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Subject: Online lessons: MR Memory (#3)

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:40:25 -0800

From: Ashley Engelund <engelund@halcyon.com>

To: 1630 List <1630@lyris.quiltropolis.com>

This is one of a series of on-line lessons about the Bernina 1630 sewing machine. All content is copyright 2000-2002 by Ashley Engelund. Permission is granted to copy and distribute this information provided that this copyright statement is included. All companies mentioned retain their respective copyrights and trademarks. All info is the personal opinion of Ashley Engelund.

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MR Memory

Supplies Needed:

• - graph paper
• - something to write with
• - your 1630 manual
• - your 1630, ready to sew!

There are 2 places where you can store stitches and stitch sentences on your 1630. They are:

• - the MR Memory area, and
• - the SP Memory area

The MR Memory area is where you can create, edit, and store your stitch sentences. 

FIRST we'll learn about MR Memory -- definitions, how big it is, and what you can do with it.
NEXT we'll learn how to 'write' a stitch sentence in MR memory and sew it out.
THEN we'll learn how to edit a stitch sentence (add stuff, delete stuff, etc) in MR memory and sew it out.

A. Learning about MR memory -- what it is and why you should care ;-)

So imagine that you work hard and construct a very fancy stitch sentence that you're really proud of. Maybe it's something like:

"stitch out 5 of D1/2 using the pattern extension X2, then move 30 degrees and stitch out 1 of G2/7, then stitch out 1 of G2/7 but mirror it vertically, then 5 more of D1/2 with those mirrored vertically, then..."

(Note that I have no idea how that would look -- I'm not near my sewing machine right now. It's just an example of the kinds of things you can write in a stitch sentence.)

You've worked hard to get that stitch sentence to sew out something you really like. Wouldn't it be great if you could somehow SAVE it so that you can turn off your machine and have it STILL BE THERE when you come back later? (Would't it be a shame if you had to re-enter that stitch sentence every time?!)

You can -- you simply save that stitch sentence in MR Memory and it will be there for you -- even after you turn the machine off. Cool, no?

MR Memory is a place in your 1630 that has room for NINE stitch sentences. (NINE. Nine nine nine. you'll be seeing a lot of that number.)  Each stitch sentence that can be stored can be up to SEVENTY 'items' long. (A stitch is an item; a function is an item. We'll go over examples of this.)

So... you have NINE sentences, and each is SEVENTY items long.  That means you can store NINE times SEVENTY items. 9 * 70 = 630. You can store 630 items! That's a lotta stuff!

For those of you that deal with pictures better than numbers, here's a little excersize to help you see how the MR memory area is organized:

(Note that I've included links to the web page so that you can see the drawings.) [Hey look -- you actually get to DO something, instead of just reading about it! ;-]

Take a page of graph paper and turn it sideways (landscape) so that the long edges go across the top and bottom. It doesn't matter how many squares across your graph paper is. But you need to have at least 29 squares down available.  On the top row of the graph paper, write "MR MEMORY AREAS." This is just a label for the page -- write it anywhere on the top row.

Now we're going to number down the left hand side of the paper. (Remember this is a short edge -- the long edge of the paper is on the top & bottom.) On the second row, write the number "1" (one). Then skip 2 rows (so you have the number, then 2 blank rows underneath), then write the number 2 (two).

Keep going -- skip 2 rows, then write a 3, then skip two rows.... all the way until you write the number 9. So you have the number 1-9 down the left hand side of the page, with 2 blank rows inbetween each number.

Number your graph paper so it looks like this:

Now draw a rectangle by each number -- 2 rows high and all the way across the page (whatever size graph paper you have).  It should look something like this:

(On the graphic above  I've made the rectangles blue just so they're easier to see. If it makes you happy to color in your rectangles, then by all means please do so.)

Each of those NINE rectangles represents one MR Memory 'area' or "slot". I like to call them "MR memory slots". So you have nine rectangles -- nine SLOTS to fill up in the MR Memory area. You can put a stitch sentence in each of those MR Memory slots. (Actually, you can put more than just one stitch sentence in a slot, but we'll get to that later.)

And recall that each of those slots can hold up to SEVENTY items in it. (Obviously, your graph paper may or may not show 70 little boxes in those rectangles, but you get the idea.)

Now, with that in mind, we'll now go to the next step:

*** We'll learn how to 'write' a stitch sentence in MR memory and sew it out.  (the next post...)

(Here begineth the second post about MR Memory:)

Subject: OLL: #3: MR Memory (part 2)

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:49:24 -0800

From: Ashley Engelund <engelund@halcyon.com>

To: 1630 List <1630@lyris.quiltropolis.com>

This is one of a series of on-line lessons about the Bernina 1630 sewing machine. All content is copyright 2000 by Ashley Engelund. Permission is granted to copy and distribute this information provided that this copyright statement is included. All companies mentioned retain their respective copyrights and trademarks. All info is the personal opinion of Ashley Engelund.

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So -- now know that you have NINE MR</