Your HCS Journey machine was carefully packed at the factory using quality packing materials and procedures to assure that your machine is ready, right out of the box to sew.  Be sure to take the same care when un-boxing Journey and assembling it to run! Upper Threading  Threading the upper (Colored) Thread   Threading your Journey [...]

General instructions: (1) Download the ZIP file and extract all contents.  The result should be a folder of the same name ("firmware_update_1.36...").   (2)  Go into this folder, and there should be another, single folder called "UpdateFile".  (3) Copy this last folder and its entire contents to the root directory of a compatible USB thumb drive. [...]