hi i'm reva with quality sewing and
vacuum and this is the new brother luminaire 2. it is a fabulous
machine. now you may be acquainted with the luminaire one
or the xp one, and this has similar features to it but
oh so much more. so just in general i'm going to go over a couple of things that
make the luminaire wonderful and then we're going to get into the really
unique things on the luminaire too. so of course we have this really nice
large size right here to the right of the needle for you to be
able to work on large projects, home dec, quilting,
all sorts of things there. and look at the height. it has lighting all the way
across so you have no shadows that you have to
worry about when you're sewing or quilting and
working on your projects. another convenience thing that i want
you to notice is that it has a matte finish so it's not glary
in your eyes, so you won't get the eye strain and
fatigue that you might have if it was a shiny surface.
now right now i do have the embroidery unit on this machine but it does have a
regular tray and works just like any other machine.
but since it's a longer chassis it has a really long free arm.
so you can get pant legs and all sorts of stuff on the machine and work on
cuffs and small projects very very easily. now
the needle plate right here doesn't need a single tool to get into
it. all you need to do is pop that and the needle plate is
released and then you just put it back in and it's ready to go. how easy. you don't have to worry about getting out a
screwdriver. it also has lots of room around the
needle to be able to thread the needle and also to change the foot or replace
the needle. so speaking about threading the needle,
watch this. this is so cool. now i have the thread through the thread guides and
up into this little piece right here. and
all i have to do is push this button and it threads the machine
for you. what could be easier? so that's absolutely fantastic. it also has a drop
in bobbin you can see how much thread is left on. just really pretty fabulous.
now in sewing it has a ton of different features in here that you're going to come to love. it has an auto pivot so when you
want to turn a corner and you stop the needle will be down and the foot
will automatically raise for you so you can move on to the next thing.
it works very much like an ipad. it has a 10.1 inch touch screen and you can just scroll and pick whatever stitch you want and it will bring it up. you can also on this machine create your own stitches from scratch.
now if you get stuck and you don't know what to do there's this little button
right here that looks like a little movie screen with a question mark in it.
you touch that and it actually has the full manual
built in. and it's updated when the machine gets updated.
and there's also an operation guide, sewing guide, so if you want to know how
to put in a zipper. and also explanations of different
stitches. but let's look at operation guide. so maybe you went on vacation or you've been doing gardening and you can't
remember how to thread the needle. all you have to go is
to basic in operation, go to threading and it will
give you a whole list of what to do for threading. but even
better, there's a movie. and these movies are
silent so you don't have to worry about not
understanding the language of the person speaking.
but it is nice and it goes nice and slow and you can pause it and then work
alongside. and this library of how to videos is ever expanding
because it's updatable when the machine is updated.
oh and speaking of update, i just updated this one
and i did it via wi-fi so, and it tells you. it says
new update available. do you want to download? and you say yes, and it walks
you through it, so you don't have to do anything, which
is really cool and since it's wi-fi, if i have an
embroidery design that i've been working with on my computer and i want to send
it through brother software it will just send it
right on over. i don't even have to worry about finding that stick
to put it on. but it does have a usb stick if you want to use that.
so we'll just close this out and go back. so isn't that, that's just really pretty
cool and very, very helpful. let's talk about something that is new.
now this is really cool. have you ever done a decorative stitch and you want to
end at a specific spot, but my goodness what do you do? where is
it? you can't, you have to kind of measure and judge.
this machine will take care of it for you. so what i have here is just a piece of fabric. and i want to show you
how we can stop at a certain spot on the fabric. so maybe you have a table runner or something that has a band and you want
to stop right at a certain spot. we can do that.
and then i'm going to also show you a really cool trick around the edge of
this. but this machine, the luminaire 2,
comes with a sheet of fabulous little stickers, and we call them a snowball
sticker, because they're just a little ball. can
you see? that cool? so on here all i need to do is put it
where i want my stitching to end i want my stitching to end right
here and i don't have to stitch straight down onto it i can be this can
be an inch and a half away from where i want to and the stitching
path so i had put it on crooked i had to
straighten it out so there it is there and i'm going to pop this
in here and i'm going to come down and i'm going to show you how this works now
i want to just choose a stitch and i there's one in here that i thought
was really pretty cool and something that i like to use a lot
and that is just the cross stitch pattern it makes a really
nice edge so let's use that so i'm going to go
ahead and put my foot down and i'm going to come over and turn on
the snowball feature it's actually the end sewing function
okay so you'll notice right here that the
illuminated projection line has found at the end
of my stitch line that i have asked for because that's where the snowball is
now if you were working on something really long like a table runner
or the top of a sheet you can actually place
this snowball at the very end and when you get there
it will automatically find it so you don't have to worry about being within a
certain distance you can use this if you're just a couple inches away or
if you're a couple of yards away it doesn't matter so i'm going to go
ahead and stitch this pattern out it's just a little cross stitch
pattern and you can notice that the machine
since this stitch goes back and forth it's actually
kind of wobbling there but that's because it's re-sensing where that line
is every time and when it gets there it's going to slow down and it's going
to stop right at that spot isn't this cool able to make
a row of stitches and exactly where you want them
to go that is pretty cool isn't it now this one is really pretty neat now
you can do this with all the decorative stitches and everything but i wanted to
show you something that is so i think this is going to be so
helpful because i think it excites me so what i'm going to do
i'm going to grab a blanket stitch or a buttonhole stitch
and then i'm going to go back and just turn on my little snowball
and now what i'm going to do is put my foot down okay so i have the fabric
position where i want it to go and i'm just going to start sewing
and now i have my end stitch marker there
and with a blanket stitch even i can stop
and then i'll be able to rotate the fabric
and keep going with my blanket stitch let me show you what that looks like
it's really pretty cool look it has ended right
at the end of the fabric and if i had kept the fabric in i could have just
rotated the fabric and kept going and gone to the next point
this is really cool you're going to be able to do all the decorative stitches
on this machine and have them end exactly where you want
them to go so that is a new feature in the luminaire 2. have you ever worked
with a decorative stitch but you don't know if it's the size that you want
this is really cool this machine has beautiful beautiful decorative stitches
built into the machine but sometimes it will well it always
tells you what the width is and the length is and
you know when it's speaking millimeters or points of
of inches you don't know what size that is so let's take a look and see
what size that is i'm going to turn on the projector right here
so now you can see the stitch exactly the size that it's going to be
if i want to change the length of the stitch i can do that here
if i want to change the width of the stitch i can do that there
so let's choose to turn make that smaller can you see that that's moving
let me go this way how about that it makes it smaller and you can see it
right on your fabric so you know that it's going to work
with what project that you're working on now if you decide that's not the right
stitch over here we have a full menu and we can
act access the full menu and scroll through
that menu and see which stitch that we want
and that's really cute and oh i like that one so if that's the stitch i want
to do i can just click set and then that will come up as the main
one i can adjust the size again the length and the width and also
depending on the fabric you're working on
now with the luminaire 2 you can actually change the projection
so you can add in the a bright background
a soft background or a no background color
so you can preview your stitches no matter what fabric color you're working
on what about when you're sewing seams
quilting or making a bag or a home deck project and you want
to make sure your seam allowance is just right
well you can follow the markings on the bed of the machine that's one way
but take a look at this we have projected
guidelines now over here i have lots of different choices one
is the color of the line i want to see and its position so maybe i want to have
it in the center needle position i can move
that so it's on there but there's also a secondary line and
that i can move away from the main line and i can have
it set at a specific measurement or even a quarter
inch a half inch 5 8 of an inch whichever seam allowance you're working
with right now i have it set at a quarter
inch so let's take a look at that so look how cool this is we have the red
line for our stitching line and the green line
for our seam allowance so if i were to sew and i was doing quilting
i would run the edge of the fabric over here
and then my needle will be stitching right there
now as you know sometimes when you're sewing
it can be very very difficult if you start going crooked
to get yourself put back on the right path but if you're looking out here if
you start to go a stray you can fix yourself before it ever gets
the needle so your stitching line will be much
more true now while you're here let's take a look at something else there's
different choices in with the lines that we have
here and the options that we have if we want to we can turn on a 90 degree
angle do you see that here so if i am lining up with a piece of
fabric i can make sure that i have it perfectly
square because maybe you're doing a pillow
or you're doing a border on a quilt you want to make sure you start out
correctly we also can do a 60 degree
so if you're working with a like a star quilt or a star block you have the
proper measurements so you just line up the edge of your fabrics with the green
and you're ready to go and you won't have to worry about being in the right
spot when you start that pattern then we also have a 45
degree and this is perfect for when you want to
do half square triangles or if you're doing
bias and you're putting strips of bias together or
a quilt binding it will actually show you
that angle so you can very very easily get that lined up where you want to go
now another very exciting one is this grid now the grid you can change
the size of this grid all the way up to over an inch in size
and this is wonderful if you're doing multiple rows
of stitches that you want to have aligned with each other
so maybe you want to do channel quilting and straight rows of quilting you can
mark one line on the fabric or align the edge of your fabric with
one of the grid lines stitch that and simply align your
stitched line with the next line that's on the
projector and then you'll have parallel rows
of stitching but you can also use this with those
decorative stitches so if i grab one of those decorative stitches and i turn on
my projector you're going to be able to see that i
can have both my projected line and
all the tools that we use to adjust that pattern
so you can make sure that your stitches are exactly where you want them to be
so let's take a look at some of the really neat features in embroidery now
of course there's beautiful designs that are built in
including disney you gotta love disney so that's only on the brother disney
machines that we have disney and this one is a disney machine so i'm
just gonna grab this cute little mickey head and there he is now i want to get
him in the hoop now if you've done
embroidery before you know that a lot of times the challenge is in the hooping
getting everything perfectly straight but
a lot of times if you've never hooped before it's a real struggle to even get
the fabric in the hoop let alone getting the design
straight so there's a really wonderful feature and this is the use of
the snowman sticker so the snowman sticker is a placement
guide for your design so his little head
tells the machine that the top of the design needs to be
facing how he is so if he's sitting straight up
the top of the design needs to go that way if it's this way it needs to go that
way so it knows and then if you take a look you see how
his belly button he's got a belly button right there that is the center of the
design so if you put the sticker right there the design will
be straight up and his tummy will be up here is the where the
center is is located but if you put it like this it's going
to move the design it's going to rotate the design
so i'm going to let's be mean i'm going to put the center of the design
down here and i'm going to put him with his head facing downward
because sometimes that's hard to do what i find the easiest thing to do
is to put the snowman sticker on my project
first and then hoop the project after i have the sticker on it okay so we have him in there and if you
take a look over here i'm just going to say
set and i'm going to go to embroidery there's a little image little button
that has a snowman on it and i'm going to touch the snowman and
then say scan and there's a built-in scanner inside
the machine and it's going to go and take a look and find that snowmancer
see it found it and it sees that it's pointing this
direction and then i've moved it so it's actually going to move the
design and face it and rotate it just the way
that i need it to now he's upside down so he's
right where we want him to go now another thing that's pretty
wonderful on this machine is there's this little icon it's a little looks
like a little to me it looks like a party hat
so if we touch that it actually turns on the projector
because this machine has a projector on board not
just a scanner but it has a projector and you can see right here that the
mickey is going to stitch exactly where we've
asked him to and i'm going to just move the projector over a little bit so you
can see now let me brighten it up so you can see
his ears look at that exactly where we wanted to go
and just as a point of clarification before you sew take that little sticker
off another thing that's really neat about
this machine is that it can create an embroidery design
for you from artwork so maybe you have some artwork or
a drawing that you like maybe you like to doodle
and you've created your own drawing or maybe
your niece or nephew or your grandkids have done that or your kids
you can take that and pop it on this plate it comes with the machine
and we're going to slip this on and we're going to touch
my design center and then i'm going to ask it
to find this design and it's going to scan it so it's now
using that scanner that's built into the machine to see
what's on the scanning plate and it's going to be able to turn
that into stitches which is really pretty cool so you can create your own
quilting patterns you can create your own full color embroidery you can do
whatever you want to earlier we did the same design and had a
beautiful little satin stitch all around him isn't it
cute but i want to show you how you can fill it with color
and as it finishes scanning isn't it quiet it's so nice and quiet so much
more so than previous machines okay so now we
have that in here and it's going to spring up the design right on the screen
and i can crop into just the part of the design i want so maybe
i only want a teapot in a whole a whole scene of kitchen stuff you know
you can just crop right around just the teapot
and then we'll have our design and we can say set and then we can go to work
with it so if i want to fill him in i can choose
a beautiful color and let's go let's go over here we can
zoom in up to 1600 percent which is bigger than i want to go
but let's go in here and take a look at his little face isn't he a cutie pie
so i'm going to fill in his beak and there i've got that done and if i click
on next not only will it have the satin stitch
outline but it also shows that i have that fill in
there something new that's in here this is really pretty cool
they've added new fills in here so not only if you have stippling
but you also have decorative fills and they've added six more fills on the
luminaire too so you now have 42 different fill styles
that you can choose from this one's really pretty fun so i'm
going to click ok and then i can just touch and fill my
area with that and then when i say next it will give me
a true preview of what that will look like in my hoop
and of course you can change the size down to 50 percent of the original size
and you can also go up to 200 of the original size
and then you can if you decide you want a different color you can actually come
in here and change it to be a different color
and it will will do that another thing that you can
do is you can do something called random shift and random
shift will give you more of a kind of a
morphed look it will look more like aggregate pebbles and it has a really
nice amount of movement oh does that look like bubbles that's really cool
but now you have more choices because not only do you have the three here
but you have the a b and c down on the bottom so you have six different levels
of adjustment that you can do on the luminaire too
you also have the choice to have it fill in heavy and bold
with a triple stitch or a single stitch another thing
that is pretty neat in embroidery if we go to embroidery we have this
really neat section right here and this is called
the quilt sashing now quilt sashing will give you
the ability to create a quilted border
around a larger piece so it doesn't have to just fit in the hoop
it can actually be a 118 by 118 inches so you can do the border on a king size
quilt in here we have the addition of five brand new quilt patterns that
you can do around your quilt project now i did say
you could do king size but you can also do smaller
so this one is much smaller and we're going to talk about him in a minute you
could do small that will fit in a hoop all the way up
to that king-sized quilt so there's five new patterns in here
but if you take a look there are now also five
two color patterns so those are really fun because then you'll do one color and
you can add pink and blue or orange and yellow whatever you want to do
so those are beautiful and then a whole new category here
with hexagons and this is really really fun so i have five that are in here now
and if when you choose one it's really really easy to use you just pick it
and say set and then it asks you what is the size from the inside
to the inside what's the size of your hexagon so you would put in the size and
it asks for just over seven inches up to this one can be
102 inches wow that's big so i'm going to
just put in let's say it was 15 inches set
how wide do you want your border to be maybe i want that to be two inches set
and of course i want to tell it what hoop i'm working it and then next
and then it will create it and it says i need 12 different
pieces to create the hexagon that i just asked for
so we put it in memory and then here it is right here you touch that and
you can bring it up and it's ready to go and then it will
walk you through creating a wonderful hexagon pattern
okay so let's see how we can stitch out our hexagon that we created
you'll probably notice that the hoop looks a little bit different than a
normal one this is an optional hoop it's a magnetic hoop and
it's really cool because you just lay your quilt down
or whatever project and then the magnets hold it tight so here's the design that
we made and when i touch that it comes up and it has all its parts and
i just choose the whole one and then that's going to bring up that
first curve on that hexagon when you say okay
it's going to give you actual instructions of how to hoop it
so i have my pattern in there very similarly only it's just not quite
straight but that's okay because the machine is
going to straighten it out so now what it wants me to do
is to move the little dot which you don't see yet
into the inner corner of my hexagon so now can you see that look at that it
has a marking line right there for me to be able to move my
design right to where it needs to go so i'm
going to move my green uh little crosshair right into that spot
and then it's going to be able to stitch out right where we want it to go
so i'm going to come in here and i want to actually
rotate him a little bit now because he's kind of crooked
and i'm going to choose the bottom and all i need to do is swing this over till
it hits that line so i'm going to move him over until
it gets lined up and then we're good to go
and then we'll end up with a perfectly stitched
hexagon so that is the same way that this one was created
started right here and it worked its way all the way around
and it knows just how to end it back at the beginning when you're done
let's look at another thing in embroidery that is brand new and it is
so so cool so let's go in here
and i will bring in a design let's bring in mickey again
so in mickey we can come in here and we can add stippling around mickey if we
want to and you can change the size of that
maybe i want to have him have more space around his little head
or maybe i want it to be bigger you can change all that
and you can also come in and tell it you want it to echo quilt and echo quilting
is just when you mimic the outline shape of a design
and you can then it goes out and out from that so
it's like ripples so you have this wonderful design there
brand new on the luminaire 2 you can now choose the decorative fills too we
didn't used to be able to have this option you'd have to go
into the design center to do it but now you have access to all
42 different fill styles to put in with your quilt pattern so you can
just choose one and there it will be and you can change
the size and you can adjust it from there how cool is that
another cool feature that you're going to like is that if we come into
embroidery let's grab a really pretty letter just for simple
sake let's just grab a b so if you have a
design it doesn't have to be the b but if you have a design that has an
outer shape obviously the b has an outer shape but
it also has holes inside of it has a positive and then and
the negative holes in there so if you want to add quilting inside
those holes that was a chore before now it's
automatic so i'm going to come over here to edit
and i'm going to touch my little flower button
and up comes my border if i want to have the border be away from
the outer edge but there's also a little option here it says inside and i'm going
to turn that on and i'm going to put it into memory now
when i go into design center and i pull up that shape go back to the
flower there's my b and say okay now when i choose a fill
style we'll just do stippling for right now
but i can do the outside but then i can also do the insides and that's
a brand new feature in the luminaire too making your sewing so much easier and so
much fun i mentioned that we had the ability to
do the decorative fills in the embroidery so this was something
that was really fun and all i did was bring up the name in
the machine and then i added the fill around it so
that was really pretty fun to do and i love quilting in
the hoop i don't know about you so let's take a look at some other
quilting and how the projector can help us there
so i have a design that i made in design center i just took the basic shape of
the triangle like i have here and filled it with a fun decorative
stitch now i can turn on the projector or touch that little party
hat and it's going to turn on the projector and then we're going to
be able to get this embroidered design exactly where we want it to go so i'm
going to pull the projector down so we can
see the edge of my fabric there and then i'm going to move down
our little triangle until it gets whoops i went too far
it gets right where we want it to go how neat is that
so now i have it placed exactly where i want it to go here let's take a look up
at the top and i'll move it over it looks like i
just need to move it to the left a little bit
and then i'm going to be good to go to sew that out so how wonderful is that
that you're going to be able to use the projection to make sure that your
designs are exactly where you want them to be
so in addition to all that fun stuff on the luminaire 2 you're going to find
that there are more embroidery designs so in my embroidery
there's a whole new category of cute little lemons up on the top but then all
these different patterns are added and there's 50 different
embroidery designs that are now added and there's one that's really cute i'm
dying to try and that is this fabulous sewing quilting border
that's going to be lots of fun but in addition in the
embroidery they've added more buttonholes and they've made them so you
can have small and extra small buttonholes as well
so this machine is pretty fantastic i think you're going to love it
so come into one of our stores check it out the luminaire 2 has
so much more to offer than what we even could have dreamed for
on our luminaire one but good news the xb1 the luminaire one
has an upgrade that's available to turn it into a machine that has all the same
features that the xp2 has and if you have a solaris it's the same
way uh there's an upgrade for the solaris one and there is a brand new
solaris two that is available there as well so
come on into our stores and take a peek i think you're going to
enjoy all the creative and time-saving
features that the luminaire or the solaris has for you
