Bernina 540 Sewing Machine

The Bernina 540 will help you tell stories with a quilt, express yourself through hand-crafted clothes or make everything more beautiful with embroidery (when you also purchase the embroidery module).

The Bernina 5 Series has been engineered line expressly to tackle all of these tasks with effortless ease. It is perfectly sized, feature packed and ready to sew, quilt and embroider* quieter, faster, better and with fewer stops and starts thanks to the BERNINA Hook. Interest piqued? We don't blame you.

• Reverse-pattern foot #1
• Reverse-pattern foot #1C
• Overlock foot #2
• Overlock foot #2A
• Buttonhole foot with slide #3A
• Zipper foot #4
• Zipper foot #4D
• Open embroidery foot #20C

• 1X Dust Cover
• 1X Accessory box
• 1X Knee lifter
• 1X Slide-on table
• 3X Spool discs
• 4X Bobbins
• 1X Height compensation tool
• 1X Selection of needles
• 1X Lubricator
• 1X Red screwdriver
• 1X Brush
• 1X Power cable
• 1X Foot control

• Hook system - BERNINA Hook
• Maximum sewing speed (stitches per minute) - 1000
• Sewing space to the right of the needle - 8.5 Inch / 215 mm
• Color touch screen - 4.3 Inch / 10 cm
• LED sewing lights - 12 LED
• Multi-function knobs
• Maximum stitch width - 9
• Maximum stitch length - 6
• Needle positions - 11
• Sewing in each needle position
• Number of spool holders - 2
• Semi-automatic needle threader
• Automatic thread cutter
• Adjustable presser foot pressure
• Manual thread cutter - 4
• Adaptive Thread Tension
• Create and save stitch combinations
• Memory (short-term/altered stitches)
• Memory (long-term/altered stitches)
• BSR enabled, straight stitch and zigzag (separate BSR foot required)
• Start/stop button (stitching without foot control)
• Slide speed control
• Upper thread indicator
• USB interface for PC connection
• Changing stitch settings while sewing
• BERNINA foot control with back-kick function
• Needle stop up/down
• Drag & Drop
• Bobbin winding while sewing/embroidering
• On-screen help
• Sewing tutorial
• Creative consultant
• Setup program
• Machine weight - 11 kg
• Machine size (mm) - 461x200x27.5
• Machine size (inch) - 18.1x7.9x12.9

• Pattern start/end function
• Programmable Securing Function
• Number of stitch patterns (incl. alphabet) total - 1048
• Utility stitches total - 30
• Buttonholes (incl. eyelet) total - 14
• Automatic buttonhole length measuring system
• Automatic buttonhole
• Manual multi-step buttonhole
• Button sew-on program
• Darning programs
• Decorative stitches total - 300
• Quilting stitches total - 44
• Cross-stitch programs - 31
• Sewing alphabets - 5

These features are only available when the embroidery module is purchased too. You can add this today (see above product bundles) or at a future date to extend the capabilities of your new sewing machine.

• Maximum embroidery area - 15.7 Inch x 5.9 Inch / 400x150 mm
• Maximum embroidery speed (stitches per minute) - 1000
• Onscreen editing of designs: positioning, mirroring, rotating, scaling, combining
• Invisible Secure
• Smart Secure
• Thread-up Command
• Programmable jump stitch cutting
• Midi hoop functionality (embroidery field: 265×165 mm, 10.5"×6.5")
• Mega hoop functionality (embroidery field: 400×150 mm, 15.7"×5.9")
• Freearm embroidery
• Personal memory for embroidery designs
• WordArt
• Color Resequence
• Sequence control
• Basting
• Position recall
• BERNINA ArtLink embroidery software (downloadable from bernina.com)
• Embroidery tutorial