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Meet the next generation of PFAFF® sewing and embroidery. The creative icon™ 3 combines advanced technology, precision sewing and powerful embroidery capabilities in one premium machine designed for makers who want more creative freedom.
From large-scale embroidery and quilting to garment sewing, decorative stitching and personalized projects, the creative icon™ 3 brings intelligent features into every part of the creative process.
New Embroidery Unit
The redesigned embroidery unit offers smoother, quieter operation with reduced noise and vibration. It also supports an impressive embroidery area of up to 450 x 450 mm with the optional Grand Turnable Hoop, giving you more room for large and detailed designs.
Redesigned hoop and embroidery unit connections make setup quick and easy.
Free-Arm Embroidery
Personalizing ready-made items just became much easier.
Free-arm embroidery lets you embroider tubular and hard-to-hoop projects such as:
- Sleeves
- Baby clothes
- Bags
- Pillowcases
- Other finished garments and accessories
There is no need to open seams just to place your embroidery.
Hoop Scanning
See exactly how your embroidery will interact with the fabric already in your hoop.
Hoop Scanning allows you to preview seams, fabric prints and previously stitched elements directly on screen, making it easier to position your design and coordinate thread colors before stitching begins.
Enhanced Exact Position with Scaling
Position and rotate embroidery designs with stitch-point accuracy.
The enhanced Exact Position feature also allows you to scale a design when elements extend beyond the hoop area. This is especially helpful when aligning multiple sections of a larger multi-hoop design.
Projected Sewing & Design Guidance
Preview before you stitch.
The built-in projection system can project stitches, guidelines and grids directly onto your fabric to help with positioning and alignment.
For embroidery, Design Projection lets you see the approximate size and placement of your design directly on the fabric before you begin.
Enhanced STITCH CREATOR™
Create stitches that are uniquely yours.
The enhanced STITCH CREATOR™ feature allows you to design decorative stitches wider than 9 mm from scratch or edit stitches already built into the machine.
Adjust stitch length, width and shape to create custom details, embellishments and decorative effects.
Quick Quilt Settings with Bobbin Pick-Up
Quilting in the embroidery hoop often requires several machine adjustments. Quick Quilt Settings simplifies the process by automatically preparing the machine for quilting.
The machine adjusts important settings including thread tension and automatic thread cutting while activating the new bobbin pick-up feature for a cleaner quilting setup.
Fabric Selection
Choose the type of fabric you're working with and the creative icon™ 3 automatically adjusts its settings based on your selected fabric, stitch and sewing technique.
That means less time adjusting settings and more time sewing.
CREATIVATE™ Connectivity
The creative icon™ 3 works within the CREATIVATE™ ecosystem, allowing compatible devices to communicate wirelessly.
Use connected features to:
- Transfer embroidery designs
- Receive live embroidery updates
- Sync designs between compatible devices
- Access embroidery designs directly from your machine
- Connect with the CREATIVATE™ mobile app
Highlights
- Sewing and embroidery functionality
- Free-arm embroidery capability
- Embroidery area up to 450 x 450 mm with optional Grand Turnable Hoop
- Redesigned embroidery unit
- Hoop Scanning
- Enhanced Exact Position with Scaling
- Design Projection
- Projected Sewing Guidance
- Enhanced STITCH CREATOR™
- Quick Quilt Settings
- Fabric Selection
- CREATIVATE™ connectivity
- creative™ Embellishment Attachment capability
- Special Techniques Hoop capability
The PFAFF® creative icon™ 3 is built for sewists, quilters and embroiderers who want premium performance paired with technology that makes ambitious projects easier to plan, position and create.
