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R. Joanne Johnson |
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| I am very happy to own a Janome Memory Craft 10000. I started with the MC8000 in 1992. I used the 8000 for about 5 or 6 years and loved it but always wished there were a way to rotate designs or to mirror or even resize them. I had scanner for the putting my own designs into the 8000but the stitch quality was not very good. The 9000 offered a bit more in the manipulation of design and had a scanner (well, at a price) so that you could scan your line drawings into the computer, do some very 'crude' digitizing and then download them to a card which could then be placed in the machine for design sewing.
Now, the 10000 is here and it is a dream machine. You can check it out here. Janome The image map of the wall hanging has hotspots so that you can click to see details. Just choose the scene you would like to see. When you see the details you will notice some fabric painting. Just the girls, with no surroundings seemed so pointless and so after all that work and thread, I chanced ruining the whole thing by swishing some flowers, sky, trees and grass. I think it helped to get rid of some of the plainness. The thumbnails below that will, when clicked, open another window so that you can see the detail and quality of the stitching. To activate the image map on the quilt, click a square of the quilt. |
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| The hat required a lot of vigilance so that parts of it would not get caught under the needle. Each article of fabric has to be hooped, then the hoop placed on the machine. Doing that with the hat was made easier using an adhesive spray to attach it to the hooped stabilizer(fabric which gives more stability to the fabric being embroidered.) | The three cats on this shirt represent my three: Princess, Cel and Keomi! I did the machine embroidery of the cats and flowers and then used a built in decorative vine stitch. | ||||||||
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This is a large detail and you will notice that I have yet to trim the threads connecting the jumps across the design.
The second design you can notice partially in the upper detail. |
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This is so far a UFO (UnFinished Object). It is fleece from scraps and will be the back of a jacket. The pink cat is an inset of a detail. The other thumbs here will open windows to other jacket details. | ||||||||
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This red tee is a design that I digitized myself using some clip art. Then, choosing a font available to me in Digitizer 10000, I typed in the words (you really need to watch for typos at a time like this!) I wanted, positioned it all and then sent it by USB cable to the machine where it comes up on a computer screen telling about how long it will take to stitch, how many thread changes and the size of the hoop, etc.! I learned the hard way with tee shirts (bunching, puckering, pulling )that a cut away stabilizer (as opposed to a tear away) and placing the shirt on adhesive sprayed, hooped stabilizer also helps. . Of course, I did not get into the fact that marking the fabric so that the design is placed where you want it is another consideration. I have had a few funny things happen! |
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