PghPat

Hi all....This forum has been a blessing to me since I started sewing/quilting almost 2 years ago. I don't post very often but I am on here every single day and constanting bragging about what all I've learned from all of you.

Well, now I'm asking for personal help. I bought a Janome 300e Embroidery machine last year and have hardly use it. I decided shortly after I got it that maybe I should have gotten the 350e and maybe I'd use it more. Well, after researching and almost making a trade I realized that it has a few more bells and whistles but won't make a big difference in embroidering. On my 300 I use Compact Flash cards (512 mb) and the big difference with the 350 is that it has a USB port and you can use a flash drive. BUT, no larger than 1 gb. My two 512 mb cards hold just as many designs as the 1 GB, so that's not really a big deal. Then a dealer told me that even tho the 300 is an older model it is built much better than the newer 350.

Every other day I think I am going to sell it because I don't know what ever gave me the idea to buy it and what things I thought I'd do with it. I think it was one of those really spur of the minute decisions (with a good talking sales person). I would love to have some of you that have the 300 to post pics of some of the things you can do....or maybe tell me that you had one and feel the same as I do.....why did I buy this in the first place?

I guess I also need to know how many different stabilizers you need to have and if you always have to use the more expensive embroidery thread.

I know this seems like silly delima but I keep thinking that if I'm not really going to use it I should sell it and buy a better "take with" little Janome. I go to a lot of quilt guilds and my Janome 6600 is too heavy. I got a little Gem Gold but would rather have the Gem Platinium 720 or a new little Janome that I saw in a quilt shop yesterday........whilch is really gotten me thinking about what I should do.

So sorry for the LONG post but would love some input. Thanks! Pat