It’s here! It’s at the store...we have a new Skyline S9 on our showroom floor.
The Janome S9 is a sewing and embroidery combo machine. On the sewing side, it has plenty of features we demanding sewists and quilters want.
- A 9mm with a whopping 300 built-in stitches and 3 alphabet fontsAn easy set-bobbin and pop-out stitch plates (NO MORE SCREWDRIVERS!)
- Acufeed Flex fabric layering system
- Auto presser foot lift, yeah, that “hover” function.
- Stitch tapering, memory, and much more!
Now let’s look at embroidery! This is the most exciting part of this
machine. Really, it’s about an industry
first. No other midline machine has a
“camera” feature capability to obtain perfect placement of embroidery designs on hooped
projects. To have that capability, we
had to look at the top-of-the-line Janome 15000 or a Brother Dream
machine. Imagine how happy I was to find
a budget-friendly combo machine with this incredibly high-end feature! Plenty of brands have great sewing/embroidery
combo midline machines, but Janome is the ONLY one to use an iPad “camera”
capability using the FREE Janome Acusetter app found in the App store.
What??? You think it might be hard to learn? Don’t worry. It’s actually pretty easy, and Pocono Sew and Vac made a video last spring to show our customers and the world how to use the embroidery portion of the machine with the Acusetter app.
Amazing
is the word to describe it. Easy is the
word on how to use it. Free is the word
we all like to hear. If you are not
familiar with this iPad app, be sure to check it out on our instructional Acusetter
video.
What
else makes this machine so special?
How about free-arm embroidery! The machine standard accessories include 3
hoop sizes (6.7X7.9, 5.5X5.5, 3.9X1.6) and allows for easy embroidery of
tubular items. Put a pretty design on tubular items without all the hassle of taping and clipping away the project from the
embroidery area. Eliminate a lot of the
seam ripping of seams to position an embroidery design just right. That awesome free-arm capability found on the
12000, 14000, and 15000 can now be found on the S9.
In addition, Janome has listened to
you! That popular “hover” aka pivot
feature found on other brands is found on the Skyline S9. This the perfect feature for garment sewists
and quilters stitching machine applique.
Stop reaching for the presser foot lifter or knee lifter. One touch of an icon and your foot will lift
automatically for you when you stop sewing.
You will be not only hands free, but knee free as well.
Here’s another feature on this
machine that is sure to please: The
Skyline S9 is cutwork enabled. What is
cutwork? Think of it as a needlework technique in which embroidered designs features areas
completely cut out of the fabric, the edges reinforced, and the holes that
remain are filled in with embroidery lace-like stitches. Check out this exquisite cutwork example:
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| Image Source: Janome |
I was “sew” excited about this new
machine, and a new video about it was a must-do task. It is budget friendly and incorporates a slew
of high-end features on this great, new midline. Stop by our store when you get the chance and
check out the Skyline S9 and other Janome machines new for 2016.
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