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Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine
Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine
Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine
Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine
Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine
Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine
Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine
Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine
Janome Continental M17 Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery - Meissner Sewing and Vacuum
Janome Continental M17 Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery - Meissner Sewing and Vacuum
Janome Continental M17 Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery - Meissner Sewing and Vacuum
Janome Continental M17 Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery - Meissner Sewing and Vacuum
Janome Continental M17 Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery - Meissner Sewing and Vacuum
Janome Continental M17 Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery - Meissner Sewing and Vacuum
Janome Continental M17 Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery - Meissner Sewing and Vacuum
Used Baby Lock Venture 10-Needle Embroidery Machine - Recertified - Meissner Sewing and Vacuum

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Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine

Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery

Meissner's is proud to introduce Janome's Next Generation Combo machine. Combining the top features of our most decorated machines to maximize your creative potential. The largest sewing area in the industry matched the largest embroidery space. High-Definition Quilting, and the Fastest Sewing speeds, are just a few of the 100 reasons to love this new model. The 10" High-definition color touch screen, plus ergonomically located line of sight screen, make stitch changes and embroidery easy and enjoyable. Introducing new features such as the Thumbwheel function means you can delicately control the needle position to finish those intricate sewing projects. Download the Janome Fact Sheets for full details and features.

Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine

Janome is proud to introduce its next-generation combination sewing and embroidery machine, the Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine. They have merged some of the top features of their most popular machines to maximize your creative potential. The CM17 has the largest sewing area (13.5" x 5.5") in the industry, matched with the largest embroidery space (11.3" x 18.2").

It comes standard with 13 one-step buttonholes, automatic thread tension, 850 built-in stitches, the AcuStitch Regulator, two LCD touchscreens, PC software, a knee lifter, and so much more than can be listed. The dual LCD color touch screens make stitch changes and embroidery easy and enjoyable. Janome has also introduced new features into the Continental M17, like the Thumwheel function, which allows you to control the needle position delicately to finish intricate sewing projects.

The CM17 has over 1,200 built-in embroidery designs and has the industry's largest embroidery hoop area, so it opens up a whole new world of design capabilities. The machine comes with five embroidery hoops to use with the built-in programs. Everything from monogramming to sashiko can be stitched on this machine. Janome original features such as AcuFeed, QuiltBlockAdvisor, and Artistic Digitizer, are also included. Let the Continental M17 take you to the highest level of your creative abilities.

 

 

AcuStitch Regulator (A.S.R.)

A Janome first! The new stitch regulation system comes standard with the CM17 and includes four feet: closed-toe, open-toe, clear view, and the exclusive Ruler Work foot so that all of your free-motion needs are covered. With the added benefit of being able to set the sensitivity of the sensor, you can adjust the regulation as your skills develop.

AcuFeed Flex Fabric Plus

AcuFeed Flex Fabric Plus

Janome's AcuFeed Layered Fabric Feeding System has long been legendary in the sewing and quilting world for its exceptional precision and power. They've taken it to the next level with AcuFeed Flex Plus. The system is still removable, but adding and removing it from the machine has become more advanced, adding another layer of reliability and control. After attaching the AcuFeed foot, touch the AcuFeed icon on your screen to engage or disengage the dedicated motor explicitly designed for this feature!

Dual LCD Screens

Dual LCD Screens

Fine-tune stitches and functions while keeping your hands close to the needle. The large main screen is simple and easy to navigate, with the look of a smart device, with icons and category selection scroll bars; plus, you can edit, design, and create. Then, when you're ready to sew or embroider, the second screen will allow you to fine-tune your stitches, tension, foot pressure, and more! The large screen measures 5.3" by 8.5" while the smaller screen measures 3.8" by 2.1".

Professional Grade Feet & Needleplates

Professional Grade Feet & Needle Plates

Utilize these narrow-gauge industrial-type feet for curves and precise topstitching. They provide excellent ease of control and superior visibility. They are sized perfectly for creating 1/4" seams, achieving accurate stitches, and perfect starts on any type of fabric.

Built-in Storage

Built-in Storage

Hidden in the extension table arms on the embroidery bed are convenient storage bins. Perfect for storing needle plates, threads, bobbins, or anything else you’d like to have handy while sewing.

 

 

Built-in Embroidery Designs

1,230 built-in embroidery designs are standard, including Designer Collections, ten embroidery fonts, and In-the-Hoop projects that will keep you engaged and creative for hours. In addition, the included Embroidery Link app will allow you to customize and edit those same designs, adding and removing elements to create one-of-a-kind embroidery that your whole family will enjoy. With so many standard stitches and embroidery designs, your creativity is unlimited!

 

Apps

Apps

Your options to learn about and use the CM17 are limitless. Use the interactive AcuAssist to become proficient with its intuitive and vast features. With Embroidery Link, you can resize, redesign, and lay out embroidery without sitting at your machine. And, with AcuSetter, AcuSketch, and the Screensaver app, you can take the personalization of your machine and embroidery capabilities to the next level.

Extra-Large Embroidery Field

Extra-Large Embroidery Field

Our largest hoops and embroidery area ever! Our RE46d Hoop offers 11.3” x 18.2” of the embroidery area. Created with Carbon fiber-infused plastic, this large hoop is 10X stronger than metal! No other machine can offer such a large area and guarantee the stability and precision of Janome embroidery, even when embroidering at speeds up to 1200spm. Four included hoops have been created with a new easy-to-hoop lever system and hoop size detection.

Embroidery Positioning Marker

Embroidery Positioning Marker

Using the newest embroidery foot from Janome, the laser aligning feature can show the position of your needle on the fabric below. This feature lets you see exactly where your needle will strike before stitching begins for extreme precision. Perfect for designs that need to be placed in precisely the correct position. Use the laser with the baste function to ensure your design is exactly where you want it to be.

Sewing Applications Menu

Sewing Applications Menu

The Sewing Applications Menu walks you through common sewing techniques like seaming, hemming, patchwork, gathering, pintucks, and more. It automatically chooses the ideal settings and suggests the correct foot and needle plate for the task. If you have any questions, click the ‘?’ bubble, and it will walk you through the technique.

91 Needle Positions

The Continental M17 offers an unbelievable 91 needle positions. This allows for more detail in decorative stitches and incredible fine adjustments in all stitch creations. And with the 9mm stitch width, this sort of bold detail can be easily appreciated.

 

 

Large Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Workspace

CM17 Workspace

The seamless, heavy-duty powder-coated, all-metal flatbed offers an uninterrupted, large sewing area with 13.5 inches (343mm) to the right of the needle. With a 5.51-inch (140mm) workspace height and 3.15" of space above the needle plate, you'll complete any sewing project with ease.

 

Automatic Built-in Needle Threader

Threading couldn't be easier! Load your thread into the easily viewable guides, push the threader button, release it, and your needle is threaded. This time-saving feature allows you to get sewing faster. Its advanced design feeds the thread through the eye of the needle with precise accuracy every time.

Optical Bobbin Sensor

Optical Bobbin Sensor

Janome's advanced Optical Bobbin Monitoring System is for everyone who has sewn a long seam only to find that your bobbin thread ran out after the first few inches. Janome Technology allows the M17 to constantly watch your bobbin thread supply while sewing so that you will receive a warning as soon as the bobbin thread gets low, not when it's too late at the end of your seam. It is sometimes difficult to track how much bobbin thread is left when embroidering or sewing large projects. The bobbin thread sensor alerts you when your bobbin thread is running low, so you're never caught in the middle of a seam or embroidery color.

One-Touch Buttons

One-Touch Buttons

Equipped with convenient one-touch buttons, you will find the following options along the front of the machine: needle up/down, automatic thread cutter, lock stitch, start/stop, speed control slider, reverse stitch, presser foot lift, and a needle threader. With these buttons, you can raise or lower the needle, prevent your stitches from coming undone, use them in place of a foot control, and much more.

850 Built-in Stitches

850 Built-in Stitches

The Continental M17 includes an amazing array of built-in stitches and embroidery designs. You'll find 850 built-in stitches, including 13 different styles of buttonholes (and with Stitch Composer, your stitch count is infinite). All these stitches are arranged in 17 categories so they are easier to find: applique, cross-stitch, heirloom, quilting, quilt Style, satin, bridge, decorative, botanical, long, animals, lifestyle, kids, seasons, words, mirage, created. Three fonts provide variety for decorative stitch monogramming.

Variable Zigzag

Variable Zigzag

The Continental M17 includes an excellent tool for creativity: Variable Zig Zag. This feature enables precision control over the stitch width via the knee lift. Begin with a straight stitch; then, press against the knee lifter to widen your stitch to a 9mm zig-zag while the machine is still running. Release pressure to return to a straight stitch for a tapered finish gradually. Don't want a 9mm stitch? You can easily control the maximum width of the stitch setting in the machine set mode. This advanced control opens incredible new possibilities for creative expression with free-motion quilting, thread painting, raw edge applique, free-motion monogramming, and more.

 

 

Embroidery Banner

 

 

9 Ultra-Bright LEDs

9 Ultra-Bright LEDs

The CM17 features nine ultra-bright LED lights in four locations to illuminate the bed of the machine, providing a dazzling work area. For even more focus, the machine includes three special magnifying glasses at three levels of magnification that attach directly to the faceplate. They slide into place for extra visibility and store out of your way when not in use. This system reduces eye strain and allows you to sew for hours in comfort!

Ruler Work Mode

Ruler Work Mode

Expand your quilting options and take advantage of the vast array of precision templates on the market for ruler-guided quilting. Engage the Ruler Work foot to follow along the guiding edge of precision cut templates safely. Achieve beautiful and consistent quilting results previously only available to longarm quilters.

Independent Bobbin Winding Motor

Independent Bobbin Winding Motor

With an independent bobbin motor, there is no need to stop your sewing or unthread your machine. Set up your bobbin, push the Bobbin Winding button, and keep sewing your seams while the machine simultaneously winds your bobbin. This is a great timing-saving feature!

Floating Mode

Floating Mode

While in floating mode, the Continental M17 will not extend full pressure to the presser foot while feeding fabric. This will protect delicate or high-pile fabrics like velvet.

Ergonomic Knee Lifter

Ergonomic Knee Lifter

The knee lift has been designed to make it ergonomic and adjustable to accommodate almost any size or height sewists. You can now sit directly in front of the needle with the knee lift perfectly positioned for free-motion quilting, variable zig-zag, or general sewing. It can be inserted directly into the machine base or the embroidery unit if it is used as an expanded sewing machine table.

 

 

CM17 Included Accessories

Included Accessories

Zigzag Foot A, Couching Foot PC-1, Couching Foot PC-2, Rolled Hem Foot D, Zipper Foot E, CONCEAL® Zipper Foot Z, Satin Stitch Foot F, Open Toe Satin Stitch Foot F2, Blind Hemming Foot G, Professional Grade Foot HP, Overcasting Foot M, 1/4˝ Seam Foot O, 1/4˝ Seam Foot without guide O, Embroidery Foot P, Positioning Marker Embroidery Foot PM, Darning Foot PD-H, Open-toe Darning Foot PD-H, Free Motion Quilting Closed-toe Foot QC, Free Motion Quilting Open-toe Foot QO, Free Motion Quilting Zigzag Foot QV, Ruler Work Foot QR, Variable Zigzag Open-toe Foot QZ, Automatic Buttonhole Foot R, Stabilizer Plate for Buttonhole Ft, Button Sewing Foot T, Button Shank Plate, Accurate Stitch Regulator, ASR Closed-toe Foot ASR-QC, ASR Clear-view Foot ASR-QV, ASR Open-toe Foot ASR-QO ,ASR Ruler Work Foot ASR-QR, AcuFeed Dual Holder (twin), AcuFeed Dual Foot AD (twin), AcuFeed Dual Open Toe Foot UD (twin), AcuFeed Dual Quilt Piecing Foot OD (twin), AcuFeed Dual Ditch Quilting Foot SD (twin), AcuFeed Professional Grade Foot HP2, AcuFeed Dual Holder (single), AcuFeed Dual Foot VD (single), AcuFeed Dual Zipper Foot ED (single), Regular Needle Plate, Straight Stitch Needle Plate, Professional Grade Needle Plate HP, Optic Magnifier 20, Optic Magnifier 40, Optic Magnifier 60, Embroidery Hoop RE46d 280 x 460, Embroidery Hoop SQ28d 280 x 280, Embroidery Hoop RE20d 140 x 200, Embroidery Hoop SQ10d 100 x 100, Magnetic Clamps x 8 (RE46d & SQ28d), Special Bobbin Holder for embroidery, Bobbin Thread for Embroidery, Felt (320 x 320), Felt (500 x 620), Stabilizer (320 x 320), Stabilizer (500 x 620), 5 x Janome Plastic Bobbins, Needle Set, Lint Brush, Embroidery Scissors, Screwdriver, Seam Ripper, Quilting Guide Bar, Yarn Guide, Spool Holder (large) x 2, Spool Holder (small) x 2, Spool Holder (special) x 2, Spool Rest x 2, Net x 2, Sub Thread Guide Stick, Adjustable Knee Lifter, Touch Panel Stylus, Cloth Guide, Bobbin Holder Cleaner, At a Glance Stitch Charts, Quick Start Guide, Threading Guide Sticker, Protective Sticker, Protective Sticker Instruction, Power Cable, USB Cable, Large Foot Control, Thread Cutter Switch, Semi-hard Fabric Machine Cover, Accessory Case

 

 

Retractable Spool Pins

Easy Open Top Cover

 

Magnetic Storage


Computerized Needleplate Conversion

 

Thumbwheel

Stitch Editing on the Second Screen

 

Janome Warranty Banner

Janome America, Inc. will ensure your machine's performance for 25 years from when the machine is purchased. Coverage is limited to repair or necessary replacement of parts caused by defects in quality and materials. Faults in electrical components will be for five years. One year of free labor by an Authorized Janome Retailer is included, usually by the dealership where you purchased your machine. 

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13.5" throat space

Sewing, quilting, embroidery combo

850 built in stitches

1230 built in embroidery designs

Automatic needle threader

1300 spm

Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine

Janome is proud to introduce its next-generation combination sewing and embroidery machine, the Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine. They have merged some of the top features of their most popular machines to maximize your creative potential. The CM17 has the largest sewing area (13.5" x 5.5") in the industry, matched with the largest embroidery space (11.3" x 18.2").

It comes standard with 13 one-step buttonholes, automatic thread tension, 850 built-in stitches, the AcuStitch Regulator, two LCD touchscreens, PC software, a knee lifter, and so much more than can be listed. The dual LCD color touch screens make stitch changes and embroidery easy and enjoyable. Janome has also introduced new features into the Continental M17, like the Thumwheel function, which allows you to control the needle position delicately to finish intricate sewing projects.

The CM17 has over 1,200 built-in embroidery designs and has the industry's largest embroidery hoop area, so it opens up a whole new world of design capabilities. The machine comes with five embroidery hoops to use with the built-in programs. Everything from monogramming to sashiko can be stitched on this machine. Janome original features such as AcuFeed, QuiltBlockAdvisor, and Artistic Digitizer, are also included. Let the Continental M17 take you to the highest level of your creative abilities.

 

 

AcuStitch Regulator (A.S.R.)

A Janome first! The new stitch regulation system comes standard with the CM17 and includes four feet: closed-toe, open-toe, clear view, and the exclusive Ruler Work foot so that all of your free-motion needs are covered. With the added benefit of being able to set the sensitivity of the sensor, you can adjust the regulation as your skills develop.

AcuFeed Flex Fabric Plus

AcuFeed Flex Fabric Plus

Janome's AcuFeed Layered Fabric Feeding System has long been legendary in the sewing and quilting world for its exceptional precision and power. They've taken it to the next level with AcuFeed Flex Plus. The system is still removable, but adding and removing it from the machine has become more advanced, adding another layer of reliability and control. After attaching the AcuFeed foot, touch the AcuFeed icon on your screen to engage or disengage the dedicated motor explicitly designed for this feature!

Dual LCD Screens

Dual LCD Screens

Fine-tune stitches and functions while keeping your hands close to the needle. The large main screen is simple and easy to navigate, with the look of a smart device, with icons and category selection scroll bars; plus, you can edit, design, and create. Then, when you're ready to sew or embroider, the second screen will allow you to fine-tune your stitches, tension, foot pressure, and more! The large screen measures 5.3" by 8.5" while the smaller screen measures 3.8" by 2.1".

Professional Grade Feet & Needleplates

Professional Grade Feet & Needle Plates

Utilize these narrow-gauge industrial-type feet for curves and precise topstitching. They provide excellent ease of control and superior visibility. They are sized perfectly for creating 1/4" seams, achieving accurate stitches, and perfect starts on any type of fabric.

Built-in Storage

Built-in Storage

Hidden in the extension table arms on the embroidery bed are convenient storage bins. Perfect for storing needle plates, threads, bobbins, or anything else you’d like to have handy while sewing.

 

 

Built-in Embroidery Designs

1,230 built-in embroidery designs are standard, including Designer Collections, ten embroidery fonts, and In-the-Hoop projects that will keep you engaged and creative for hours. In addition, the included Embroidery Link app will allow you to customize and edit those same designs, adding and removing elements to create one-of-a-kind embroidery that your whole family will enjoy. With so many standard stitches and embroidery designs, your creativity is unlimited!

 

Apps

Apps

Your options to learn about and use the CM17 are limitless. Use the interactive AcuAssist to become proficient with its intuitive and vast features. With Embroidery Link, you can resize, redesign, and lay out embroidery without sitting at your machine. And, with AcuSetter, AcuSketch, and the Screensaver app, you can take the personalization of your machine and embroidery capabilities to the next level.

Extra-Large Embroidery Field

Extra-Large Embroidery Field

Our largest hoops and embroidery area ever! Our RE46d Hoop offers 11.3” x 18.2” of the embroidery area. Created with Carbon fiber-infused plastic, this large hoop is 10X stronger than metal! No other machine can offer such a large area and guarantee the stability and precision of Janome embroidery, even when embroidering at speeds up to 1200spm. Four included hoops have been created with a new easy-to-hoop lever system and hoop size detection.

Embroidery Positioning Marker

Embroidery Positioning Marker

Using the newest embroidery foot from Janome, the laser aligning feature can show the position of your needle on the fabric below. This feature lets you see exactly where your needle will strike before stitching begins for extreme precision. Perfect for designs that need to be placed in precisely the correct position. Use the laser with the baste function to ensure your design is exactly where you want it to be.

Sewing Applications Menu

Sewing Applications Menu

The Sewing Applications Menu walks you through common sewing techniques like seaming, hemming, patchwork, gathering, pintucks, and more. It automatically chooses the ideal settings and suggests the correct foot and needle plate for the task. If you have any questions, click the ‘?’ bubble, and it will walk you through the technique.

91 Needle Positions

The Continental M17 offers an unbelievable 91 needle positions. This allows for more detail in decorative stitches and incredible fine adjustments in all stitch creations. And with the 9mm stitch width, this sort of bold detail can be easily appreciated.

 

 

Large Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Workspace

CM17 Workspace

The seamless, heavy-duty powder-coated, all-metal flatbed offers an uninterrupted, large sewing area with 13.5 inches (343mm) to the right of the needle. With a 5.51-inch (140mm) workspace height and 3.15" of space above the needle plate, you'll complete any sewing project with ease.

 

Automatic Built-in Needle Threader

Threading couldn't be easier! Load your thread into the easily viewable guides, push the threader button, release it, and your needle is threaded. This time-saving feature allows you to get sewing faster. Its advanced design feeds the thread through the eye of the needle with precise accuracy every time.

Optical Bobbin Sensor

Optical Bobbin Sensor

Janome's advanced Optical Bobbin Monitoring System is for everyone who has sewn a long seam only to find that your bobbin thread ran out after the first few inches. Janome Technology allows the M17 to constantly watch your bobbin thread supply while sewing so that you will receive a warning as soon as the bobbin thread gets low, not when it's too late at the end of your seam. It is sometimes difficult to track how much bobbin thread is left when embroidering or sewing large projects. The bobbin thread sensor alerts you when your bobbin thread is running low, so you're never caught in the middle of a seam or embroidery color.

One-Touch Buttons

One-Touch Buttons

Equipped with convenient one-touch buttons, you will find the following options along the front of the machine: needle up/down, automatic thread cutter, lock stitch, start/stop, speed control slider, reverse stitch, presser foot lift, and a needle threader. With these buttons, you can raise or lower the needle, prevent your stitches from coming undone, use them in place of a foot control, and much more.

850 Built-in Stitches

850 Built-in Stitches

The Continental M17 includes an amazing array of built-in stitches and embroidery designs. You'll find 850 built-in stitches, including 13 different styles of buttonholes (and with Stitch Composer, your stitch count is infinite). All these stitches are arranged in 17 categories so they are easier to find: applique, cross-stitch, heirloom, quilting, quilt Style, satin, bridge, decorative, botanical, long, animals, lifestyle, kids, seasons, words, mirage, created. Three fonts provide variety for decorative stitch monogramming.

Variable Zigzag

Variable Zigzag

The Continental M17 includes an excellent tool for creativity: Variable Zig Zag. This feature enables precision control over the stitch width via the knee lift. Begin with a straight stitch; then, press against the knee lifter to widen your stitch to a 9mm zig-zag while the machine is still running. Release pressure to return to a straight stitch for a tapered finish gradually. Don't want a 9mm stitch? You can easily control the maximum width of the stitch setting in the machine set mode. This advanced control opens incredible new possibilities for creative expression with free-motion quilting, thread painting, raw edge applique, free-motion monogramming, and more.

 

 

Embroidery Banner

 

 

9 Ultra-Bright LEDs

9 Ultra-Bright LEDs

The CM17 features nine ultra-bright LED lights in four locations to illuminate the bed of the machine, providing a dazzling work area. For even more focus, the machine includes three special magnifying glasses at three levels of magnification that attach directly to the faceplate. They slide into place for extra visibility and store out of your way when not in use. This system reduces eye strain and allows you to sew for hours in comfort!

Ruler Work Mode

Ruler Work Mode

Expand your quilting options and take advantage of the vast array of precision templates on the market for ruler-guided quilting. Engage the Ruler Work foot to follow along the guiding edge of precision cut templates safely. Achieve beautiful and consistent quilting results previously only available to longarm quilters.

Independent Bobbin Winding Motor

Independent Bobbin Winding Motor

With an independent bobbin motor, there is no need to stop your sewing or unthread your machine. Set up your bobbin, push the Bobbin Winding button, and keep sewing your seams while the machine simultaneously winds your bobbin. This is a great timing-saving feature!

Floating Mode

Floating Mode

While in floating mode, the Continental M17 will not extend full pressure to the presser foot while feeding fabric. This will protect delicate or high-pile fabrics like velvet.

Ergonomic Knee Lifter

Ergonomic Knee Lifter

The knee lift has been designed to make it ergonomic and adjustable to accommodate almost any size or height sewists. You can now sit directly in front of the needle with the knee lift perfectly positioned for free-motion quilting, variable zig-zag, or general sewing. It can be inserted directly into the machine base or the embroidery unit if it is used as an expanded sewing machine table.

 

 

CM17 Included Accessories

Included Accessories

Zigzag Foot A, Couching Foot PC-1, Couching Foot PC-2, Rolled Hem Foot D, Zipper Foot E, CONCEAL® Zipper Foot Z, Satin Stitch Foot F, Open Toe Satin Stitch Foot F2, Blind Hemming Foot G, Professional Grade Foot HP, Overcasting Foot M, 1/4˝ Seam Foot O, 1/4˝ Seam Foot without guide O, Embroidery Foot P, Positioning Marker Embroidery Foot PM, Darning Foot PD-H, Open-toe Darning Foot PD-H, Free Motion Quilting Closed-toe Foot QC, Free Motion Quilting Open-toe Foot QO, Free Motion Quilting Zigzag Foot QV, Ruler Work Foot QR, Variable Zigzag Open-toe Foot QZ, Automatic Buttonhole Foot R, Stabilizer Plate for Buttonhole Ft, Button Sewing Foot T, Button Shank Plate, Accurate Stitch Regulator, ASR Closed-toe Foot ASR-QC, ASR Clear-view Foot ASR-QV, ASR Open-toe Foot ASR-QO ,ASR Ruler Work Foot ASR-QR, AcuFeed Dual Holder (twin), AcuFeed Dual Foot AD (twin), AcuFeed Dual Open Toe Foot UD (twin), AcuFeed Dual Quilt Piecing Foot OD (twin), AcuFeed Dual Ditch Quilting Foot SD (twin), AcuFeed Professional Grade Foot HP2, AcuFeed Dual Holder (single), AcuFeed Dual Foot VD (single), AcuFeed Dual Zipper Foot ED (single), Regular Needle Plate, Straight Stitch Needle Plate, Professional Grade Needle Plate HP, Optic Magnifier 20, Optic Magnifier 40, Optic Magnifier 60, Embroidery Hoop RE46d 280 x 460, Embroidery Hoop SQ28d 280 x 280, Embroidery Hoop RE20d 140 x 200, Embroidery Hoop SQ10d 100 x 100, Magnetic Clamps x 8 (RE46d & SQ28d), Special Bobbin Holder for embroidery, Bobbin Thread for Embroidery, Felt (320 x 320), Felt (500 x 620), Stabilizer (320 x 320), Stabilizer (500 x 620), 5 x Janome Plastic Bobbins, Needle Set, Lint Brush, Embroidery Scissors, Screwdriver, Seam Ripper, Quilting Guide Bar, Yarn Guide, Spool Holder (large) x 2, Spool Holder (small) x 2, Spool Holder (special) x 2, Spool Rest x 2, Net x 2, Sub Thread Guide Stick, Adjustable Knee Lifter, Touch Panel Stylus, Cloth Guide, Bobbin Holder Cleaner, At a Glance Stitch Charts, Quick Start Guide, Threading Guide Sticker, Protective Sticker, Protective Sticker Instruction, Power Cable, USB Cable, Large Foot Control, Thread Cutter Switch, Semi-hard Fabric Machine Cover, Accessory Case

 

 

Retractable Spool Pins

Easy Open Top Cover

 

Magnetic Storage


Computerized Needleplate Conversion

 

Thumbwheel

Stitch Editing on the Second Screen

 

Janome Warranty Banner

Janome America, Inc. will ensure your machine's performance for 25 years from when the machine is purchased. Coverage is limited to repair or necessary replacement of parts caused by defects in quality and materials. Faults in electrical components will be for five years. One year of free labor by an Authorized Janome Retailer is included, usually by the dealership where you purchased your machine. 

Janome Continental M17 Professional Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery Machine

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  • AcuStitch Regulator (A.S.R.) - A Janome first! Our new stitch regulation system comes standard with the CM17 and includes four feet; closed toe, open-toe, clear view and the exclusive Ruler Work foot, so that all of your free-motion needs are covered. With the added benefit of being able to set the sensitivity of the sensor.
  • AcuFeed Flex Plus - Our AcuFeed Layered Fabric Feeding System has long been legendary in the sewing and quilting world for its amazing precision and power. We’ve taken it to the next level with AcuFeed Flex Plus. The system is still removable but, adding and removing it from the machine has become more advanced - adding another layer of reliability and control. After attaching the AcuFeed foot, simply touch the AcuFeed icon on your screen to engage or disengage the dedicated motor designed specifically for this feature! AcuFeed Flex comes in three useful options. The two-pronged AcuFeed feet advances fabric flawlessly from the top and bottom. Use this system for quilting, seaming, and traditional sewing. Our special one-pronged AcuFeed feet give precise control for more detailed work, like installing zippers and matching seams. And, our HP2 AcuFeed foot is designed to work with our HP plate, for the highest level of stitch results.
  • Professional Grade Needleplate, HP foot & HP2 foot Utilize these narrow gauge industrial type feet for curves and precise top-stitching. They provide great ease of control and superior visibility. Sized perfectly for creating 1/4” seams, achieve accurate stitches and perfect starts on any type of fabric.
  • Ample Work Area - and Ergonomic Design The seamless, heavy-duty, powder-coated, all metal flatbed offers an uninterrupted, large sewing area with 13.5 inches (343mm) to the right of the needle. With a 5.51 inch (140mm) workspace height and 3.15” of space above the needle plate you’ll complete any sewing project with ease.
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