For Sam: Janome IJ521 Embroidery Machine

This is the Janome IJ521 smart sewing machine.

It's a small embroidery machine that connects to smartphones and tablets, allowing you to select designs and embroider using a dedicated app.

This easy-to-use embroidery machine is now hard to find. I felt it was very important to first get to know embroidery with this machine before doing it professionally.

It's designed mainly for embroidery and is suitable for creating oshi-katsu goods (goods related to supporting your favorite idol/character) and embroidering children's names.

I've actually embroidered names on towels. (In this case, using the placement embroidery method is better to avoid leaving hoop marks on the towel.)

You can also embroider on hoodies and T-shirts.

It comes with various built-in data, and there's also free data available. I used to have someone on Mercari create embroidery data for me.

I often made custom embroidered keychains. I made them to attach to water bottles and bags. Embroidering with silver and gold thread looks great! The ability to embroider kanji characters is very appealing!! You probably can't embroider kanji characters with any other embroidery machine without buying a professional machine that costs hundreds of thousands of yen.

It's sold at electronics retailers and various online shops, with an open price (around 40,000 yen or more).

Accessories include:
Warranty, embroidery hoop, and USB cable. You can use it immediately after linking to Wi-Fi.
The instruction manual is not included, so please search online.