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http://www.janomeflyer.com/janome-horizon-9400 Janome 9400 review Hi there I am Alayna and I work at Toews Sewing, and I am here to give you a review on the brand new, Janome Memory Craft 9400QCP. It is a beautiful machine. I am just going to go through all the things that I like about this machine. First of all, you can see very clearly here, we've got a lot of space in the throat, it is 11 inches from the needle to the machine. We've got a lot of awesome features such as, the High Light, so there is no shadow when you are working with your sewing, you don't see any shadows it is true lighting, LED lighting. I also really like that there is an opening in the side here for our magnifying glass. Now this accessory is one that doesn’t come with it, it is optional, but look at that! It is fully adjustable, you can rotate it to whatever angle you want, you can push it off to the side if you don't need it, or you can just pop it off. I would like to go through some of the attachments that it does come with. I really like this cloth guide, it just clips on the base or free arm of the sewing machine and you can adjust it to whatever seam allowance you want. You can put it at your 5/8's or 1/4", whatever you need. We have three options for raising and lowering our presser foot: our regular one at the back of course, and a little button on the front, and we also have our knee controller. We have an extra-large foot control, as well as a thread cutter controller there. But, we have lots of options, we also have a thread cutter control on the front of the machine. I am just going to demo with the foot control… and just go to the smaller pedal, and it clips and raises my presser foot for me. Or, you have the option of unplugging the foot control, and sewing with a little button on the front there and clipping with the button on the front of the machine. And again, it pulls both threads down to the bottom of the fabric and clips them off and raises your presser foot. One of my favorite things about this machine is the needle plate just pops off by pressing a button, so there is no more screws, so for cleaning it is a lot easier to get under there and it is also easier to change your needle plates. This one is very exciting and it comes with three needle plates: you get your standard zigzag where you can do your buttonholes and decorative stitches and all the stitches that are on the machine. It also comes with your standard straight stitch needle plate, where you can do a straight stitch at any needle position. But what is very exciting is we have the new high precision needle plate, so we are going to get stitches that are straighter than ever. When we have our zigzag plate on, we have all this space for the needle to push fabric into and every time the needle goes down, fabric is being slightly pushed into the needle plate, and making it on a bit of an angle or the stitch on an angle. Where if we have our straight stitch needle plate, it's got this tiny little hole so every time our needle goes down, there's not very much fabric being pushed into there we are getting a really nice straight stitch, and a lot less jamming. For example, when you are piecing triangles together on a light weight quilting cotton, you're not going to have any jamming in your needle plate. The needle threader is great on this machine you just simply press a button and it threads the eye of the needle for you. You have all the standard features of most computerized Janome's, you have a lock stitch, it ties a not at the beginning and end of your seam, you have needle up/ down. Oops it came un-threaded there, probably because I used the needle threader without threading it. There we go, you see how quick and easy that was. We have speed control and that works with your start/ stop button and the foot control. It's tying a knot right now. We've got lots of options for stitches and by the way, you have the new 9 mm stitch width so your stitches are much larger. It has 350 built on stitches, however, that is actually limitless because it does come with a computer program called Stitch Composer, where you can create your own decorative stitches and send it over via USB port, and that's exciting too because most regular sewing machines don't have a USB port and this one does. You've got a nice big touch screen so getting to your stitches is very easy. Each stitch is preset at a certain width and length, so I am just going to press the picture of the zigzag, and start sewing the zigzag. It was already preset at a width of 3mm long and 1.5mm sorry, 3mm wide and 1.5mm apart, but I have full control over that I can make it as wide or as short as I want. I have full selection or full adjustment of tension and pressure right on my screen. We don't have any more knobs up on the sewing machine, and that is actually better because if I select a stitch that requires a higher tension, it's changed it for me. http://www.janomeflyer.com/