I have a Janome Memorycraft 9000 which I got several years ago. One point I would make is although I don't often embroider, you can also do automatic quilting with the embroidery feature. I've used mine to quilt small designs such as flowers and butterflies on small quilts. There are also feather designs that you can use but I've never taken the time to figure out how to use them. If anyone already has an embroidery machine you might consider what you can do using the quilting designs.