Upholstery Fabric Lumbar Pillow

Our striking lumbar pillow allows you to bring together a beautiful blend of bold upholstery fabrics with several classic home dรฉcor finishes, like tassels, piping, and button closures. For this project, the goal is to โ€œmix it up!โ€

Velvet Bow Box Tote with Tailored Seams

A smaller tote is a lovely option as a handbag alternative. A softer structure and open top makes it easier to toss in more items than a traditional purse would hold. We used the Janome Bi-Level feet for the flat felled seams and more.

Janome Bi-Level Foot – Now in Left + Right Versions

Sewing is rarely completely flat. Youโ€™re usually working with layers, folds, and dimensional edges. This handy specialty presser foot is precisely engineered to allow you to sew at a consistent width from the fold of a fabric

Janome Workbooks: M7 + 15000 + 9450

If youโ€™re a lucky owner of a Continental M7, MC15000 or MC9450, there is now a Janome Workbook for all THREE models. Each book explores tips, tricks, plus step-by-step instructions and projects to get the most out of your machine.

The Janome Presser Foot Workbook

Ever wonder what to do with that bag oโ€™ extra feet that came with your machine? Janome has tackled this dilemma with their Presser Foot Workbook series, which gives you a working knowledge of their most popular feet.

How to Make a Blind Hem

A blind hem is exactly what it sounds like: a machine-done hem with stitches you can barely see. It’s perfect anywhere you want a clean finished edge. Good news: the specialty Blind Hem presser foot is standard on most machines.

How to Use a Twin or Double Needle

Double the precision in half the time. A twin needle is basically two needles attached to a single shank. One is slightly shorter than the other so your bobbin can catch the thread from both needles. So clever that bobbin!

Six Ways to Machine Stitch a Straight Line

A straight line seems like the most basic sewing technique. But weโ€™re amazed by the number of comments and questions we get about how to do it better, easier, and more consistently. Using the right foot for the job is the real secret.

How to Sew Thick Layers

Layer upon layer upon layer?! With the right presser feet and accessories, an understanding of seam grading, and the patience to go slowly and carefully, you can sew like a pro through thick and thin.

How To Sew On Buttons with a Sewing Machine

Donโ€™t know about you, but we find sewing buttons by hand a bit tedious, time-consuming, and it can be hard to get them all to look uniform. Solution: using a Button Sewing foot on your machine. Securely attached and perfectly aligned.

Janome Sliding Guide Foot

A skosh, a wee bit, just a hair… sometimes, the distances we want to work with when sewing aren’t quite as precise as the engraved inch and millimeter markings on our machines. This foot allows you to custom set your seam.

Janome Ultra Glide Foot + Ultra Glide Needle Plate

Life can get a little sticky. In sewing, itโ€™s the surfaces of specialty fabrics, like laminates that love to drag across your presser foot and/or needle plate, causing stitching to bunch or break. Janome Ultra Glide to the rescue.

How to Make Tiny Tucks with a Quarter Inch Seam Foot

Narrow tucks, called pintucks when they are super narrow, are often used in heirloom sewing, but they can add a lovely detail to many projects. Did you know you can create the look quickly and easily with your Quarter Inch foot?

How to Make a Rolled Hem on a Sewing Machine

There is one particular type of hem we receive more questions about than any other: the rolled hem. Not to be confused with a narrow hem, a rolled hem is created using a special presser foot. Great for edges on lightweight fabrics.

Janome Taping Guide Foot

This clever Janome foot helps you attach tape evenly and smoothly to the edge of your fabric. Adjust it to handle widths from 5mm to 20mm. Use both single fold and double fold binding styles, either tape youโ€™ve made or packaged.

Janome Flower Stitch Attachment

For more basic Janome sewing machines (5mm and 7mm), this a fun, easy way to add little decorative stitch touches in pretty thread colors!ย Be the flower girl of the sewing accessory world, sprinkling pretty posies over any project.

Janome Ribbon Sewing Guide

This Janome accessory allows you to stitch directly on ribbon up to 1″ wide, so you can personalize the color and design of ribbon accents to create a super unique look. Decorative stitching on grosgrain ribbon is especially cute.

Choosing the Right Sewing Machine Needle

New project โ€“ new needle! Itโ€™s an important part of the process because a good needle in your sewing room is like a good knife in your kitchen. Learn the basics about sizes, styles, types, even the anatomy of a needle.

Janome Free Motion Couching Foot Set

There are entire accessory systems to achieve this unique embellishment technique, often referred to as “yarn embroidery.” YOU can do it with a simple change of your Janome presser foot. Itโ€™s like drawing with yarn.

Janome Beading Presser Foot Set

Beads add dimension, texture, and color in one fell swoop. Hand sewing is an option, if you have a few spare days. Machine sewing CAN be like trying to ride your bike over a field of BBsโ€ฆ unless you have this clever presser foot set.

How to Make a Buttonhole on Your Sewing Machine

Buttonholes. For many of us, beads of sweat start to form at the mention of the word. “Am I about to ruin everything by botching the buttonholes?” Nope! Theyโ€™re really not hard once you break it down into individual steps.

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