET in Embroidery
If neccessary, for example when embroidering 
on unusual fabrics, set the thread tension in the 
   menu.
When embroidering on very thick fabrics or bat-
  ting, you can raise the height of the presser foot. 
This is to allow the foot to glide over thicker fa-
bric.
Manual adjustments of the thread tension and 
of the presser foot height are made in the 
   menu. 
						

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Adjust in Embroidery
There are many options to adjust your design. 
Always adjust fi rst, before using any of the but-
tons on the embroidery screen menus (step 
through stitches, check parameters of de sign, 
move design in hoop, etc.) and before begin-
ning to sew.
To activate Adjust menu touch 
  .
Rotate embroidery
Touch 
   to rotate the embroidery in 90 degree 
steps. See it on the color touch screen. When an 
embroidery has been rotated, the button will be 
indicated in brown 
  .
Mirror image side to side
Touch 
 
 and the leaf will fl ip side to side. The 
mirror image button will be indicated in brown.
Touch 
   to return to normal image
Size
Scale embroidery size up or down (up to 20%). 
An audible beep will advise you of the limits.
Height  
   
Use 
    
.
Width  
 
Use 
    
.
You can increase the width and height indepen-
dently to create long and thin or short and wide 
designs. When enlarging or reducing the size 
of the embroidery, experiment with dif fe rent 
weights of embroidery thread.
Exit 
   by touching  
 or by accessing the   
 or   menu.  
						

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Embroidery
View embroidery colors
The view color icon appears on the HELP menu 
  . It is grey when not active. When it is colo-
red and active, touch the icon to view the colors 
in an embroidery. You can scroll through the 
colors using 
    
. 
The menu shows color number, stitch count and 
color name. The currrent color is highlighted 
with a red frame. If the embroidery disk has co-
lor chart numbers included those will be shown 
instead of color names. 
The color menu will stay open when the 
Designer I is sewing. Close the color menu by 
touching 
  .
Embroidery features
FIX
Touch FIX in embroidery to baste an outline aro-
  und the embroidery area. This is helpful when 
embroidering on fabrics that should not be hoo-
ped tightly. The FIX function can also be used 
to baste fabric to the stabilizer. This bas ting also 
indicates placement of embroidery.
When the FIX function is active, you cannot 
step forward or backward color by color, ins-
tead FIX is shown in the thread color recom-
mendation fi eld.
If the top thread has run out or broken, you can 
step backward a few stitches by touching 
  . 
Touch 
   to step forwards stitch by stitch in the 
basting stitch. 
Cursor
When embroidering, a cursor 
   indicates the 
needle position in the embroidery. The cur-
sor follows the needle through the embroidery 
when sewing or when stepping through stitches 
or colors.
One Color Embroidery
Touch 
   ( the light goes out) to cancel the co-
lor stops if you want to sew a design in one co-
lor only. 
						

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Pop-up menus in Embroidery
Embroidery Start Up Calibration 
As the embroidery unit is connected to the mach-
ine, a Pop-up menu prompts you to slide off the 
hoop, and clear the machine area for positioning 
of the embroidery arm. Touch OK to calibrate 
the embroidery unit and to position the arm. 
This menu also reminds you to use the R foot.
Top Thread  Break
Your Designer I stops automatically if the top th-
read runs out or breaks. Rethread the top thread, 
touch OK. Touch 
   to continue.
Empty Bobbin
Your Designer I stops when the bobbin is almost 
empty. Replace the empty bobbin with a full 
one, touch OK (bobbin winding, see page 10).
Note: When changing the bobbin, touch  
 and the 
hoop will move away for easy access to the bobbin 
case. Once the bobbin is replaced, touch 
   again to 
move the hoop back to where em broi dery stopped. 
Touch 
   to resume the embroidery.
Color Change 
Your Designer I stops automatically and the top 
thread only is cut at the color change. Remove 
the spool and rethread the top with the recom-
mended color shown in the color menu of the 
color touch screen or in the Embroidery Booklet. 
Touch OK and 
   to resume embroidering.
Cut  Embroidery Top Thread Tail
Your Designer I stops automatically a few stit-
ches after you begin embroidering. Cut the 
star ting thread tail, touch OK and 
 
 to resume 
embroidering. 
Wrong hoop for embroidery
When the size of the hoop on the machine does 
not match the size displayed on the screen, your 
Designer I will not sew. Change the hoop to the 
size displayed on the screen.
Stop requested in design
Designer I stops when you are supposed to do a 
cut work, applique etc. See explanation for each 
design in the Embroidery Booklet.  
Embroidery fi nished
When your embroidery is complete a pop-up 
menu will appear. Touch OK to get back to your 
embroidery. 
						

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Embroidery
Start embroidering
1. Touch  
 to begin embroidering. The 
presser foot is lowered automatically.
2. After a few stitches a Pop-up menu will 
prompt you to cut the starting thread tail. Cut 
the thread tail. Touch 
   to resume embroi-
dering.
3. Your Designer I will stop embroidering and a 
Pop-up menu will prompt you when the top 
thread color should be changed.
4. When your embroidery is complete, your De-
signer I will stop sewing, the top and bob bin 
thread are cut automatically, and the presser 
foot is raised to the extra lift position to make 
it easy to slide off the hoop.
To move the hoop forward for 
easy cutting
When changing from one thread to another, it is 
best to cut the long ”jump” stitches that are 
created when the hoop is moving. This will 
make the thread cutting easier when the 
embroidery is fi nished.
1. Press 
 
. The hoop moves towards you.
2. Cut the threads.
3. Press 
 
 again and the hoop moves back to 
its ready po si tion.
4. Press 
 
 to resume the embroidery. 
						

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Customizing Designs
Designer I has Built-In customizing. You are 
able to combine a number of designs and/or 
lettering programs on the Color Touch Screen to 
create customized embroidery.
Customize “Teatime and fl owers”. Slide on the 
embroidery unit, see page 64. Turn on Designer 
I, and Main menu appears.
How to program ”Teatime”
Slide in the Palace Script Disk.
Touch 
  .
Touch 
  . 
Touch 
  .
There are three sizes to choose between. Select 
size 
  .
Touch 
  . The capital letter T appears on the 
top of the Color Touch Screen in the program-
ming area. The cursor line moves to the right 
ready for the next letter to be entered.
Note: If you have to correct spelling, use  
. This 
button erases your programmed letters backwards 
step by step.  
						

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Embroidery
Touch   . Now you have opened the lower-
case menu. You are able to jump between upper 
case, lower case and numbers by touching
    
  
.
Touch  
  ,  
,  
,  
,  
,  
.
Touch 
   and the letters have been pro-
  gram med.
The combination you created is now visible on 
the Color Touch Screen.
Slide out the Palace Script disk.
Now you should rotate “Teatime” to fi t in with 
the following “fl ower designs”.
Touch 
  .
Touch 
   once. 
						

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Select your design. Touch    .  
The fl ower design is now visible on the screen. 
A box around the design indicates it is selected 
and can be worked with.
If you want to use 20x20mm grid, go to SET sub 
menu 3 and touch Grid ON.
Note: Touch  
 to select a part of the customized 
design. When a part is selected, it is indicated by a 
box around it. The selected part can be moved or 
adjusted, but you can also delete it by touching 
  .
If you want to bring up a design, or a customi-
zed design from a disk memory, see page 81.
Combine the word with designs
Slide in the Designer Sampler Disk 100.
Touch 
  .
There are four menus to choose between. Touch 
  . 
						

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Embroidery
Use    to move the design to your selec-
ted position on the Color Touch Screen.
Touch 
   to select your second design.
Touch 
  . A new fl ower design is now visible 
on the screen. The box around the design indi-
cates it is selected and can be worked with. 
Touch   .
Touch 
  .
Touch 
   three times.
Touch 
  . 
						

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Use    to move the design to your selec-
ted position on the Color Touch Screen.
Save your customized design
Touch 
  . A Pop-up menu appears. Changes 
not saved! Save now? Enter No or Yes.
If you select No you are still able to sew your 
design.     
If you wish to save your design for future sewing, 
slide in a PC-formatted disk and select Yes.
Touch   .
Touch 
  .
Touch 
   once.
Touch 
  .