Please see the new upgraded version of this machine, the Solaris Vision BLSA3
Put your projects in an entirely new light with the Baby Lock Solaris. With the revolutionary new IQ Visionary™ Technology, you’ll see how your design looks before you stitch it out! The Solaris' built-in projector displays your stitches and embroidery patterns on fabric in vibrant full color for perfect placement every time.
Uncover the Innovative Features of the Solaris 2
Precise Embroidery Placement
While in embroidery mode, choose from three different projection backgrounds (black, grey or white) based on fabric choices to see your design clearly. The needle drop laser is displayed in a “T” pattern for an even more precise placement.
Perfect Sewing Placement
The Solaris 2 uses a variety of guideline markers and grids for perfect placement. While in sewing mode, switch between three different laser colors (red, green and white) for better visibility based on fabric choices. Single, double, angles and grid lines are ideal for piecing placement, stitch adjustment and aligning starting points and very wide stitches.
10 5/8" x 16" Hoop Size
Baby Lock’s largest hoop yet makes it possible to stitch out your biggest embroidery designs with fewer rehoopings.
10.1" Capactive Touchscreen
You’ll have total control over every single aspect of your stitches, embroidery designs, placement, colors and more on a large touchscreen with slide scrolling menus and pinch in/out zooming.
IQ Designer
Create your own designs and quilt motifs with ease. Draw directly on the screen, scan in your favorite line art or upload an existing file to the Solaris. Your art will be instantly digitized!
IQ Intutition™ Monitoring app
Keep track of your project’s progress with this convenient feature that alerts your phone when the bobbin needs to be changed, if a thread breaks, if a thread needs to be changed and when stitching is done. (Free smart phone app for download is required).
Built-in Designs and Stitches
Make every project uniquely yours with a huge variety of built-in designs, decorative stitches, decorative fills and utility stitches, including exclusive embroidery designs from Baby Lock Sewlebrities.
Auto Split of Large Quilting Border and Corner Designs
Create beautiful quilt borders and sashing with unmatched precision. Simply put in your dimensions and Solaris does the necessary measurements for you. It matches the corners and then calculates the middle for a complete frame.
End Point Setting for Sewing
Achieve perfect stitches using the built-in camera and end point sewing stickers. Simply place the sticker where you want your stitch to the end, activate the endpoint sewing feature and sew with confidence!
Camera Detecting Buttonhole Foot
Solaris’ camera automatically senses pre-set points on the buttonhole foot, providing an accurate, better sew out. The two-piece foot secures the fabric, preventing slippage.
13" to the Right of the Needle
With an unprecedented 13" to the right of the needle for an impressive 65 square inches of workspace, Solaris gives you plenty of room to comfortably work on larger projects and full-size quilts.
Needle Plate with Push Button Release
Switching out plates has never been this easy – just simply touch a button. No tools are needed! The needle plate also features a variety of new markings for better placement, alignment and accuracy.
Dual Spool Stands
This multipurpose spool stand conveniently sits in the top cover. It’s perfect for use with twin needles for decorative stitches. For embroidery projects, set up both threads at the same time and quickly change from color to color. It also holds and support larger cones for your quilting projects.
Enhanced Stadium Lighting
Eight high-powered color rendering LEDs illuminate your project so you can see every detail – including your large embroidery designs.
MACHINE ONLY WEIGHT
- 43.2 lbs
WEIGHT WITH EMBROIDERY UNIT
- 55.5 lbs
MACHINE ONLY WIDTH
- 27.2"
MACHINE ONLY DEPTH
- 12.7"
LCD SCREEN
- WXGA IPS TFT color touch screen measuring 10.1" diagonally (800 x 1280 pixels)
COLOR TOUCHSCREEN
- Shows 16,777,216 colors and displays clock and date
PROCESSING SPEED
- 3x faster than any other machine
MPEG-4 MOVIE/VIDEO PLAY FUNCTION
- Measures 6.2" diagonally and has exclusive 1GB memory video storage
IQVISIONARY PROJECTION AREA SIZE
- Projects embroidery design in a 3" x 5" area
IQVISIONARY PROJECTION TYPES
- Projects utility stitches, character decorative stitches and buttonholes
IQVISIONARY PROJECTION DUAL STYLUS
- Advance and select stitches from projection
IQVISIONARY PROJECTION ADJUSTMENTS
- Set width, length and left/right shift
IQVISIONARY PROJECTION PRECISION ALIGNMENT
- Projects the guide beam, grids and needle beam for precision alignment of stitches
IQVISIONARY PROJECTION GUIDE BEAM, GRIDS AND NEEDLE BEAM ADJUSTMENT OPTIONS
- Main and sub line; red, white and green color options; height and width position; 45, 60 and 90 degree angles; grid adjustable from 5mm to 30 mm; 4 adjustment levels on projection light
NEEDLECAM DIGITAL CAMERA
- For embroidery and sewing positioning with faster scanning
PRECISE TOUCH POSITIONING USING NEEDLECAM
- 1
CAMERA DETECTING BUTTONHOLE FOOT WITH STABILIZATION PLATE
- Creates up to 45mm buttonhole
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME FOR IMAGE SCANNING LCD SCREEN SIZE
- LCD screen size can be enlarged to 1280 x 800 pixels
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME FUNCTION
- Will automatically create an embroidery pattern from a JPEG image
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME DRAWING AREA
- 3-3/4" x 5-11/16" (96mm x 145mm)
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME SHAPES
- 90 Pre-loaded open, closed and region shapes
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME ABILITIES
- Select different line and fill colors
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME STITCH PATTERNS
- 18 Different stitch patterns including running, bean, satin, no outline, chainstitch, blanket, blindhem, candlewicking and 10 decorative stitch outlines
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME FILL PATTERNS
- 33 Different fill patterns including regular fill, no fill, stipple inside or around a shape and 30 decorative pattern fills
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME PRE-LOADED SHAPES
- Duplicate, edit and paste
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME ADJUSTMENT PROPERTIES
- Line, fill and stippling width, length and density
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME OPTIONS
- Undersewing and undo/redo
IQ DESIGNER WITH PAPER-HOLDING FRAME STAMP CREATION
- Outline stamp shape creation for Trapunto techniques
SCANNING MODES
- 2: Fine for illustrations and standard for line drawings
LIGHTING
- Enhanced stadium lighting for 13" of brighter true color LED lighting on the needle and work area with 5 settings
NUMBER OF USB TYPE A PORTS
- 2 USB 2.0 drives to connect a mouse, flash drives, hub and CD-ROM drives
SD CARD SLOT
- 1
WIRELESS WI-LAN FUNCTION DATA TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY
- 1; Requires Baby Lock Palette 11 Embroidery Software
NEEDLE THREADER TYPE
- NeverMiss Automatic Advanced Threading System
DIGITAL DUAL-FEED SYSTEM
- Yes
ADVANCED PIVOTING FEATURE
- Yes
AUTOMATIC FABRIC SENSING SYSTEM
- Yes
AUTOMATIC SENSORS
- Thread tension control; upper and lower thread sensors on/off; upper and lower thread sensors to alert when threads run out; on-screen hoop sensor recommends size of hoop
STITCHES PER MINUTE
- 1,050 sewing and embroidery spm
PRECISE TRACKING SYSTEM ON EMBROIDERY CARRIAGE
- Yes
RESUME MODE
- Yes
PROGRAMMABLE SHUTOFF CAPABILITIES
- Yes
ECO POWER MODE
- Yes
BUILT-IN DESIGNS
- 740, including 355 Baby Lock exclusives, 35 Sewlebrity designs, 15 buttonhole embroidery designs in 3 sizes (45 total), 15 buttonhole embroidery frame designs, 240 large decorative stitch designs and 10 quilting border patterns
BUILT-IN FONTS
- 31 styles
MAXIMUM EMBROIDERY SIZE/AREA
- Up to 10-5/8" x 16" (272mm x 408mm) hoop with a new locking mechanism and silicone side-grips for slip-free fabric support
EMBROIDERY PATTERN MEMORY
- 9MB
FRAME COMBINATIONS
- 140
STITCH READABILITY CAPACITY
- Up to 850,000 stitches per design
COLOR VISUALIZER WITH PINNABLE COLOR SELECTIONS
- 1
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY CAPABILITIES
- Design placement using drag/drop and slide/scroll/pinch; enhanced realistic preview; and needle positioning grid and hoop selections
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN SCREEN BRIGHTNESS SETTINGS
- 5 settings
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN ENLARGEMENT CAPABILITIES
- Design previews 200% and needle position image 200%
EMBROIDERY SPEED
- Up to 1,050 spm
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN ESTIMATED EMBROIDERY TIME DISPLAY AND STITCH COUNT
- 1
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY PROGRESS BAR
- 1
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY STITCH SIMULATOR
- 1
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY NEEDLE ADVANCEMENT
- 1, 10, 100 or 1,000 stitch increments
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY MEASUREMENTS DISPLAY
- Inches or metrics
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY COLOR SEPARATION
- 1
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY THREAD COLOR INDICATOR
- 1
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY HOOP SIZE ON-SCREEN INDICATOR
- 1
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN LOW BOBBIN THREAD INDICATOR
- 1
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY COLOR NAMES
- 300
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY SCREEN SAVER CUSTOMIZATION
- 1
WXGA IPS TFT COLOR LCD TOUCHSCREEN EMBROIDERY THUMBNAIL IMAGE VIEWING
- 3 Viewing sizes defaulted at 150%
TRIAL CHECKPOINTS
- 9-Point
STARTING POINT KEY FOR INSTANT ALIGNMENT OF CHARACTERS OR PATTERNS
- 1
ALTERNATE BOBBIN CASE FOR PRE-WOUND BOBBINS
- 1
CUSTOMIZABLE EMBROIDERY PATTERN AND THUMBNAIL BACKGROUND COLOR OPTIONS
- 66 Options
ON-SCREEN GRID
- Yes
CUTS JUMP STITCHES
- With on/off capability
EMBROIDERY FRAME CLEARANCE SETTINGS FOR EASY BOBBIN CHANGES
- Yes
EMBROIDER WITHOUT REMOVING THE FOOT CONTROL
- Yes
COMPATIBLE-READY FOR OPTIONAL W+ NEEDLE BEAM FOOT AND MOUSE
- Yes
COMBINE DESIGNS
- On-screen
CHARACTER/TEXT ARRAY FUNCTION
- Yes
CHARACTER SPACING
- Yes
MULTI-LINE TEXT WITH JUSTIFICATION OPTIONS
- Yes
CHARACTER INSERT AND GROUP EDIT CAPABILITIES
- Yes
CHANGE FONTS ON LETTERS OR WORDS AFTER THE DESIGN IS SET
- Yes
PATTERN ROTATION
- 0.1°, 1°, 10° and 90°
ENHANCED DESIGN ENLARGEMENT AND REDUCTION
- Enlargement up to 200% and reduction down to 60%
DESIGN DUPLICATION
- Yes
MULTIPLE DESIGN SELECTION CAPABILITIES
- Yes
AUTOMATIC APPLIQUÉ
- Yes
AUTOMATIC BASTING
- Yes
ADD AUTOMATIC STIPPLING AND ECHO STITCHING AROUND EMBROIDERY DESIGNS
- Yes; set the distance, spacing and frame size
MIRROR IMAGE CAPABILITY
- Yes
CHANGE COLOR SELECTIONS WITHIN DESIGNS
- Yes
ENHANCED COLOR SORTING TO OPTIMIZE SEWING ORDER
- Yes
MONOCHROME OPTION FOR EMBROIDERY DESIGNS
- Yes
PROGRAMMABLE CUSTOM THREAD COLOR SELECTION
- Yes
BUILT-IN THREAD COLOR PALETTES FROM MAJOR BRANDS
- 14
BUILT-IN STITCHES
- 861
BUILT-IN UTILITY STITCHES
- 151
NUMBER OF ONE-STEP BUTTONHOLES
- 15
NUMBER OF FOUR-STEP BUTTONHOLES
- 1
BUILT-IN DECORATIVE STITCHES
- 527
BUILT-IN SATIN STITCHES
- 20
BUILT-IN CROSS STITCHES
- 21
BUILT-IN COMBINED UTILITY STITCHES
- 63
BUILT-IN DECORATIVE SATIN STITCHES
- 79
BUILT-IN ALPHABETS
- 4
QUILTING STITCHES
- 30
NEEDLE POSITIONS
- 57
MAXIMUM STITCH LENGTH
- 5mm
BASTING STITCH OPTIONS
- 2; regular 5mm and free-motion
MAXIMUM STITCH WIDTH
- 7mm
UTILITY STITCH EDITING CAPABILITIES
- Yes
MEMORY SETTINGS FOR UTILITY STITCHES
- 5 for each utility stitch
DECORATIVE STITCH EDITING CAPABILITIES
- Edit and combine character decorative stitches; 1MB character/decorative stitch memory; satin stitch elongation; mirror-image; back to beginning key; single and repeat model and length/width proportional linking key
SEW UTILITY AND DECORATIVE STITCHES WHILE EMBROIDERY ARM IS ATTACHED
- Yes
AUTOMATIC DROP FEED ON SCREEN
- Yes
LOCK KEY FOR UTILITY AND DECORATIVE STITCHES
- Yes
REINFORCEMENT PRIORITY SETTINGS
- Yes
LATERAL AND DIAGONAL FEEDING
- Yes
VARIABLE NEEDLE POSITION
- Yes
FULLY AUTOMATIC BUILT-IN DARNING
- Yes
TWIN NEEDLE SEWING
- Yes
WORKSPACE SIZE
- 13.1" to the right of the needle
MACHINE BED SURFACE
- Frosted
CONVENIENT PUSH BUTTON FEATURES
- Start/stop, reverse sewing, reinforcement key, needle up/down, thread cutter, automatic presser foot lift and automatic needle threading
BOBBIN LOADING TYPE
- Quick set, top-loading with sensor
BOBBIN WINDING
- Quick-set, independent winding system with 4 adjustable speed settings and 5 variable bobbin filling settings
NEEDLE PLATE
- One finger removable
KNEE LIFT
- Ergonomic, 3-position with extra-high presser foot lift (10mm automatic and 13mm manual)
NEEDLE PLATE WITH SCALE IN INCHES AND CENTIMETERS
- Yes and additional guideline markings
THREAD CUTTER
- Automatic, with on/off capability
FREE ARM
- Yes
AUTO NEEDLE UP/DOWN
- Programmable, 3-steps
VOLUME
- Adjustable with 5 settings
THREAD STAND
- Foldable king two-spool that attaches magnetically to machine lid
ACCESSORY STORAGE
- Two compartments in sewing tray and enhanced accessory storage box with 3 interchangeable trays
FOOT CONTROL
- Yes, compatible ready for optional multi-function foot control
SEWING SPEED CONTROL DOUBLES AS WIDTH CONTROL
- Yes
INSTRUCTIONS AND REFERENCE MANUAL
- Built-In
BUILT-IN OPERATIONAL GUIDE
- Yes, with up to 40 help topics and 33 built-in videos
BUILT-IN SEWING APPLICATION GUIDE
- Yes
BUILT-IN HELP MESSAGES
- Yes
EMBROIDERY STITCH COUNT SYSTEM
- Yes
CAPABILITY TO SAVE SETTINGS AND SCREEN IMAGES
- Yes
MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
- 12
WARRANTY
- 25 years limited, 10 years parts, 5 years computer circuit, 5 years electrical and 1 year labor
NUMBER OF HOOPS INCLUDED
- 4
NUMBER OF FEET INCLUDED
- 14