Introducing the BERNINA 990: Your gateway to elevating your Sewing, Quilting, and Embroidery experience.
Imagine a sewing machine that not only sews, quilts, and embroiders with flawless precision, but does so with captivating speed and miraculous features. Meet the BERNINA 990, the pinnacle of Swiss engineering, precision, and innovation. This new flagship sewing and embroidery machine offers an expansive 14 inches of space to the right of the needle, providing room for your most ambitious projects. With intuitive modern navigation and gestures, the B 990 makes creating easier than ever before. Unleash your creativity with 2,927 customizable stitch patterns and 879 built-in embroidery designs. Thanks to the new BERNINA Placement Scanner, integrated Camera, and BERNINA Pinpoint Laser, you can place and view designs directly on the screen with unrivaled accuracy. Stay connected with WiFi Connectivity and access the new Help Center for feature and technique information anytime, anywhere. Experience the new BERNINA 990 and create your own magic!
The BERNINA 990 Features Include:
More Space Than Ever Before
The BERNINA 990 includes a meticulously engineered extended freearm with 14 inches (356 mm) of space to the right of the needle, providing you with ample space for big, beautiful sewing, quilting and embroidery projects.
10-Inch Touch Screen and Modern User Interface
The large interactive touch screen with gesture capabilities, icons with text descriptions, and intuitive interactions on the BERNINA 990 makes sewing and embroidery easier than ever. It can be operated with touch gestures, the included touch screen pen, or an optional computer mouse.
Help Center
Access the onboard manual with search functionality, the Creative Consultant with step-by-step tutorials, or the Quick Start to get started sewing and embroidering in no time. The Help Center on the BERNINA 990 can be accessed on your personal device (tablet or smartphone) by simply scanning the QR code on screen (must be connected to WiFi) allowing you to always have information right by your side.
Placement Scanner and Camera
Scan and view the embroidery hoop and view the needle area on screen of the BERNINA 990 with the camera in both sewing and embroidery for perfect placement of stitch patterns and embroidery designs.
Automatic Needle Threader
The Automatic Needle Threader on the BERNINA 990 helps you get started with a different thread by simply pushing a button. Conveniently and quickly, every single time.
Pinpoint Laser
Enjoy pinpoint precision by seeing exactly where the needle will enter the fabric in every needle position. The BERNINA 990 Pinpoint Laser marks your start and travel points as you sew and embroider.
Customizable Stitch Altering Area
The Stitch Altering Area visualizes your sewing stitches and edits in real time. Zoom in and out, rotate the view and see the stitches magically come to life on the BERNINA 990 screen prior to sewing on your project. Activate the camera to view the needle area in the Stitch Altering Area and ensure your stitch pattern fits your needs.
Jumbo Stitch
Resize any stitch on the BERNINA 990 from 25% to 500% for unlimited creative potential.
Undo/Redo
Undo and redo steps in sewing and stitch designer. View the changes instantly on the BERNINA 990 screen.
Stitch Designer
Create your own stitches by drawing your ideas right on the BERNINA 990 touch screen. With a touch, the BERNINA 990 transforms your design into a stitch pattern or alters existing stitches as you wish.
File Manager
Save adjusted or new stitch patterns and combinations. With the new file manager on the BERNINA 990, stitch patterns can be named and saved in the Personal Folder. Create folders, move, copy and paste files to organize your stitches and embroidery designs
Placement Scanner
The BERNINA 990 makes positioning of embroidery designs easier than ever before. Scan to preview how your designs will look when stitched. Viewing the hooped fabric on the screen makes placement simple and provides a realistic preview for embroidery colors and sizing. Transfer the scanned background to the optional BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 DesignerPlus to digitize directly on your hooped project.
Customizable Lettering
Discover 24 embroidery fonts with limitless resizing on the BERNINA 990! Create embroidery lettering perfectly to fit your project with multiple lines, alignment and corrections to previously made text. Edit the stitch density and pull compensation and transform the shape and spacing to get perfect results every time.
Arrange Features
Easily align, distribute, group/ungroup and move design stitchout order all while editing your designs on the BERNINA 990. Match start and stop points of designs to create endless border and quilting designs without having to individually place multiple designs.
Pinpoint Placement with New 4-Point Placement
Perfect design placement starts with exact virtual positioning on the BERNINA 990. Pinpoint Placement gives you total control of the stitching placement of your embroidery. With the new 4-Point Placement, simply define four points on the fabric in the hoop and the design is placed proportionally or morphed to fit the created boundary.
WiFi Connectivity and BERNINA Stitchout App
WiFi allows you to transfer embroidery designs from your optional BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 DesignerPlus directly to your BERNINA 990, or the other way around. And thanks to the new BERNINA Stitchout App, the embroidery process can be monitored on your smartphone or tablet. The B 990 connects with the app allowing you to monitor the status of your embroidery stitchout from any room in your house. The app notifies you when the machine needs your direct attention, like thread color change, thread breakage or when the design is finished.
BERNINA Integrated Stitch Regulator
The new BERNINA Integrated Stitch Regulator is more than convenient when it comes to free-motion sewing and quilting on the BERNINA 990. BERNINA Stitch Regulation is now possible with all quilting applications — including Ruler Work! The built-in stitch regulation works automatically with the 5.5 mm BISR Stitch Plate with Sensor and all BERNINA quilting presser feet and accessories. Simply attach the stitch plate, and the quilting foot of your choice to achieve perfect quilting stitches with the exact same length at variable sewing speeds.
Computerized Quilting
The new customizable quilt designs bring the functionality of professional longarm quilting to your embroidery machine. Unlimited scaling possibilities, the ability to modify the stitches per inch (SPI) and enhanced quilt securing functions enable you to achieve perfect computerized quilting on your embroidery machine. Formats compatible: BQM, HQF, PAT, PLI, QLI and TAP.
4-Point Placement
Computerized quilting is easy with 4-Point Placement on the BERNINA 990. Simply define four points on the fabric in the hoop and the design is placed proportionally or can be morphed to fit the created boundary. Add margin to adjust the spacing between the edge of your quilt block and the computerized quilting for a professional finish.
Giant Hoop with 12-inches Square Embroidery Area
The new giant hoop for the BERNINA 990 is capable of stitching a full 12-inch square within the 16.1-inch x 12-inch embroidery field. Perfect for large quilt blocks! Easily hoop and re-hoop your quilt projects with the ergonomic twist lock closure and quick and easy markings on the inner hoop and template to align a 12-inch square. Effortless quilting even on the largest quilts.
