Great feature 5
I love how this machine won’t stitch if the foot is up. If the foot isn’t down, the stop/start button glows red and the machine beeps if you put your foot down on the foot peddle. This is a wonderful feature, especially when using the free-motion quilting foot. Here’s what each color means:
All set up at the retreat
• Green: The machine is ready to sew or is sewing.
• Red: The machine can’t sew. • Orange: The machine is winding the
bobbin thread, or the bobbin winder shaft is moved to the right side.
Great feature 6
Another super feature is that you can’t thread the NQ900 when the foot is down. A little cover, called the upper thread shutter, slides over the take up lever and prevents you from pulling the thread through. If you thread a sewing machine when the foot is down, you may not get the thread between the two tension discs and when you sew, the tension between your top and bottom threads may be completely unbalanced. I see this happen a lot when I’m teaching beginner machine quilting classes so this feature would be amazing to prevent this problem from happening!
Red glowing Start/Stop button
I really enjoyed using the NQ900 machine at the quilting retreat – and everyone thought it was so funny how excited I got when I needed to thread my needle, LOL. I spent three whole days sewing on this machine and ended up piecing a lap quilt, three baby quilts and four book covers. Make sure to keep reading as we’re going to start making a baby quilt using Northcott’s new Bundle of Love fabric line and the Brother NQ900.
The upper thread shutter is closed, preventing the sewing machine from being threaded.
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