Originally Posted by mardilee
I bought a Janome 11000SE and I love it. It is not as big as some of the Brother and Babylock machines. But it has a very large bed (is it called a harp?) I love that I can piece on the machine and then do fancy quilting patterns on the quilt. Sometimes I make embroidered blocks too. Right now I'm working on a Cub Scout quilt for my grandson. Cub Scouts are embroidered. FMQ around the scouts is done automatically by the machine. Centers of the pieced squares are a quilting pattern from the machine. These machines are expensive as are the supplies you need to embroider with, but it is so much fun! I love my machine! It's a terrific retirement hobby!
I got one of these too! I love it. I'm sad that I didn't bite the bullet several years ago when I bought two other Janome sewing machine and the 300E Embrodiery Machine and would have bought the big one then. I've also bought two upgrades for it already. But now the way I look at it today -- my daughter gets two machines and I have two machines. Now if I could just figure out how to get the big longarm quilting machine....... I would be set for life!!!!
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