Janome Memory Craft 9500 Computerized Sewing Machine

I had checked out several Janome machines and for what I wanted to do, and for the price, the 9500 was best suited for me. It is a user friendly machine. I love the versatility of the embroidery program loaded on the machine. It also will accept memory cards and downloads off of your computer. It came with an instructional DVD which gives you the basics of each option on the machine. The place that I purchased the machine is an authorized Janome dealer and offered me free classes on my particular machine. I do not know if that is standard for dealers or just the particular one I dealt with. To be able to use one machine for regular or decorative sewing is such a blessing when you have limited space to do your craft. The only downside I encountered was with the embroidery program only taking .sew and .jef files. I did not have a program to open these files and had to purchase one. After that I have enjoyed many hours creating new items for my home and family. I would recomend the 9500 to anyone wanting to venture into embroidery at a reasonable cost.

I already had a sewing/embroidery machine but I wanted one that would sew a larger design than the one that I had.I like being able to embroider a 5"x7" design because I don't have to rehoop so often.I also liked the looks of the Janome 9500 in the pictures.It looked almost new.There are two things that I don't like about it.The light on it is not quite bright enough and the screen on it is not in color.