Janome Coverpro 2000CPX review

Thank you for sharing your experience and opinion on the Janome Coverpro 2000CPX. I’ve this coverstitch machine as well and have about the same experience as you. Threading is so important (and not only on a coverstitch machine but also on an locker as well as on a regulair sewing machine). I’m very pleased with my Janome Coverpro 2000CPX and until now with some careful pre-work this machine has never let me down.

I have the first, perhaps in this line, the 1000cs and I have had precisely the exact same issues that you’ve had. But on the whole it’s served me well. I got it for a very good price and at the time this is what I could afford. There was a huge thread on Pattern Review that I read from beginning to end and decided that to buy it. The biggest issue I had when I started was that it came from the factory with the presser foot pressure was turned all the way down, which I found out about on the PR thread. I don’t have that soft tight switch that might be a nice thing, but I’ve made a lot of knit tops and pants since I got this machine and on the whole I can’t complain. I hadn’t used it in a few months due to a broken ankle and when I started it up again it skipped stitches. I changed the needles and rethreaded it and that solved my problem. Yes you really do have to thread it precisely or there are issues. But, I had the same issue with my Viking serger and with my new Bernina 740 which is kind of picky as well. All machines need to be threaded precisely in my experience. I had Viking sewing machines for 30 years before I switched recently to Bernina. and they are all different but basically the same in that respect. Back to the Janome. While the Baby Lock is touted as the best home coverstitch, I don’t like that the room to the right of the needle is so narrow. The big advantage to the Janome, is the expansive room to the right of the needle. You can easily make a very deep hem, or as you mentioned make the decorative triple cs anywhere on the garment. I don’t know about you, but I never use the free arm. It’s just not deep enough. On the whole, if this one dies, though I don’t see that happening any time soon, I’d look at the newer Janome. I would definitely not look at a combo machine. Someone mentioned that one of the baby Lock combo machines only takes 5 minutes to change over. Nope, I like the separate machines. One other thing, Baby Lock is advertising how much room to the right of the needle the new machines have. You’d think that they would have figured out that it’s really a pita to not have any room to the right of the needle before now.