Baby Lock Altair

Experience the ultimate sewing and embroidery journey with the Baby Lock Altair machine. The IQ Technology allows easy image transfer from your smart device to the machine, enabling perfect design placement with the IQ Intuition Positioning App or creating designs with IQ Designer. With a 9-1/2″ x 14″ embroidery field, 771 built-in stitches, and 494 built-in embroidery designs, you can unleash your creativity like never before. The machine also features a large 11.25″ workspace and a Needle Beam for precision sewing.

Finance for $249.97* per month for 36 months at 0% interest.
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Bigger Projects Welcome!

Experience the ultimate sewing and embroidery journey with the Baby Lock Altair machine. The IQ Technology allows easy image transfer from your smart device to the machine, enabling perfect design placement with the IQ Intuition Positioning App or creating designs with IQ Designer. With a 9-1/2″ x 14″ embroidery field, 771 built-in stitches, and 494 built-in embroidery designs, you can unleash your creativity like never before. The machine also features a large 11.25″ workspace and a Needle Beam for precision sewing.

Baby Lock Altair Features:

  • IQ Intuition Positioning
  • Design Database Transfer
  • 9-1/2″ x 14″ Embroidery Field
  • IQ Designer
  • 771 Built-In Stitches
  • 494 Built-In Embroidery Designs
  • Large 11.25″ Workspace
  • Needle Beam
Baby Lock Altair

IQ Intuition Positioning App

Use the IQ Intuition Positioning App to take a photo of your fabric in a special hoop and transfer it wirelessly to the Altair. The image will display onscreen in lifelike color and sharp resolution, allowing you to position your design exactly where you want it, how you want it, every time.

Baby Lock Altair IQ Positioning

9.5″ x 14″ Embroidery Field

Stitch bigger embroidery designs and enjoy less re-hooping with a large embroidery field.

Baby Lock Altair

IQ Designer

Create your own embroidery designs with ease. Take a photo with the IQ Intuition Positioning App and wirelessly transmit it to the Altair! Draw directly on the screen or if you’re feeling inspired by an existing art file, simply upload it to the Altair through the USB drive. Your art will be instantly digitized with the colors and fill stitches you choose.

Baby Lock Altair IQ Designer

Wireless Capability

Use your favorite embroidery design software like Palette (version 11 or higher, sold separately) to wirelessly transmit your designs from your computer to the Altair.

Baby Lock Wireless Capability

10.1″ LCD Screen

You’ll have total control over every single aspect of your stitches, embroidery designs, placement, colors and more on a large touchscreen. Comparable to many popular tablets, it features large, clear buttons and vivid colors.

Baby Lock Altair 10.1 Inch LCD Screen

Large 11.25″ workspace

With a generous 11.25″ workspace to the right of the needle, Altair gives you plenty of room to work. Those larger projects aren’t anything to worry about!

Baby Lock Altair Large Workspace

Color Visualizer

Choose from random, vivid, gradient and soft, and watch as your design is transformed in an array of color combinations. Tag your favorite color combinations, then select your favorite from the finalists.

Baby Lock Altair Color Visualizer

494 Embroidery Designs

You’ll always have something to embroider with Altair’s huge selection of built-in designs that includes 200 exclusive designs from Baby Lock. The design library features large thumbnails to make finding the right match even easier.

Baby Lock Altair 494 Embroidery Designs

771 Stitches

Altair is loaded with stitches, giving you plenty of options for every project. Best of all, you can combine them for countless stitch combinations and you can save them in memory to retrieve them at any time.

Baby Lock Altair 771 Built-in Stitches

Quick-Set Drop-In Bobbin

Simply drop your bobbin in the machine, pull your threads through the slot and let your machine do the rest.

Baby Lock Altair Quick-Set Drop-In Bobbin

Needle Beam

Know exactly where the needle will drop every time with a brilliant LED pointer on the included embroidery foot. There’s no more guesswork.

Baby Lock Altair Needle Beam

Baby Lock Altair Includes:

  • Hands-free knee lift
  • Touch pen (stylus)
  • 14 Snap-on presser feet
  • Easy-lock accessory case
  • Soft canvas cover
  • Thread spool stand (x 2)
  • Straight stitch needle plate
  • Alternate bobbin case
    (for use with pre-wound bobbins)
  • Bobbin center pin
  • Bobbins (x 10)
  • Embroidery Positioning Stickers (4-Sheets of 64)
  • Lens calibration sheet
    (for use with the positioning app)
  • Presser foot adaptor
  • Seam ripper
  • Twin needle
  • Needle set
  • Scissors
  • Cleaning brush
  • Eyelet punch
  • Screwdrivers
  • Spool caps (x 5)
  • Spool felt and Spool nets (x 2)
  • Embroidery needle plate cover
  • Foot controller
  • Chalk pencil
  • IQ Intuition Positioning embroidery hoops and grids

Baby Lock Altair Specifications:

Baby Lock Altair Specifications
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Built-in designs494
Built-in fonts30
Combine designs
Data input types.pes, .phc, .pec, .dst
Design duplication capability
Dimensions26.2″ (W) x 13.1″(H) x 12.6″(D)
Embroidery pattern memory
Maximum embroidery speed1,050 spm
Frame patterns140
Maximum embroidery size/area9.5″ x 14″
Number of USB type A ports2
Number of needles1
On-screen editing
Rotation capability
Total number of USB ports2
Weight machine only37.5 Lbs
Weight with embroidery unit47.6 Lbs

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If you love the Baby Lock Altair, you may want to check out the Brother Stellaire Innov-is XJ1 sewing and embroidery machine. It boasts many similar features, including a large embroidery area, fast sewing speeds, and built-in embroidery designs and fonts. Give it a try and take your embroidery projects to the next level!

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All Baby Lock machines are backed by a strong manufacturer’s warranty ensuring quality sewing machines, sergers, and embroidery products.

Learn more about the Baby Lock Altair and other Baby Lock sewing machines by visiting one of our locations. Baby Lock is a strongly trusted brand known and loved by the Rocky Mountain Sewing and Vacuum community.

We are Colorado’s most trusted sewing machine experts, with stores located in the Denver-metro area, including Littleton, Aurora, Arvada and Colorado Springs. Our experts are happy to walk you through the specifics of this product. Find a location near you today!