BERNINA 790 PRO Sewing Machine with Embroidery Module

From first concept, the Bernina 790 PRO was designed for sewing, quilting and embroidery, it is the complete package. Renowned for Swiss engineered precision stitch, the B 790 PRO has all the bells and whistles one would expect with a top-end model, and it does excel in all these aspects. Is it at the top of your wish list?

The Bernina 790 PRO sewing machine features the second generation of StitchPrecision technology, resulting in a significantly quieter stitching experience. Even when operating at its highest speed of 1,000 stitches per minute, the machine maintains smooth, controlled performance. From a user's perspective, the initial experience is truly striking: the machine feels powerful yet remarkably controllable, offering a silky-smooth operation and the satisfying, robust sound of a high-quality sewing machine.

Bernina B 790 PRO Key Features:

• Includes the high-end embroidery module L (STR) for a 40 cm x 21 cm design area
• Wi-Fi Connectivity with Bernina Stitchout smartphone app
• Dual feed tames hard to sew materials as well as the finest fabrics
• Jumbo bobbins with 9mm BERNINA Hook
• Stitch Designer can create your very own custom stitches and save them
• BSR 3-Mode stitch regulator with quilt basting
• With a longer stainless-steel sewing platform 10”
• 4-Point Placement with Morphing
• Customizable Quilt Designs (.bqm files)

As a sewing machine

With Stitch Designer, Shape Designer and 4-Point Design Placement, what about the basics like thread tension? Bernina 790 PRO has this sorted and archives that renowned precision Bernina stitch quality with the help of Adaptive Thread Tension, which works in unison with the Bernina Hook that holds 70% more bobbin thread, and can sew 9mm width up to 1000 stitches-per-minute.

Not forgetting the monogramming and sideways stitching, with an array of 30 LED lights to illuminate such a work area. The advantages give the user more space to sew bigger quilts or curtains, the included extension table helps support thoughts heavier items.

Sliding off the sewing table gives access to the slender stainless steel sleeve arm, which, then, can be used to sew or hem tubular items. Using the clever embroidery unit and machine capabilities, embroidery designs can be sewn using the smaller hoops, again utilising the sleeve arm to embroider on to pockets, jacket arms, or trouser legs.

The 7" 178 mm colour touchscreen not only allows designs and stitches to be viewed on screen before being sewn out, it gives a bright and clear area to edit, or customise built in stitches, and create custom embroidery designs with lettering for logos, names, slogans, using the new qwerty keyboard is faster. Function Icons are larger and easier to view for ageing eyes.

Hard to sew fabrics like organza, multiple layers, leatherette, towelling, denim are no match for the Dual Feed, the B 790 PRO feeds the material from the top and well as under the foot from below. Each fabric movement, forward, sideways or backwards 0.3 mm or 6.0 mm is optimised and precise.

You’ll love the programmable foot control, giving power and speed when needed, but is very controllable slow speed when required for difficult stitch by stitch tasks. The default heel kick foot control setting is needle up/down. But you can program that heel kick to tie-off and adjust the number of tie-off stitches you would like, cut the threads, lift the presser foot, or all of them at the same time.

Start or stop, using the foot control or the button, with a maximum speed setting option. Raise/lower presser foot, securing stitches, reverse, needle up/down, thread cutter, needle threader buttons are all available on the front panel.

The memory has two automatic stages, short term (this sewing session), and long term (after power off) memory, where you can create custom stitches or save pattern combinations. 

Its features are endless and listed further down the page, but at this point I feel the need to say, how impresses as to how quiet it is when stitching, great respect to the Swiss engineers who perfected this wonderful sewing and embroidery machine, it makes me smile every time I use it, definitely one of my favourite models. 

The sewing consultant, together with the help key, guides the user if any of the icons are unknown. The sewing consultant asks which fabric will be used, which technique you intend to sew, it will then select the right stitch and often setup stitch width, length, pressure and tension all for you.

Any sewer will love the Pinpoint Laser, to see exactly where the needle point will enter the fabric being sewn. The red laser dot will mark the start and travelling points as you sew.

Ready to quilt

Quilting capabilities are considered imperative on this high-level of sewing machine, and the Bernina 790 PRO quilting machine does not disappoint. Quilt like a pro, in fact, many professional quilters use this model to make quilts that are displayed regularly at the international festival of quilts. It gives the user customizable quilt design program, to bring the functionality of longarm quilting to the 790 PRO, you can even modify the stitches-per-inch setting.

70 exquisite quilting stitches are ready to use, they even have their own folder, so are quick to find, select and use. Some lovely hand-look stitches are also included. 

With 10-Inch space to the right of the needle, and its additional table, extends the work area enough to sew larger quilts. It has 30 LED to light up the stainless steel sleeve arm, needle and sewing foot area.

Archive effortless free-motion using the included BSR 3-mode Stitch Regulator foot, use it for straight or zigzag stitch for the very best free-hand quilting and every stitch will be precisely placed at an even space between stitches, no matter how fast or slow your moving your quilt block under this special BSR foot.

• BSR Mode 1- The machine begins stitching as soon as you press the foot control or start button. The needle moves at a constant speed, and the machine adjusts the stitch speed to match how fast you are moving the fabric. 
• BSR Mode 2 - The machine only stitches when the fabric is in motion. When you stop moving the fabric, the needle stops moving with it, allowing you to reposition your hands or pivot at corners with precision. 
• BSR Mode 3 - This mode creates extra-long basting stitches that are easy to remove later. It comes with pre-programmed basting stitch lengths, such as two or four stitches per inch.  

With embroidery module attached

High-end embroidery module “L” with Smart Drive Technology (STR) gives this model faster, smoother embroidery stitching, even at higher 1000 SPM speeds, with a neat precise stitch front and back.

Use the B 790 PRO Wi-Fi to import embroidery designs quickly, it works in unison with the free to download Bernina Stitchout App to monitor the embroidery as its being sewn, even if you’re in another room, or in the garden. The Bernina embroidery software is also compatible for direct wireless transfer of designs to the B 790 PRO. 

The thread-away function, clears any thread ends, and automatically pulls them to the underside of the embroidery. It happens automatically, but can be turned off for specialist embroidery techniques like edge-to-edge embroidery. Jump stitches are cut.

18 Embroidery fonts, with over 500 embroidery designs included and the option to import any EXP, DST, PES, PEC, JEF embroidery design, via the USB slot. Edit or add designs or text together onscreen, mirroring, rotating, scaling to customise the designs as needed. 

Basting in the hoop holds the fabric and stabliser together, you may only need to hoop the stabiliser, and lay the delicate fabric over it, and baste it directly to the stabiliser. It's a very handy feature to have for faster embroidery.

In conjunction with Pinpoint Laser to actually show the needle point location in the hoop, for embroidery design placement, 4-Point Placement will position your embroidery or quilting block design into any area within the embroidery hoop, or fix a problem of the garment not being square in the hoop.

Endless embroidery and edge to edge quilting of any size quilt, continuously sew a .bqm stippling design, over and over again using the end points and 4-point placement to align the next area to be embroidered. The 790 PRO has 76 special .bqm files and built in, and each one can be custom adjusted to give wider or closer stippling stitch length (from 6 to 24 stitches per inch), all dependent on the quilt thickness or the finished effect you require. 

Full Complement of Features:

• If we added all the features as a list, this page would have been excessively long...! Hence, we have listed its full feature list in our buying guide section.

Accessories Included:

• For Embroidery:
  SDT Embroidery Module (L)
  #26V Embroidery Foot
  Large Hoop (255x145mm)
  Medium Hoop (130x100mm)
  Small Hoop (75x50mm)
   
• 11 Presser feet are included:
  #42 Bernina Stitch Regulator (BSR)
  #1C Reverse Pattern Foot (Zig Zag)
  #1D Reverse Pattern Foot (Dual Feed)
  #2A Overlock Foot
  #3A Buttonhole Foot with Sliding Sole
  #4D Zipper Foot (Dual Feed)
  #5V Blind Hem Foot
  #8V Jeans Foot
  #20C Open Embroidery Foot
  #40C Sideways Motion Foot
   
• Straight Stitch Plate
• Adjustable Seam Guide
• Freestanding Accessory Wardrobe
• Bernina Free Hand System (FHS)
• Extendable Sewing Table
• Programmable Foot Control
• 4 x Jumbo Bobbins
• Bobbin Case
• Bernina Needles
• Spool Caps
• Bernina Oil
• Screwdriver
• Seam Ripper
• Cleaning Brush
• Canvas Dust Cover
• Instruction Manual
• Height Compensation Tool
• UK power lead