Originally Posted by
KyKaren1949
I bought a Janome 1600 for about $2000 and have had nothing but trouble with it knotting up and making thread nests on the bottom of my fabric. The dealer tells me it's the thread, but I have always used Gutermann thread and had no issues whatsoever. It's an excellent thread. Another Janome dealer that I spoke with at the TN Quiltfest says I should NOT be having trouble with Gutermann thread.
Sounds familiar. I had a troublesome Janome 4800 which wouldn't do free motion quilting - it was impossible to get the tension right. I too was told by the dealer it was the threads (Superior King Tut) that I was using - when he wasn't telling me it was my incompetence causing the problems. I now have a new dealer and a new machine (Janome 7700), and, miraculously, I'm suddenly quite good at quilting and the thread are fine. Some machines are just lemons, and Janome and some of their dealers are NOT good when it happens.