Need owner's manual for Bernina Patchwork 140

The Bernina Patchwork 140 does not do embroidery from a file (either built-in or external). You can do some free-hand embroidery by lowering the feed dogs. Depress the feed dog position button on the right hand side of the machine. It's below the balance dial and between the foot control socket and the power cord socket.

I hope this helps. ManualsLib has the manual for the Bernina 140; it's a shared manual with the Activa 130 and 131.

Cindy Wells

Here you can download the manual:
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1002243/Bernina-Activa-131.html#product-Patchwork%20Edition%20140
and go to pages 14-15 for buttonholes.

As far as I know, the Patchwork 140 doesn't have a needle stop up/down button. You'll need to use the hand wheel to bring the needle up or down, as needed. The Bernina machines that have a needle stop up/down button have this button below the LCD screen. (On those machines, it's usually the left-most button below the LCD.) I suspect the index giving a page number for the Needle Stop Up/Down button is a artifact of using the same index for multiple machines.

The manual for the Patchwork 140 is available at Manuals Lib here: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1002243/Bernina-Activa-131.html . The Bernina 135 has the needle stop up/down button. See https://www.bernina.com/en-US/Support-US/Machines/BERNINA-activa/BERNINA-activa-135 . The manual for this model is https://www.bernina.com/getdoc/90f75840-2b12-4f46-88f2-76f09e35d8d4/030529-52-04_0303_a135-a145_EN .

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells

Difficult to say. Valuations vary depending on the condition, the accessories included, and where it is located. You can check eBay or some other sites to see how much similar machines are selling.

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here are 2 links for a manual for the sewing machine
http://www.bernina.com/getdoc/d4dc2dee-97a4-4987-ac83-14a5e664b42d/Bernette_100_200_manual

http://sewusa.com/Sewing_Machine_Manuals/Bernina_Manuals/130_140_Instruction_Manual.htm

The 130/705H needle system is standard across most domestic sewing machines so should be what your Bernina takes too.

Some machines will not do any of their automatic forwards and backwards movement type stitches in reverse, are you trying to reverse in straight stitch or a more complex stitch.

The Activa is a late model quality machine, do you have a Bernina dealer locally you could ring up and ask or take it to?

you can download a manual for the Activa 145 here, buttonholing steps would probably be very similar for your model
http://www.bernina.com.au/webautor-data/888/0305295204_0303_a135-a145_EN.pdf

It says you sew one bar, then press the reverse button and the automatic function then sews the bar tacs, other side, bar tack and finishes.

A stiff handwheel can be a simple as a thread stuck in the raceway or as severe as a failed uppershaft bushing.

Using your instruction manual, perform the basic maintenance and see if that helps. If not, take it to a repair person for evaluation.

feed dogs button will not pop out so it is flush with the machine