New Janome
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New Janome
Our local quilt shop is hosting demos on the latest Janome. I stopped in there today and looked at it; then druelled all over myself. WOW, it does everything. My husband has been encouraging me to get another machine; and was kind of weary, but WOW it that new Janome a fantastic machine. It quilts, embrodiers, combines the two, can use up to 5 different threads, and all the designs. WOW! Can you tell I'm excited! I am going tomorrow to watch the entire demonstration b4 I make up my mind.
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Delmarva Peninsula
Posts: 1,151
I agree with this reply. Search online for comments on dual operation sewing machines. I may be dating myself, but whenever I hear about a product that is multi purpose I remember "The Baby Tender" from the 1960's (I am dating myself), high chair, stroller, walker, baby seat, sounded great, but it did not do one thing best. Required an engineering degree to figure out how to do each purpose.
#8
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,991
Do your research first and make sure to try sewing an actual quilt block and a small quilt sandwich before you commit to buying. I've had a love/hate relationship with my Janome 6500 and both my old Bernina and new to me Husqvarna #1+ do a much better stitching job than it does. It loves to balk when starting, jamming up threads, veers off the stitching line at seam junctions and has an oil wick under the bobbin case that needs oiling (not in the manual) or it growls, rattles and jumps out of place. Don't buy unless you get to stitch your stuff first as the little bits of cotton the shop may give you to work on really doesn't show you what you need to know.
#9
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 417
Demos are wonderful, show all the bells and whistles and really make you want to buy that machine. But I would never buy unless I sat down at the machine and sewed and sewed. I'd even take a list of features that is a must have on a machine.
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