Baby Lock BLSOG Ellisimo Gold

Opportunities come in all shapes and sizes, and often taking a chance can lead to something great. For sewers and embroiderers, opportunity knocks daily. You have a chance to put a piece of yourself into every project, and with the Ellisimo Gold sewing and embroidery machine, you have a golden opportunity to let your creativity flourish.

The Ellisimo Gold has many innovative features that are sure to spark your imagination. Built for sewers, embroiderers, and quilters alike, the Ellisimo Gold is the perfect tool regardless of your inspiration. There are fabulous editing features for stitches and embroidery designs, and a large throat space perfect for quilting. Take advantage of this golden opportunity, and try the Ellisimo Gold sewing and embroidery machine.

Baby Lock IQ Technology TruView™ ASV LCD Color Touch Screen in HD

Shows over 16 million colors and 480 x 800 pixels
Measures 8.5" diagonally
160 degrees for optimum viewing

Baby Lock IQ Technology Exclusive NeedleCam™ For Scanning and Flawless Positioning

NeedleCam™ Digital Camera for perfect embroidery and sewing positioning

Baby Lock IQ Technology Embroidery Editing and Resizing

Sometimes it’s the tiniest details that really pull a project together, and other times you need a super-sized image for a large task. With the Ellisimio Gold, you can reduce your images down to 60% or increase them up to 200%.

Color Visualizer

The unique Color Visualizer feature helps to enhance your creativity by displaying your design in an endless array of color combinations. Choose from four categories: Random, Vivid, Gradient and Soft. Then watch as your designs transform on the vivid ASV LCD screen. Each color combination is just as elegant as the last, and they’ll all have you thinking, “Why didn’t I think of that?”

Baby Lock IQ Technology OnScreen Designer™ with SketchPad™ Digital Tablet

With OnScreen Designer, you can take personalization to a whole new level. Now you can produce your own embroidery designs with the SketchPad Digital Tablet. The Ellisimo Gold instantly digitizes hand-drawn designs with this revolutionary feature. Drawn and traced designs can be filled or left as an outline; either way, embroidering a completely original design has never been easier.

Stadium Lighting

Shine a spotlight on your projects with Stadium lighting™. This system uses 8 high-color LED lights to illuminate the needle and work area for brighter true color LED lighting. By surrounding your needle with up to 10 inches of light, you can see every stitch clearly without straining your eyes.

557 Built-In Embroidery Designs

With 557 built-in embroidery designs, the Ellisimo Gold is constructed to help your imagination reach new heights. The Ellisimo Gold features hundreds of exclusive designs including 39 from Nancy Zieman herself! Now you can truly sew like Nancy.

Hoops of all sizes for nearly every project

Extra large 8" x 12" (200mm x 300mm)
Square 8" x 8" (200mm x 200mm)
Medium 4" x 4" (100mm x 100mm)
Small 1" x 2-1/2" (20mm x 60mm)

682 Built-in-Stitches

The Ellisimo Gold includes a stitch for every type of project, no matter where your inspiration leads. Plus, if you want more you can customize your stitches and save them for future use. Changes made to your stitches are instantly processed and displayed on the LCD screen, so you can check and edit, it only takes a second to change it again. Find and create stitches for every occasion.

Bobbin Work Capabilities

Add a bit of personality, texture, and style to your projects through the use of the Ellisimo Gold’s bobbin work capabilities.

NeverMiss™ Automatic Needle Threader™

The NeverMiss Automatic Needle Threader does exactly what it promises. It’s never been this fast or easy—the Ellisimo Gold threads your needle with little more than the push of a button.

Baby Lock IQ Technology™

Baby Lock IQ Technology is what makes Baby Lock machines so smart and efficient. IQ Technology works with the "brain" of your machine to help achieve exactly what you desire.

Technology Features

TruView™ ASV LCD Color Touch Screen
- Shows 16,770,000 colors
- Measures 8.5" diagonally
- 176 degrees for optimum viewing
NeedleCam™ Digital Camera for perfect embroidery and sewing positioning
- Center position scanning
Precise Touch™ Positioning using NeedleCam
OnScreen Designer
Sketchpad tablet and electronic pen
Color Visualizer for multiple thread options
Stadium Lighting™ for brighter true color LED lighting on the needle and work area
3 USB drives; 2 (Type A) drives, 2.0 and 1.1 connects with a Mouse, Hub, Floppy drives, Flash drives and CD-Rom drives and 1 (Type B) USB direct connect to a PC
Increased Processing Speed
NeverMiss™ Automatic Threading System
Advanced Pivoting Feature and Automatic Fabric Senor System
Automatic thread cutter (with on/off capability)
Quick-Set, Top-Loading bobbin with sensor
Quick-Set Independent bobbin winding system with variable speed
Automatic sensors
- Thread tension control makes tension adjustments for accurate stitches
- Upper and lower thread sensors on/off
- Upper and lower thread sensors to alert when threads run out
- On-screen hoop sensor to recommend size of hoop
Access designs stored in folders when using USB type A
Embroidery and sewing speed up to 1,000 spm

Embroidery Capabilities

Built-in embroidery design library
557 Embroidery designs built-in
- 302 Baby Lock exclusives including 39 Nancy Zieman designs
- 14 bobbin work embroidery designs
120 Frame combinations
19 font styles including
- Exclusive script alphabet characters (75 total)
- Large Floral Alphabet
- Greek Alphabet
Embroiders up to 8" x 12" (200mm x 300mm) embroidery field
Memory capacity 2MB
Reads embroidery designs with a stitch capacity of up to 500,000 stitches per design
TruView™ ASV Touch Screen shows:
- Design placement using drag and drop capabilities
- Enhanced realistic preview
- Design previews can be enlarged 200%
- Needle positioning grid
- Needle position image can be enlarged 200%
- Thumbnail images viewed at 150% the normal size
- Estimated embroidery time display and stitch count
- Needle advancement (1, 10, or 100 stitch increments)
- Measurements displayed in inches or metrics
- Color separation
- Thread color indicator
- On screen hoop size indicator
- Low bobbin thread indicator
- 300 color names
- Screen saver customization
Embroidery speed up to 1,000 spm
8-Point trial check points
Starting point key for instant alignment of characters or patterns
Alternate bobbin case for pre-wound bobbins
Customize embroidery pattern and thumbnail background colors (66 options)
Resume feature
On screen grid
Cuts jump stitches (with on/off capability)
Embroider without removing the foot control

Embroidery Editing Capabilities

Combine embroidery designs on screen
Character/text array function
Character spacing
1°, 10°, and 90° Pattern rotation
Enhanced design enlargement (up 200%)and reduction (down 60%)
Design duplication
Automatic appliqué
Automatic basting
Mirror imaging
Change color selections within designs
Color sorting on border designs
Monochrome option for embroidery designs
Programmable custom thread color selection
Print and stitch capabilities

Advanced Sewing Features

682 Built-in stitches including
- 148 Utility including 15 one-step buttonhole styles and 1 four-step custom buttonhole
- 355 Decorative
- 79 Decorative satin
- 20 Satin
- 17 Cross
- 63 Combinable Utility stitches
3 Built-in alphabets
29 Quilting stitches offer 57 needle position options
Stitch length 0.0mm - 5.0mm
Basting stitch length of up to 30mm
Maximum Utility stitch width 7mm
Utility stitch editing capabilities
5 Memory settings for each Utility stitch
Decorative stitch editing capabilities
- Edit and combine Character Decorative stitches
- 20 memory Pockets for Character/Decorative stitches equaling 800KB
- Satin stitch elongation
Edge sewing capabilities using NeedleCam™ Digital Camera
Sew Utility and Decorative stitches while embroidery arm is attached
Automatic drop feed
Mirror-image
Lock key for Utility and Decorative stitches
Lateral and diagonal feeding
Variable needle positions
Fully automatic built-in darning
Twin needle settings

Convenient Sewing Features

Larger sewing bed and workspace equaling 50 square inches
Convenient One-Touch Buttons for
- Start/Stop
- Reverse sewing
- Needle up/down
- Thread cutter
- Automatic presser foot lift
- Automatic needle threading
Sewing speed control
Ergonomic 3-position, adjustable knee lift with extra high presser foot lift
- 10mm Automatic and 13mm Manual
Programmable 3-step needle up/down
Needle plate with scale in inches and centimeters
Electronic foot control with separate power cord
Free arm
Two accessory storage compartments

Instructional and Help Resources

Built-in Operational Guide with 11 built-in videos
Built-in Sewing Application Guide
Built-in Help Messages
Embroidery Stitch Count System - .SCS
Capability to save screen images

Downloadable Software

Your Ellisimo Gold will stay current with future upgrades via USB connection

Additional Information

Language conversion capabilities (12 languages)
Warranty (25 years limited, 10 years parts, 5 years computer circuit, 5 years electrical, 1 year labor)
Optional Gold Standard Comprehensive Care Program
Optional embroidery hoops
- 6 1/4" x 10 1/4" (160mm x 260mm) hoop
- 5" x 7" (130mm x 180mm) hoop
- Continuous Border Hoop (100mm X 180mm)
Optional 1GB Flash Drive (BL-1GBFD)
Optional Thread Stand (holds 10 spools) (BLSO-TS)
Optional 16" x 23 3/4" Extension Table and grip (BLSO-ET)
Optional Embroidery Card Reader (BLECR)

Included Accessories

Sketchpad USB tablet and cordless pen
Adjustable knee lifter with 3-position handle
Baby Lock digital USB mouse
Touch pen (stylus)
LCD cleaning cloth
USB cable
18 Snap-on presser feet
- Buttonhole
- Embroidery
- Overcasting
- Monogramming
- Zipper
- Zig zag
- Blind stitch
- Button fitting
- Walking
- Free-motion quilting
- Free-motion open toe quilting
- Echo quilting
- Straight stitch
- Side cutter
- Blind stitch (with guide)
- Narrow hemmer
- Cording (with 3 cord guide)
- Vertical stitch alignment foot
Accessory case for presser foot storage with interchangeable trays
Soft canvas cover for machine with 3 storage pockets
Carrying case for embroidery unit
2 Thread spool stand for larger cones
Straight stitch needle plate
Alternate bobbin case for use with pre-wound bobbins
Bobbin center pin
Embroidery bobbin thread
Bobbins
Cord guide bobbin cover
Seam ripper
Twin needle
Embroidery hoops and grids included
- 8" x 12" (200mm x 300mm)
- 8" x 8" (200mm x 200mm)
- 4" x 4" (100mm x 100mm)
- 1" x 2-1/2" (20mm x 60mm)
Plus more