Highly sophisticated. Brilliantly simple. The B480 expertly combines simple, easy-to-use features with innovative technology, ensuring that her stitches are impeccable on everything from leather to delicate fabrics. Her machine exceeds her expectations. You can expect the same.
Key features:
Automatic features save time
- Automatic thread cutting
- Press a button, thread is cut
- Save time for the most creativity
Adjustable Presser Foot Pressure
- Thin fabrics? Increase pressure
- Thick materials? Reduce pressure
- Sew a variety of materials with ease
Big ideas need more space
- More room for all kinds of projects
- Slide-on extension table included
- Spacious and hassle free
Easy to navigate touch screen
- Modern colour touch screen
- Easy to use with simple navigation
- On-screen support when needed
Hands free and in control
- Hands-free sewing with the knee lifter
- Your hands guide the fabric anytime
- Simultaneously raises/lowers presser foot and feed dog
Perfect stitches perfectly easy
- Sew perfect stitches with 9 mm stitch width
- Jumbo bobbin means fewer stops
- Convenient, Front-load bobbin
- Hook system: BERNINA Hook
- Maximum sewing speed (stitches per minute): 900
- Sewing space to the right of the needle: 7” / 177,7 mm
- Colour touch screen: 4.3” / 10 cm
- Maximum stitch width: 9
- Adjustable presser foot pressure
- Start/stop button (stitching without foot control)
- Sewing tutorial
Sewing and quilting:
- Pattern start/end function
- Elongation
- Automatic securing function
- Pattern repeat (up to 9)
- Pattern mirroring
- Free Hand System (FHS)
- Number of stitch patterns (incl. alphabet) total 994
- Utility stitches total 29
- Buttonholes (incl. eyelet) total 11
- Automatic buttonhole length measuring system
- Automatic buttonhole
- Manual multi-step buttonhole
- Button sew-on program
- Darning programs 2
- Decorative stitches total 250
- Quilting stitches total 27
- Cross-stitch programs 21
- Sewing alphabets 5
- Reverse sewing
What's in the Box?
- Reverse pattern foot/sole #1
- Overlock foot/sole #2
- Buttonhole foot with slide #3A / Buttonhole sole #3
- Zipper foot/sole #4
- Blind stitch foot/sole #5
- BERNINA slide-on free arm extension table
- BERNINA Free Hand System (FHS)
- Knee lifter for FHS
- Dust cover
- Magnetic Accessory box
Want to go where your creativity takes you without being limited? This machine lets you make all the creative decisions.
Like choosing the stitch length and width or deciding the needle position. If you want the needle down when it stops, you got it. And all that control is conveniently located at your fingertips on the large, intuitive touch screen.
Automatic features save time
No more manual threading
Save time for more creativity
Threads are cut automatically, or if you prefer, magically. Even the needle lifts leaving your hands free to keep on creating.
Keep your hands on the fabric
Hands-free sewing is reality
Hands are free to guide the fabric
Simultaneously raises/lowers presser foot and feed dog
The BERNINA Free Hand System lets you lift or lower the presser foot using only the knee lifter, allowing hands to guide your projects to bigger and better things.
Nice, easy perfect stitches
Sew perfect stitches with 9mm stitch width
Sew even longer with the jumbo bobbin
Conveniently, front-load bobbin
Perfect precision is achieved with each stitch thanks to the BERNINA Hook. Plus, projects are done faster with speeds up to 900 stitches per minute.
Adjustable Presser Foot Pressure
Sew any material perfectly with ease
Increase pressure for thin materials
Reduce pressure for thick materials
Individual adjustment is easy to make, ensuring the ideal pressure is achieved for any and all materials no matter how thick or delicate.
Easy to navigate touch screen
Modern color touch screen
Easy to use with simple navigation
On-screen support when needed
Always ready to be of assistance, the Sewing Consultant helps find the right settings. And suggested tips are easily made with the multi-function knobs