When making a stitch sequence, you can combine stitches from page I with either page II or page III, not both, and you can’t combine stitches from page II and page III in one sequence.

The stitch patterns on Memory Craft 6000 are found on three pages: front page I which is always present right before your eyes, and two additional pages shown at the top – you can only have one open at a time because the stitch numbers on the top pages are the same.

(Well, except may be for my PDA/phone, to write this blog, to print title pages for my patterns, to read manuals in PDF, to look up sewing-related things on the Internet, to… oh dear!) 😉 I just don’t want screens and computers in my sewing – they are already everywhere else! Sewing is my sanctuary, and computers are not invited. True, but that’s what you’ve got memory cells in your brain for – to remember things, and there’s also pen and paper for backup. To most people the lack of a more informative display is a clear disadvantage because it’s hard to see what you’ve got programmed in your stitch sequence. It just has a two-digit number display to show currently selected stitch, as well as a bunch of LEDs to show other selected bits. This is the last model of the Memory Craft line not to have an LCD display. I still can’t fix it if any of the components fail, but I trust 1986 hardware controls far more than 1986 computers.

🙂 Made in 1986, it has fairly modern reliable electronics, but no fancy graphical parts and no sensor-driven automatic tension that always ends up wrong. But this one has a reputation of being relatively indestructible, so I made an exception. Janome’s Memory Craft 6000 is the only electronically controlled machine in my collection – I usually shun them as I cannot repair electronics.

Janome memory craft 4000 parts