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Bernina 540 Sewing & Embroidery Machine
Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery
At a Glance
Sewing embroidery combo
15.7" x 5.9" embroidery area
1048 built in stitches
4 built in embroidery alphabets
8.5" sewing space right of needle
On screen editing of designs
BERNINA 540 Sewing & Embroidery Machine- the perfect machine for passionate sewists
"Sailing or sewing - it's all about speed and precision." Livia Naef & Nelia Puhze, Swiss Sailors and Sewing enthusiasts
When Livia and Nelia are not sailing, they love to tap into their creativity through sewing and embroidering. Because training is hard work, they appreciate the ease-of-use of the B 540 but love the machine’s power and precision to sew on anything from fine fabrics to old sails. Experience the BERNINA 540 difference today!
Bernina 540 Sewing and Embroidery Machine (Optional Embroidery Module)
BERNINA makes sewing easy.
We know you. We get you. And we engineered our 5 Series line of machines expressly for you. It is perfectly sized, feature packed and ready to sew, quilt and embroider quieter, faster, better and with fewer stops and starts thanks to the BERNINA Hook. Interest piqued? We thought so.
What do Swedish Sailors and Sewing enthusiasts; Livia Naef & Nelia Puhze think of the B540?
When Livia and Nelia are not sailing, they love to tap into their creativity through sewing and embroidering. Because training is hard work, they appreciate the ease-of-use of the BERNINA 540 but love the machine’s power and precision to sew on anything from fine fabrics to old sails. Experience the BERNINA 540 difference today!
Main Features:
- Powerful, fast & precise sewing
- Handle big projects with ease
- Perfect for decorative stitches
- Your threads are cut automatically
- Embroidery compatible
Highlighted Features
Get a feel for this fantastic machine
The next best thing to seeing it in person. This 360-viewer shows you every stunning angle of the BERNINA 540.
Perfect tension for perfect stitches
- Precise & powerful sewing
- Just sew without any worries
- Achieve beautiful stitch results
Thanks to the Adaptive Thread Tension you get optimal thread tension for perfect stitch quality on both sides of the fabric.
More space for creative freedom
- Realize big projects with ease
- Enough space for your creations
- Embroidery module optional
The extended freearm offers 8.5" right of the needle. Therefore you will enjoy a grand sewing area for grand ideas.
Get the right pressure everytime
- Sew any material with ease
- Increase pressure for thin materials
- Reduce pressure for thick materials
Ensures that the ideal pressure is always used for the selected stitch. The basic setting can be individually adjusted.
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Ask your on-screen support
- Modern colorful touch screen
- Easy to use with simple navigation
- On-screen support when needed
The Sewing Consultant helps you to find the right settings. Adjust suggested alterations quickly with the multifunction-knobs.
Sew quieter, faster, longer, better
- Sew perfect stitches with 9 mm stitch width
- Jumbo bobbin to sew longer
- Frontload the bobbin with new thread
The BERNINA Hook keeps the stitches consistent and precise with a maximum speed of 1,000 stitches per minute.
Automatic features save time
- No manual thread cutting
- Press a button to cut your thread
- Save time for your creativity
Thanks to the automatic thread cutter your threads are cut automatically and the needle will be lifted afterwards.
- Hook system: BERNINA Hook
- Sewing space to the right of the needle: 8.5”
- Color touch screen: 4.3” / 10 cm
- Adjustable presser foot pressure
- Start/stop button (stitching without foot control)
- Maximum stitch width in mm; 9
- Embroidery Module: Optional
- Maximum Embroidery Area: 15.7" x 5.9"
- Freearm Embroidery
- On-screen Editing of Designs
Sewing and Quilting Features
- Pattern start/end function
- Stitch length maximum in mm: 6
- Maximum stitch width in mm: 9
- Programmable Securing Function
- Pattern mirroring
- Free Hand System (FHS)
- Number of stitch patterns (incl. alphabet) total: 1048
- Utility stitches total: 30
- Buttonholes (incl. eyelet) total: 14
- Automatic buttonhole length measuring system
- Automatic buttonhole
- Manual multi-step buttonhole
- Button sew-on program
- Darning programs
- Decorative stitches total: 300
- Quilting stitches total: 44
- Cross-stitch programs: 31
- Sewing alphabets: 5
- Reverse sewing
General Features
- Hook system: BERNINA Hook
- Maximum sewing speed (stitches per minute): 1000
- Sewing space to the right of the needle: 8.5”
- Color touch screen: 4.3” / 10 cm
- Drag & Drop
- LED sewing lights: 12 LED
- Multi-function knobs
- Needle positions: 11
- Sewing in each needle position
- Number of spool holders: 2
- Semi-automatic needle threader
- Adjustable presser foot pressure
- Manual thread cutter: 4
- Automatic thread cutter
- Adaptive Thread Tension
- Upper thread indicator
- BSR functionality, straight stitch and zigzag
- BERNINA foot control with back-kick function
- Create and save stitch combinations
- Memory (short-term/altered stitches)
- Memory (long-term/altered stitches)
- Start/stop button (stitching without foot control)
- Slide speed control
- Bobbin winding while sewing/embroidering
- USB interface for PC connection
- USB interface for USB data stick
- Changing stitch settings while sewing
- Needle stop up/down
- On-screen help
- Creative consultant
- Sewing tutorial
- Setup program
- Machine weight: 24.2 lb
- Machine size: 18.1″ / 7.9″ / 12.9″
Embroidery Features
- Maximum Embroidery Speed (Stitches per minute): 1000
- Embroidery Module: Optional
- Maximum Embroidery Area: 15.7" x 5.9"
- Freearm Embroidery
- On-screen Editing of Designs
- Duplicate/Add Designs
- Change Design Size Non-Proportionally
- Move, Rotate, and Mirror
- WordArt
- Drag and Drop
- Absolute Check Design Positioning
- Check Design Size
- Adjust Stitch Density
- Change Stitch Type
- Change Thread Brand
- Basting
- Color Resequence
- Stitch Design as Single/Multi-Color
- Personal Memory for Saving Embroidery Designs
- Programmable Jump Stitch Cutting
- Smart Secure
- Invisible Secure
- Centering the Embroidery Design
- Switch Unit of Measurement
- Embroidery design formats: EXP, DST, PES, PEC, JEF, SEW, PCS, XXX
- USB Interface
- View Stitch-out Time, Thread Colors, Size, Stitches
- Stitch Sequence Control
- Position Recall
Stitches
Practical Stitches
Buttonholes
Decorative Stitches
Quilt Stitches
Embroidery Designs
Included Accessories
- Soft Cover with pocket
- 4 Bobbins in the accessory, 1 bobbin in the bobbin case
- 2 Foam pads
- 3 Spool discs
- Seam ripper
- Height compensation tool
- Selection of needles
- Screwdriver red
- Brush
- Power cable
- Foot control
- Freearm Slide-on Table
- Knee lifter/Free-Hand System (FHS)
- Touchscreen Pen
- Sewing Machine Oil
- Accessories Box
- Knee lifter/Free-Hand System (FHS)
Add Optional Embroidery Module (540E)
Faster and quieter embroidery
The embroidery module turns an embroidery-capable BERNINA sewing machine into an embroidery machine, allowing reliable and breathtaking embroidery results to be achieved in the blink of an eye. All embroidery projects can be carried out comfortably using the generous embroidery area. BERNINA also offers a wide range of embroidery hoops in different shapes and sizes.
This embroidery module also makes it easy to embroider already-closed and tubular sewing projects, such as trouser legs, blouses, coat pockets and small t-shirts.
- For medium-sized BERNINA machines
- For small to large embroidery patterns
- Effortless freearm embroidery
- Large selection of BERNINA embroidery hoops
Bernina 540 Sewing & Embroidery Machine
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