Originally Posted by Maia B
How often do you go over thick jeans seams with quilting? I own several Janomes. I attach a walking foot when I need to do thick stuff. I don't need to attach a walking foot to attach my kids club patches on a thick shirt. I have many vintage machines and they can handle thick jean seams too but I generally prefer to use the Janome with a walking foot. I don't use denim for quilting but I need to fix clothes for my DH and children all the time.
Look at what you need the machine for and besure it does what you want it to do. Is there any way you can go and sit and sew on the machine you are considering? I have a Janome 6500 and a Janome embrodery machine. The embrodery machine only got used for quilting. I gave it to my DD when DH gave me the Janome 6500. She only uses it for quilting. None of us like to do embrodery. What a waste of money for me to have bought that machine. If I had to do it again I would have saved all that money and saved up towards a used long arm.