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Bernina B990 The Ultimate Sewing & Embroidery Machine
Imagine a sewing machine that genuinely does it all. The BERNINA B990 is Swiss made and Swiss engineered, reflecting generations of precision, craftsmanship, and dependable performance. Its spacious working area, intuitive technology, and remarkable versatility make it equally suited to sewing, quilting, and embroidery.
Every detail of the BERNINA 990 is designed to support careful workmanship and creative freedom, helping transform ideas into beautifully finished projects with confidence and ease.
We are passionate about sewing and always enjoy welcoming fellow enthusiasts. Visit our Bernina Studio to meet our friendly team and experience the BERNINA 990 in person. Try our own B990 demonstration model and discover the difference its exceptional precision, speed, and innovative features can make to your sewing, quilting, and embroidery projects.
Our knowledgeable team is on hand to guide you, answer your questions, and help you explore how the BERNINA 990 can elevate your creativity with confidence and ease.
📞 Call us on 01822 810877 to learn more and book a demonstration.
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Unmatched Workspace and Convenience
Enjoy generous working space with 14" to the right of the needle, ideal for large sewing, quilting, and embroidery projects. The centrally positioned 10.1" colour touchscreen provides clear visibility and intuitive navigation. A spacious 16" x 12" embroidery area accommodates the Giant Embroidery Hoop, making it easy to create large scale, striking designs. With a maximum sewing speed of 1200 stitches per minute, you can work efficiently without compromising precision.
Innovative Features for Seamless Creativity
The automatic needle threader allows effortless threading at the touch of a button. The pinpoint laser marks the exact needle entry point, delivering outstanding accuracy for both sewing and embroidery. The BERNINA Integrated Stitch Regulator ensures perfectly even stitch lengths across all quilting techniques, including ruler work.
Advanced Stitch Customisation and Security
Choose from 2,927 stitch patterns, resize designs from 25 percent to 500 percent, or create your own stitches directly on the touchscreen. Automatic stitch plate recognition enhances safety and ensures the correct settings are applied during operation.
Professional Level Quilting and Embroidery
Customise quilt designs by adjusting stitches per inch, scaling motifs, and working with a wide range of compatible file formats. Next Generation Stitchprecision2 Technology delivers faster, quieter, and more precise stitching and embroidery.
Enhanced Efficiency for Extended Creativity
The easy access jumbo bobbin holds 70 percent more thread, allowing longer sewing and embroidery sessions with fewer interruptions. The built in Help Centre provides instant access to tutorials, the user manual, and creative guidance directly on screen, or via your tablet or smartphone.
Experience the BERNINA 990 in Person
Visit our Bernina Studio to try the BERNINA 990 demonstration model and discover how its exceptional features can elevate your creativity. Speak with our friendly team for expert advice and guidance.
Call us on 01822 810877 to learn more and book a demonstration.
Preview and position stitches and designs with exceptional accuracy using the BERNINA Placement Scanner and Camera. Scan the embroidery hoop, view the needle area directly on screen, and preview designs with selected thread colours and size before stitching. The scanned background can also be transferred to the optional BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 for further refinement.
Create large-scale embroidery with the extra-large 16" x 12" embroidery area and Giant Hoop. The ergonomic twist lock makes hooping and re-hooping straightforward, while inner markings and the template support precise alignment for a full 12" square. Ideal for large quilts and statement embroidery.
Organise stitches and embroidery designs effortlessly using the File Manager. Create and name folders, save adjusted stitches, and move, copy or paste files directly from a USB stick to the machine for efficient workflow and clear organisation.
Achieve precise placement with 2 Point and 4 Point Placement. Define reference points on the fabric, then place or proportionally fit designs with confidence. Virtual positioning allows verification of stitch points before stitching begins.
Transfer designs wirelessly using built-in WiFi connectivity. Send designs to and from optional BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 and monitor embroidery progress remotely via the BERNINA Stitchout App with real-time status updates.
The high-end Embroidery Module XL with BERNINA Smart Drive Technology delivers superb stitch quality and smooth, precise embroidery. Fully compatible with all BERNINA Embroidery Hoops, it ensures flawless results across a wide range of embroidery projects.
Supporting Your BERNINA Journey
At Quilt Direct, we are passionate about helping you make the very best start with your new BERNINA machine. Our aim is to ensure you feel confident, well-supported, and inspired from the very beginning, with guidance tailored to your needs.
One-to-One Machine Introduction
When you collect your new machine, we provide a personal one-to-one introduction, guiding you through key features and functions at a comfortable pace. If collection is not possible, a session will be arranged shortly after delivery to ensure you are fully supported as you begin.
Bernina Boot Camp
Within two years of purchasing your BERNINA, you are invited to attend our annual four-day non-residential Bernina Boot Camp at a reduced rate. These hands-on sessions are designed to help you develop confidence, deepen your understanding, and make the most of your machine’s capabilities.
Tailored Tuition for the BERNINA 990
For the BERNINA 990, we offer additional personalised tuition options to suit your circumstances.
In-studio one-to-one sessions using our B990 demonstration model
Virtual tuition via Zoom, ideal when travel is impractical or when the size of the machine makes a studio visit challenging
A Destination Worth Visiting
Our Quilt Direct Studio is set on the beautiful Dartmoor in Devon, making it a wonderful destination for a short break. While you enjoy your BERNINA experience, non-sewing companions can explore a wide range of local attractions, including walking and cycling trails, golf courses, fishing spots, and other nearby places of interest.
We are always happy to recommend activities and local holiday accommodation to help make your visit enjoyable for everyone.
Additional Support from BERNINA UK
In addition to our own support, BERNINA UK offers complimentary tuition either at their London Tuition Centre or online via Zoom, depending on your machine model.
Contact us on 01822 810877 to learn more about how we can support you throughout your BERNINA journey.
Standard accessories included with the BERNINA 990:as well as
Reverse Pattern Foot #1C: The ideal presser foot for sewing forward and reverse-feed utility and decorative stitches.
Reverse Pattern Foot #1D: The ideal presser foot for sewing forward and reverse-feed utility and decorative stitches.
Overlock Foot #2A: lets you neaten seams easily and sew high-quality hems, waistbands and overlock seams on knit fabrics.
Buttonhole Foot with Slide #3A: determines the desired buttonhole length for identical buttonholes, either via a sensor or manually.
Zipper Foot #4D: a narrow, centrally-positioned toe to stitch very close to the zipper coils, allowing it to sew the zipper on neatly.
Blindstitch Foot #5: designed for sewing blind hems on all fabric thicknesses for a barely-visible finish.
Button Sew-On Foot #18: the perfect tool for easy sewing of buttons, snap fasteners, eyelets and decorations.
Open Embroidery Foot #20C: ideal for embroidering with your sewing machine, as the indentation in the sole of the presser foot allows it to glide smoothly over dense stitches.
Embroidery Foot #26L: has a special shape that allows you to embroider with the embroidery module and to darn delicate fabrics.
Sideways-Motion Foot #40C: enables multi-directional sewing, and allows you to sew out large sideways motion stitch patterns.
Straight- and CutWork Stitch Plate with Sensor: makes it simple and effortless to sew using straight stitch and CutWork techniques, and when used in conjunction with the straight stitch foot, it enables particularly beautiful sewing results to be achieved.
5.5 mm BISR Stitch Plate with Sensor: ideal for sewing decorative stitches with a width of up to 5.5 mm and quilting with the BISR function, and is also very helpful when working with fine, soft fabrics.
Golden-yellow bobbin case: provides more tension on the bobbin thread than usual, for embroidery, free-motion sewing or free-motion quilting.
Freearm Slide-on Table: offers greater comfort thanks to an increased sewing area, without affecting free-arm function when sewing.
Seam Guide for Slide-on Table: facilitates professional-quality wide edgestitching while ensuring even distances between seams.
Knee Lifter/Free-Hand System (FHS): allows you to raise the presser foot and lower the feed dog with your knee, which is particularly recommended for appliqué or any project requiring pivoting and easily getting bulky projects under the presser foot.
Thread-lubrication Unit: improves the gliding properties of metallic or loosely twisted threads with the aid of silicone fluid.
USB Stick: enables fast and uncomplicated data exchange between the embroidery machine and the PC, with storage capacity of up to 16GB for embroidery designs and data.
Touchscreen Pen: to operate the touchscreen by gently tapping it.
Sewing Machine Oil: part of your regular care routine to ensure your machine runs smoothly.
BERNINA Accessory Box: used to store all sewing accessories, such as presser feet, needles and bobbins (supplied without contents).
Embroidery Module XL: with new BERNINA Smart Drive Technology (SDT), which elevates your embroidery experience with enhanced stitch quality and smoother and quieter movement.
Small Embroidery Hoop: a whizz at embroidering tubular items such as sleeves or trouser legs.
Medium Embroidery Hoop: a valuable tool for the accurate embroidering of medium-sized projects.
Large Oval Embroidery Hoop: suitable for both design combinations and extensive embroidery designs, with a template that makes quick work of accurately positioning the project in the hoop.
Giant Embroidery Hoop: everything you need for huge projects, with an incredibly spacious embroidery area of 30.5 x 41 cm (12" x 16.1"), an ergonomic twist lock, and clamps that perfectly fix the fabric.
New Bernina machines sold in the UK currently have a full 7-year warranty on the whole machine.
To qualify for the extended warranty, you need to register your machine purchase by returning the completed warranty card to us for signature. We will then arrange for a certificate of extended warranty to be sent to you from Bogod & Co.
To comply with the extended warranty, you will need to maintain the machine and have it serviced at the recommended intervals.
All Bernina sewing machines have electronic stitch counters*, which display an on-screen message when service is needed. However, even if a machine is used only occasionally and the stitch count for a service is not reached, it is still necessary to have the sewing machine serviced at least every 3 years.
The extended warranty applies only to normal domestic use (not educational or commercial) and to the first purchaser only.
Once we have a confirmed delivery date here at Quilt Direct, we will call to arrange collection from the Studio. However, if this is not practicable, we will contact you to make alternative arrangements.
Measurements: 67.31cm W x 24.13cm H x 42.16cm D (26.5” W x 9.5” H x 16.6” D)
Throat Space: 35.56cm (14")
Workspace Height: 12.7cm (5")
Weight: 19.6kg (43.3lb)
Hook system: Bernina Hook
BERNINA stitchprecision2 Technology
Max Speed 1200 Stitches per minute
Max Stitch Width 9mm
Max Stitch Length 6mm
Directional sewing
Jumbo stitching scalable up to 500%
10" (25cm) Centrally Located Colour Screen
Bernina Adaptive Thread Tension
Automatic Needle Threader
PinPoint Laser
Camera
BERNINA Integrated Stitch Regulator (BISR)
Bernina Stitchout App Compatible
Automatic Needle Threader
Customizable Quilt Designs (.bqm files)
4-Point Placement with Morphing
WiFi Enabled
DC Motor
90 LED sewing Lights
Hammer Mode
Embroidery Unit: Type SDT XL (Smart Design Technology)
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