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By Scott Goodman Scott Goodman, owner of Sewing Machine Warehouse & Kneedle.com has been servicing the sewing public since 1976.

Over the next several issues, Great Scott! will extoll the virtues, features, and benefits of all major brands of embroidery sewing machines.

How do I Love Thee…

Baby LockBaby Lock’s genetic material comes from Nick Tacony’s legacy. Founding the eponymous Tacony Corporation after WWII, he established a solid relationship with store owners as a consistent, reliable wholesale distributor of sewing machine repair parts throughout America’s heartland. With strong business connections forged during the early years, importing replacement parts from Japan, he seized the opportunity to import the first portable overlock machines to the US under the moniker Baby Lock. The perfect name for a small, or baby-sized overlock machine. Sewing machine dealers, far and wide offered this novel sewing product to their customer; the genesis of a strong and loyal distribution network.

Baby Lock partners with several designers and manufacturers to produce their product line. This choice results in consistent high quality, the broadest selection (over 60 models) and the most technologically advanced sewing, quilting and embroidery product available.

Baby Lock’s Ellisimo Gold 2 embroidery machine is the iPhone of our industry. Equipped with the built-in Needle-Cam camera, it performs magical tricks. Needle-Cam can recognize the edge of your seam; perfectly and automatically guiding fabric in the straights and curves. This magic eye can recognize a registration mark (target sticker) that you can place on your project. On command, Needle-Cam will locate position, center and rotate the design precisely where you intend it. Needle-Cam can capture a picture of your project while in the hoop. On screen, your captured picture becomes the background while embroidery designs appear in preview as if they were finished, allowing you to fine-tune your project, or better yet, make a go, no-go decision; saving a garment from an aesthetically unpleasing (disastrous) result. This same feature is found on the 10-needle Enterprise. Rocking the same high-resolution, oversized touch screen and automatically threading needles, this easy-to-operate model has allowed thousands to earn financial independence through sales of embroidered caps, shirts, onesies, towels, blankets and more.

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Embroiderers love Baby Lock’s software offerings: MasterWorks III and Palette v9 embroidery suites, Quilt LabelWorks and EmbroideryWorks that can run on a Mac or PC. Designer’s Gallery Interactives create unique designs in themes like: lace, celtic, sashiko, deco and more, and are available in 10 different flavors.

Baby Lock’s premier serger, the Ovation is unequalled in our industry. Eight threads, 87 chain, overlock and coverstitch combinations, instant air-jet looper threading, automatic thread delivery system that eliminates tension negotiations, 5” of space inside the arm for the widest cover hems and the ability to switch from overlock to coverstitch in about 60 seconds! This machine sports a presser

foot knee-control affording you great accuracy and precise fabric placement. The reliability of this machine is impeccable.

Baby Lock’s same high-quality manufacturing partner produces the Sashiko 2. This unique machine, exclusive to Baby Lock, forms a stitch that mimics fine hand-picked stitches, lending an authentic Asian flair or hand-finished look to your projects.

In the quilting realm, Baby Lock’s Crown Jewel and Tiara, hail from a high-quality designer/manufacturer right here in the US of A; Salt Lake City, Utah. These models, produced on a high-quality aluminum alloy chassis, are quite accurate and responsive. Baby Lock’s new Momentum quilt frame, maximizes the sewing field to 10 feet wide by really, really big. Quilters rave about the Unity, Crescendo and Aria. This wide-bodied trio includes a Digital Dual-Feed System. Unlike traditional even-feed or walking-foot systems that “ratchet” fabric, it utilizes a conveyor belt-like feed system that maintains continuous contact with your project and can be fine-tuned to over or under feed on challenging surfaces.

I call mine the “textile tractor”. Sized larger than a Hot Wheels car, mine is begging for flame stickers, a racing number or a competition stripe.

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Baby Lock’s partnerships with sewing experts and superstars like Eleanor Burns and Nancy Zieman lend a friendly face and vast technical experience to their brand. A shout-out to my girlfriends!

Baby Lock’s greatest strength is dealer training and support. Once each year, a pilgrimage of 600+ dealers converge in St. Louis, Missouri, for Baby Lock Tech. Echoing a past ad campaign (For the Love of Sewing/Quilting/Embroidering), adherents to the cult of Baby Lock, acknowledge their approval of new products by responding soulfully, “For the Love” when the Baby Lock brand is shouted. For good reason, Baby Lock dealers truly love the Tacony family, their employees, exceptional product and support.

You can learn more about Baby Lock, their fine family of products, and locate a dealer near you at www.babylock.com

Have you created something amazing with your Baby Lock? Or have you decorated your Digital Dual-feed system to look like a race car? Do share a photo: GreatScott@kneedle.com. I’ll post it on the Great Scott Facebook page. Best one receives an autographed copy of Great Scott! in a Box.

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