Likewise it's a useful option if you often take your machine to the homes of friend and family to sew with. Janome is a trusted brand that is always a favourite with sewists and this machine will last you years. They mention that it's suitable for light sewing jobs, it performs much the same functions, and is a brilliant machine. Ideal for beginners, occasional sewing, mending fixing, taking to classes and is a perfect starter machine for children.

The biggest drawback for us for this model is that you can't lower the feed dogs, which means you can't use it for freehand quilting or embroidery, but there's plenty of other snazzy things you can do with it to keep you busy.

The Janome 219-S also has 2 handy pull up/push down spool pins for ease of use and safe storage and because there are 2, you can really be creative using twin needles. We are happy to exchange or refund your purchase within 14 days providing the goods are in a fully resaleable condition. I have not used a sewing machine in years although I was very keen on dressmaking in my younger days.

Also thank you to Rita, what a truly lovely lady, it was nice to meet having spoken several times on the phone, also thank you to James who carried machine to my car. There is a printed instruction book with it so it's easy to refer to it when needed rather than having to download instructions online as is often the case these days. In terms of sturdiness of the main machine, we tested sewing at full speed and did vibrate a bit, so there maybe quieter machines out there but this doesn't especially put us off.It comes with 4 different sewing feet and a magnetic presser foot holder, so you can simply change the foot by raising the presser foot and needle, then gently pressing the current foot down to remove, and snapping the new one back in place by lowering the presser foot holder on to it. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. The Janome 219S is a lightweight free-arm sewing machine with a front loading bobbin and a convertible freearm for circular sewing, including 14 built in stitches and a four step buttonhole. This machine will offer you a good, solid range of functions to support your dressmaking, quilting or home sewing. Featuring 14 stitches, 4 step buttonhole, variable stitch length and a number of included accessories.