BERNINA 990 Create your Magic

The BERNINA 990 embodies Swiss engineering excellence with its spacious design, intuitive technology, and versatility. For magical sewing, quilting and embroidery.

Imagine a sewing machine that can do it all: sew, quilt, and embroider with flawless precision, captivating speed and miraculous features. A machine that will help you transform any project into a masterpiece of art and craft. That machine is the BERNINA 990, the ultimate expression of Swiss engineering, precision and innovation. The BERNINA 990 boasts a spacious design, intuitive technology, and versatility.

Create your Magic

  • NEW 14″ of space to the right of the needle
  • NEW 10″ Touch Screen with Help Center
  • NEW BERNINA Placement Scanner & Camera
  • NEW Giant Hoop (16.1″ x 12″)
  • NEW BERNINA Integrated Stitch Regulator

Overview:

  • Sewing space to the right of the needle 356 mm
  • Centrally Located Colour Touch Screen 10.1″ / 25.4 cm
  • Help Centre
  • Maximum Sewing Speed (stitches per minute) 1200
  • Maximum Stitch Width 9
  • BERNINA Integrated Stitch Regulator (BISR)
  • Embroidery Area 410×305 mm
  • Customizable Quilt Designs (.bqm files) 206

More space than ever before

  • 14″ to the right of the needle
  • Large 10″ touch screen
  • Giant embroidery with the Giant Hoop

The B 990 includes a meticulously engineered extended freearm with 14″ (356 mm) of space to the right of the needle and the Giant Embroidery Hoop (16.1″ x 12″), providing you with ample space for big, beautiful sewing, quilting and embroidery projects.

Preview your stitches and designs

  • Scan and preview your designs
  • View the needle area on screen
  • BERNINA Placement Scanner & Camera
With the new BERNINA Placement Scanner and Camera, you can scan the embroidery hoop, and view the needle area on the screen in sewing and embroidery. This allows you to precisely position your designs and stitches. Scan to preview how your designs, the chosen thread color and size will look like when stitched.
Also, you can transfer the scanned background to the optional BERNINA Embroidery Software 9.

​Thread the needle automatically​

  • Simply push a button to thread
  • Watch the machine thread the needle
  • Ready to create in seconds

The Automatic Needle Threader helps you get started with a different thread. Sewing and embroidery needles from size 70 can be automatically threaded. Get started with a different thread, faster than ever before.

Pinpoint Laser

  • Works in every needle position
  • Indicates the exact needle entry point
  • Next level precision

Enjoy pinpoint precision by seeing exactly where the needle will enter the fabric in every needle position. The BERNINA Pinpoint Laser marks your start and travel points as you sew and embroider.

Built-in Stitch Regulation

  • BERNINA Integrated Stitch Regulator
  • Use Stitch Regulation for Ruler Work
  • Works with all BERNINA quilting presser feet and accessories

Simply attach the included BERNINA 5.5 mm BISR Stitch Plate with Sensor, and the quilting foot of your choice to achieve perfect quilting stitches with the exact same length at variable sewing speeds. Automatic stitch regulation is now possible with all quilting applications including Ruler Work, thanks to the innovative BERNINA Integrated Stitch Regulator (BISR).

Automatic stitch plate recognition

  • Insert stitch plate and sew!
  • Additional security function
  • Three included stitch plates

The B 990 automatically recognizes the stitch plate once it is attached to the machine. If the stitch plate is not
compatible with the selected stitch pattern, needle or presser foot the machine will not sew as an additional
security measure.

Choose or create your matching stitch

  • Total of 2,927 stitch patterns
  • Resize any stitch from 25% to 500%
  • Design your individual stitch

With a touch, the B 990 transforms your design into a stitch pattern or alters existing stitches as you wish. Resize any stitch from 25% to 500% with the new Jumbo Stitch. Undo and redo steps in sewing and with the Stitch Designer create your own stitches by drawing your ideas right on the touch screen.

Your helpful guide on screen

  • Instruction Manual, tutorials, etc.
  • Search within the Help Center
  • Connect with your tablet or smartphone

In the Help Center, you will find frequently requested instructions and information, the user manual and Creative Consultant for various techniques. You can even connect the Help Center to your personal device (tablet or smartphone) with WiFi connectivity by simply scanning the QR code on screen.

Take your embroidery to a gigantic level

  • Extra large 16.1” x 12” embroidery area
  • Giant Hoop with ergonomic twist lock
  • Perfect for large quilts

With the new Giant Hoop and the extra large 16.1″ x 12″ embroidery field, you will be able to embroider a full 12-inch square. Thanks to the ergonomic twist lock closure, hooping and re-hooping is easy. The inner markings of the hoop and template allow you to easily align a 12-inch square.

Organize your stitches and designs

  • Create and name folders
  • Save new or adjusted stitches
  • Move, copy and paste from the USB stick

Organize your stitch patterns with the File Manager: Save, name, and store new or adjusted stitch patterns and combinations in your personal folder. Easily create, move, copy and paste files and folder to keep your stitches and embroidery designs organized with the File Manager. Name your adjusted stitch patterns and combinations and move entire folders of designs from a USB straight to your folder on the machine.

Place your designs to suit your project

  • 2-Point and 4-Point Placement
  • Place designs as they are or morph to fit
  • Perfect placement every time!

Pinpoint Placement with 2-Point and 4-Point placement options allows you to easily place designs with utmost precision. Simply define four points on the fabric with the new 4-Point Placement and morph or proportionally fit the design to the area. Use Virtual Positioning to verify exact stitch points for ultimate precision.

Customize your quilt designs

  • Modify stitches per inch
  • Unlimited scaling possibilities
  • Compatible with BQM, HQF, PAT, PLI, QLI and TAP formats

The new Customizable Quilt Designs bring the functionality of professional longarm quilting to your embroidery machine. Unlimited scaling possibilities, the ability to modify the stitches per inch (SPI) and enhanced quilt securing functions enable you to achieve perfect computerized quilting on your embroidery machine.

WiFi Connectivity and BERNINA Stitchout App

  • Design transfer from/to V9 Software
  • Monitor embroidery process via App
  • Real-time status updates remotely

Since WiFi is enabled on the BERNINA 990, you can transfer designs from your BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 (optional) directly to the machine, or vice versa. And thanks to the BERNINA Stitchout App, the embroidery process can be monitored on your smartphone remotely. The in-app notifications and real-time status updates will make your embroidery more convenient.

BERNINA stitchprecision2 Technology

  • Next generation stitch precision
  • Even faster embroidery
  • Superior stitch quality

The B 990 features the next generation BERNINA stitchprecision2 Technology that makes your sewing, quilting and embroidery experience quieter, more precise, and joyful.

New high-end Embroidery Module XL

  • Superb stitch quality
  • Compatible with BERNINA Embroidery Hoops
  • Features BERNINA Smart Drive Technology

The new high-end Embroidery Module XL with Smart Drive Technology (SDT) ensures

Sew and embroider for a longer period of time

  • Front loading, easy access Jumbo Bobbin
  • Ideally suited for decorative stitches
  • More time for your creativity

The front loading, easy access Jumbo Bobbin holds up to 70% more thread than standard bobbins, allowing you to sew and embroider longer.

  • NEW Space to the Right of the Needle: 14″ (356 mm)
  • Workspace Height: 5″ (127 mm)
  • NEW Large Centrally Located Colour Touch Screen: 10.1″ (254 mm)
  • NEW Help Center
  • NEW File Manager
  • Multi-function Knobs
  • LED Sewing Lights
  • NEW Automatic Needle Threader
  • Manual Thread Cutters
  • NEW Camera
  • NEW BERNINA Pinpoint Laser*
  • NEW WiFi
  • NEW BERNINA stitchprecision2 Technology
  • NEW Stitch Plate RecognitioN
  • BERNINA Adaptive Thread Tension
  • BERNINA Dual Feed
  • Hook System
  • BERNINA Jumbo Bobbin with 70% more Capacity
  • Bobbin Winding while Sewing/Embroidering
  • Powerful DC Motor
  • BERNINA Free Hand System (FHS)
  • Programmable BERNINA Foot Control
  • Needle Stop Up/Down
  • Thread-up Command
  • Automatic Presser Foot Lifter
  • Automatic Thread Cutter
  • Adjustable Presser Foot Pressure
  • Lower and Upper Thread Sensor
  • Tutorial
  • Quick Help
  • Maximum Sewing Speed (stitches per minute): 1,200 spm
  • Maximum Stitch Width: 9 mm
  • Maximum Stitch Length: 6 mm
  • Adjustable Needle Positions: 11
  • Presser Foot Selection
  • NEW Customisable Stitch Altering Area
  • Security Function for Needle and Stitch Plate
  • Sideways Motion
  • Tapering
  • Automatic Buttonhole / Length Measuring SysteM
  • Manual Multi-step Buttonhole
  • Adjustable Buttonhole Slit Width
  • Personal Folder
  • Temporary Altered Stitch Memory
  • History Function 24 Stitch Designer
  • Creative Consultant Sewing
  • Pattern Repeat: 1-99
  • Pattern Begin / Pattern End
  • Mirror-image function
  • Elongation
  • Basting Stitch: Stitch #21
  • Long Stitch
  • NEW Jumbo Stitch
  • Triple Stitch
  • NEW Undo/Redo in Sewing
  • Backstepping
  • NEW BERNINA Integrated Stitch Regulator (BISR)
  • BSR Foot #42 Enabled (Optional Extra)
  • NEW Adjustable minimum stitching speed in BSR/BISR 1 Mode
  • NEW Adjustment of stitch lengths as stitches per inch (SPI) in BSR/BISR
  • KickStart Function
  • Start/Stop Button (stitching without foot control)
  • Presser Foot Hover Function
  • Freearm Sewing
  • Total Number of Sewing Stitch Patterns (incl. alphabets):2,927
  • Alphabets/Monograms 16/2
  • Decorative Stitches: 957
  • Button Sew-On Program: 1
  • Buttonholes/Eyelets: 17/2
  • Practical Stitches: 40
  • Sideways Motion Stitches: 272
  • Quilting Stitches: 124
  • Tapering/Banner Stitch Patterns: 44/36
  • Maximum Embroidery Speed (stitches per minute):1,000 spm
  • NEW Embroidery Area 410 × 305 mm, 16.1“ × 12“
  • NEW BERNINA Placement Scanner
  • Freearm Embroidery
  • Built-in Embroidery Designs: 879
  • Embroidery Alphabets: 24
  • NEW Customisable Quilt Designs (BQM files): 206
  • On-screen Editing of Designs
  • Change Design Size Proportionally/Non-Proportionally
  • Align/Distribute Embroidery Designs
  • Endless Embroidery
  • Shape Designer
  • Colour Wheel
  • NEW Customisable Lettering
  • NEW QWERTY Keyboard
  • WordArt
  • NEW Multi-line Lettering and Align Function
  • Drag & Drop
  • NEW Align
  • Virtual Positioning
  • NEW Pinpoint Placement with 2-Point and 4-Point Placement
  • Check Design Size
  • Group/Ungroup
  • Move Up and Move Down
  • Undo/Redo
  • Adjust Stitch Density
  • NEW Margin Spacing in Basting
  • Colour Resequence
  • Stitch Design as Single/Multi-Colour
  • Programmable Jump Stitch Cutting
  • Smart Secure
  • Invisible Secure
  • Thread Away Mode
  • Creative Consultant Embroidery
  • Embroider Sewing Stitches
  • Multi-format Design compatible (EXP, DST, PEC, PES, JEF, PCS, SEW, XXX)
  • NEW Customisable Quilt Design Format compatible (BQM, HQF, PAT, PLI, QLI, TAP)
  • NEW Adjustable Stitch Length (SPI) for Customisable Quilt Designs
  • NEW Start and Stop Editing
  • NEW Design transfer to/from BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 via WiFi
  • Embroidery Design Import/Export via USB Interface
  • Automatic Hoop Recognition
  • View Stitch-out Time, Thread Colours, Size, Stitches
  • NEW BERNINA Stitchout App Compatible
  • Embroidery Sequence Control
  • Position Recall
  • Jumbo, Maxi, Mega and Midi Hoop Compatibility
  • Medium and Small Clamp Embroidery Hoop Compatibility

STANDARD

  • Sewing needle assortment
  • Embroidery needle assortment
  • Template holder
  • Power cable
  • Foot pedal
  • Net for thread spool, white
  • Height compensation tool
  • Seam ripper
  • Seam guide, right
  • Brush
  • Screwdriver, red
  • Screwdriver torx, gray
  • Spool stabilizer
  • Foam pad x4
  • Sewing thread set
  • Bobbins x5
  • Dust cover
  • Retractable thread guide
  • Spool cap D12
  • Spool cap D27
  • Spool cap D43
  • 9mm stitch plate
  • Dust cover for embroidery module
  • Fabric clamp x4
  • Embroidery thread set

PLUS…

  • BERNINA stitch regulator (Optional Extra)
  • Reverse pattern foot #1C
  • Reverse pattern foot #1D
  • Overlock foot #2A
  • Buttonhole foot with slide #3A
  • Zipper foot #4D
  • Blindstitch foot #5
  • Button sew-on foot #18
  • Open embroidery foot #20C
  • Embroidery foot #26L
  • Sideways-motion foot #40C
  • Straight and cutwork stitch plate with sensor
  • 5.5mm BISR stitch plate with sensor
  • Golden-yellow bobbin case
  • Freearm slide-on table
  • Seam guide for slide-on table
  • Knee lifter
  • Thread lubrication unit
  • USB stick
  • Touchscreen pen for 9 series
  • Sewing machine oil
  • BERNINA accessory box
  • Embroidery module XL (SDT)
  • Small embroidery hoop
  • Medium embroidery hoop
  • Large oval embroidery hoop
  • Giant embroidery hoop (12″ x 16.1″)

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Weight19.2 kg
Dimensions673 × 242 × 422 mm

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