Janome 6500/6600 owners please
07-27-2010, 10:09 PM
#102
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Brisbane
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I tend to trade up every 18 months - I started about five years ago with a $200 Janome which I laybyed with my store owner here, and I worked my way through six machines, and ended up with the one today and a 350 e plus a mid range one all of which I kept. So I actually traded off three others to get here. However have no intention of parting with the Horizons, it will see me out. They do great deals at times with Janome and that is the time to trade and get the next one up. I paid about $1600 for my 6600 and sold it on the trade in back to the store for $1500 so in reality it cost me $100 to use it for eighteen months. I am pretty happy with that. I might add I own about 36 old machines, which I am now going to sell most of them off as we have run out of room. I am a machine junkie. I shall keep a couple of treadles and some hand cranks. Hopefully they will pay for the balance on the Horizon I owe my hubby's Mastercard - that is what I told him anyway :) So miss-ticky2 keep an eye on the net with Aussie stores and you will see the special come up on a 6600 and that is when you buy. The specials are all over Oz at every store when it happens.
07-27-2010, 10:33 PM
#103
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Location: other side of the black stump, Perth Western Australia
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you are so lucky Wings..i drool over the Horizon but will have to wait until it comes down in price some. I was even too scared to sit down at a demo as I knew it would have been impossible not to own one then and there!
07-27-2010, 10:42 PM
#104
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My best friend died a month ago - it was kinda like knock knock - I lost a husband that way and my present husband lost his wife same way - so the lesson is - live and dance. So I decided to throw caution to the wind and get the Horizon. Life is too short to be practical all the time. Somehow the name Horizon said it all :) Seriously I cannot see me getting another machine for a very long time, this machine has everything I want. The 6600 is a beautiful machine and I loved it so much when I bought it that I wrote a write up for my local shop and asked her to put it on her wall to tell people what a great purchase it had been for me. I cannot fault the 6600. I met a lot of women who bought one, and they all loved it.
07-27-2010, 11:58 PM
#105
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Gold Coast, Australia
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You've done well Wings. I'm using my 25+ year old Janome so I guess it doesn't owe me anything..lol. Hubby and I looked briefly at the Horizon in a store down here just yesterday (I'm yet to test drive it..lol) and he's quite happy for me to get it. We just don't have the pennies right at the moment... but we have a plan :D I was thinking of the 6600 but would rather wait a little longer and get the Horizon.
07-28-2010, 12:43 AM
#106
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Location: Brisbane
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Good luck with the plan miss-ticky2 - and we want to see pics of your Horizon when you get it please:) I used to live near the Gold Coast (Mt Tamborine) and I do miss that area. That is the most gorgeous cat in your Avatar pic by the way. My cat has grown a tad since my avatar pic, he is a manx and has no tail. We had an old persian with a beautiful tail, he just fell in love with her and that tail when he moved in here, but sadly it was not to be, I used to tell him that those Spring / Autumn relationships would never work out and sadly our old cat passed. He still looks for her where he last saw her. She of course never gave him the time of day!
07-28-2010, 04:09 PM
#107
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Vista, CA
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I have a 6600 and I LOVE IT! I like the acufeed but DO NOT like that "thingy" on the back--it catches on my basting pins and does get caught in the quilt. That is the only complaint I have with the machine, it sews like a dream! :) :) :)
08-04-2010, 04:59 PM
#110
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Location: SW Florida
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Watching this thread helped me decide ... I came home with a new Horizon last night. I haven't really used it yet -- had to go to work today (:-( ) but have been reading the manual, and figuring out how to fit it into my small work space -- I am really excited. I already love the extra lighting and the extended work table. I am anxious to see how it does FMQ. With the large throat, it should really make things so much easier.
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