I have a janome 9000 I too just loved it,it sews so quite. I can't understand why the motor went out all ready. Unless like cars some are just lemons. Or I do blame my self for using it on the flanal rag quilts. Maybe I didn't clean it often enough. I never really got to use it much for embrodary because I couldn't affoard the $700 box that was needed for it. I miss using it so much,but I didn't get it fixed because I want to trade it in for the next one up I saw one on ebay for 1,400 but I don't know if that is with warrenty or not.