{"id":66185,"date":"2025-03-28T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66185"},"modified":"2025-03-26T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T01:07:11","slug":"trying-out-a-juki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/trying-out-a-juki\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying Out a Juki"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am thinking of buying a new sewing machine.<\/p>\n

First, I am going to get my 6600 serviced, of course, but I have had it for ~8 years<\/a> and I have put in a lot of hours on the machine. Kelly<\/a> had it before me for ~7 years. It should last longer.  It is struggling, however, with the thickness of the materials I use when I make bags. Since I don’t think I will stop making bags, I need to see what I can do to fix this situation.<\/p>\n

Cyndi offered me the loan of her Juki<\/a> to try out. While this searching process won’t be quick, I decided to take Cyndi up on her offer while I had the time and the opportunity.<\/p>\n

I have long admired the ease with which Sara, of Sew Sweetness, navigates her bag making on her videos. I am sure she doesn’t put the swearing and problems in the videos, so I have to remember that no machine is a panacea.<\/p>\n

This won’t be a full on review. You can find those in other places on the web. I am just going to share my impressions.<\/p>\n

\"Cyndi's<\/a>
Cyndi’s Juki TL-12QVP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since I had a bag on which to work rather than just a quilt, I spent Saturday trying out Cyndi’s Juki. A lot of people in the guild have Jukis and love them. I have heard a few people have gotten lemons. However, I think that most people love them, but a few people struggle with various problems.<\/p>\n

The machine is a straight stitch only machine, so that is something to consider. I do need to satin stitch\/zigzag for machine applique’ and some zigzag for making bags. I also like using the stitch letters on my Janome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Juki-zipper<\/a>
Juki-zipper tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First of all, I really liked the stitch quality on thick lumps of fabric. I also noticed that the foot stayed relatively even while sewing a zipper tab. This doesn’t happen on my Janome. The foot is at a big angle and I know that makes the machine work harder and more poorly, which, in turn, reduces the quality of the stitch.<\/p>\n

I had a problem with sewing on zipper tabs on the Superbloom. The problem was on the bottom and we couldn’t figure it out. I didn’t think it had anything to do with the number of layers of fabric since I sewed the zipper tab with no problem. I had to do some ripping and left those pieces to work on at home. That is something I’ll need to ask about if I decide on a Juki.<\/p>\n

My 6600 has a large harp, but the Juki’s harp was higher and I noticed that I had more space to maneuver. It was really nice to have some extra vertical space.<\/p>\n

\"Juki<\/a>
Juki – Not 1\/4 inch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the things I have been thinking about is the foot. I like the idea of sometimes being able to use the edge of the foot as a guide without having to use a foot with the lip<\/a> I normally use. In this case, Cyndi’s foot was not exactly 1\/4″, so I couldn’t try that out. She said Juki does have a quarter inch foot. They also have a 1\/4 inch foot with a lip<\/a>, which would be great.<\/p>\n

I was a little surprised by the complicated threading the Juki requires. I was turned off by the need to oil the machine. Cyndi said it was easy, but I don’t know.<\/p>\n

Other than the above, I haven’t looked at any other features or reviews. I’ll gather information and we’ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am thinking of buying a new sewing machine. First, I am going to get my 6600 serviced, of course, but I have had it for ~8 years and I have put in a lot of hours on the machine. Kelly had it before me for ~7 years. It should last longer.  It is struggling, … Continue reading “Trying Out a Juki”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[101,344],"class_list":["post-66185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-sewing-machine","tag-tests"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66185"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66236,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66185\/revisions\/66236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}