274 built-in designs
Explore floral, children’s, redwork, whitework, appliqué, lace, cross-stitch, name-tag, in-the-hoop and everyday embroidery categories.
Compact computerised embroidery machine
Janome Memory Craft 100E
Personalise clothing, gifts and home décor with beautiful Janome embroidery. The Memory Craft 100E combines 274 built-in designs, a generous 140mm square hoop, advanced on-screen editing, USB design import and genuine free-arm embroidery capability in one compact, dedicated embroidery machine.
140 × 140mm
maximum embroidery area
274
built-in embroidery designs
660 SPM
maximum embroidery speed
3.5-inch
colour touchscreen
Your compact embroidery specialist
Everything you need to begin creating personalised embroidery
The Memory Craft 100E is designed for makers who want the creativity of computerised machine embroidery without the size or complexity of a larger sewing-and-embroidery combination machine.
It is completely dedicated to embroidery, giving you a purpose-built platform for embellishing garments, children’s clothing, bags, quilt blocks, towels, labels, gifts, home décor and accessories.
The built-in embroidery arm swings out from behind the machine when required and folds neatly away afterwards. This keeps the machine compact for transport and storage while still providing a useful 140mm × 140mm maximum embroidery area.
New Zealand and Australian package
Ready to embroider with the full-size SQ14e hoop included
The regional package includes the largest hoop supported by the machine, together with the essential tools required to begin embroidery.
- SQ14e 140 × 140mm hoop
- Embroidery Foot P
- Four genuine Janome bobbins
- Standard bobbin holder
- Special embroidery bobbin holder
- Needle set
- Embroidery scissors
- Touchscreen stylus
- Bobbin-holder cleaner
- Threading-guide sticker
- Hard-copy instruction manual
- Janome-branded soft cover
Advanced embroidery features made approachable
140mm square embroidery field
The included SQ14e hoop provides a practical embroidery area for names, motifs, quilt blocks, patches, labels and decorative projects.
Advanced on-screen editing
Resize, rotate, flip, combine, duplicate, group, zoom and recolour embroidery designs directly on the machine.
USB design import
Transfer compatible embroidery designs using a USB flash drive and save additional patterns to the machine’s built-in memory.
Free-arm embroidery
Add the optional free-arm hoops to embroider finished tubular items such as sleeves, trouser legs, socks and baby clothing.
Optical bobbin monitoring
The machine continuously monitors the bobbin supply and pauses with an on-screen warning when the thread is running low.
Automatic jump-thread trimming
Reduce manual finishing by allowing the machine to trim suitable jump threads automatically during embroidery.
Superior Needle Threader 2
Janome’s refined needle-threading system guides the upper thread through the eye of the needle quickly and accurately.
Compact by design
A built-in embroidery arm that swings neatly into position
Rather than attaching a large embroidery unit to the side of the machine, the Memory Craft 100E stores its embroidery arm behind the machine.
Release the arm and swing it into position when you are ready to embroider. When your project is complete, it folds back behind the machine for carrying and storage.
This creates a smaller overall footprint while keeping the embroidery system permanently available and correctly aligned.
Creativity built into the machine
274 embroidery designs across 18 categories
Begin creating without purchasing additional designs. The built-in collection covers a broad range of projects, styles and techniques.
- Floral and garden designs
- Baby and children’s motifs
- Everyday and holiday designs
- Redwork embroidery
- Whitework embroidery
- Cross-stitch motifs
- Appliqué designs
- Embroidery lace
- Fringe embroidery
- Name-tag designs
- In-the-hoop projects
- Decorative alphabet motifs
Built-in lettering and monogramming
Add names, dates, initials and personal messages directly from the touchscreen without creating the lettering in external software.
Eleven English fonts
Choose from traditional, modern, script, block and speciality lettering styles.
Additional character sets
The regional machine also includes three Russian and three Japanese font selections.
Two-letter monograms
Create balanced two-initial layouts directly from the built-in monogramming menu.
Three-letter monograms
Build traditional three-letter monograms for towels, bags, garments and gifts.
Curved lettering
Arrange suitable lettering in an arc to follow badges, circles and decorative motifs.
Border designs
Create repeating decorative arrangements using the built-in border design collection.
Create directly on the machine
3.5-inch high-definition colour touchscreen
Browse designs, add lettering, change thread colours and adjust your layout on the bright colour touchscreen.
Editing controls are presented in a clear, icon-based format, with the supplied stylus providing accurate selection and positioning.
- Resize from approximately 80% to 120%
- Rotate embroidery designs
- Flip designs horizontally
- Combine multiple designs
- Duplicate design elements
- Group selected objects
- Zoom for closer positioning
- Change displayed thread colours
- Single-colour embroidery mode
- Adjust hoop position
Simpler project preparation
An easier hoop-tightening system
The SQ14e hoop uses a lever-assisted tightening mechanism with open, adjustment and locked positions.
Leave the lever fully open while positioning the fabric and stabiliser. Move it to the intermediate position for final alignment, then close it completely to secure the project.
The traditional tightening screw remains available for fine adjustment, helping you achieve firm hooping without unnecessary fabric distortion.
One standard hoop and three optional sizes
The full-size SQ14e hoop is supplied with the machine. Smaller optional hoops can reduce stabiliser waste and improve control when embroidering compact designs or finished tubular items.
SQ14e
140 × 140mm
Included with machine
Included with machine
SQ10e
100 × 100mm
Optional square hoop
Optional square hoop
FA10e
100 × 40mm
Optional free-arm hoop
Optional free-arm hoop
FA5e
50 × 50mm
Optional free-arm hoop
Optional free-arm hoop
Embroider difficult finished items
Genuine free-arm embroidery capability
Many home embroidery machines require sleeves, trouser legs or baby garments to be opened at a seam before they can be laid flat in a hoop.
The MC100E’s optional FA10e and FA5e hoops allow suitable tubular items to slide around the free arm, helping you embroider finished garments without dismantling them first.
This makes the machine especially useful for children’s clothing, narrow sleeves, cuffs, socks, small pockets and other compact finished projects.
Import compatible embroidery designs through USB
Transfer compatible embroidery files from a computer to a USB flash drive, insert it into the machine and open the design from the touchscreen.
The New Zealand and Australian model supports USB flash drives up to 16GB. Designs must use a compatible format, fit within the selected hoop and remain within the machine’s stitch-count limits.
- Single USB port
- USB flash drives up to 16GB
- Janome JEF and JEF+ design support
- JPX design support
- Up to 200,000 stitches per design
- Approximately 2MB built-in memory
- Adjustable hoop positioning
- Flexible stitch travel
Fewer interrupted stitch-outs
Automatic thread management and monitoring
The Memory Craft 100E monitors both the upper and bobbin threads while embroidery is running.
If the upper thread breaks, the machine stops and allows you to move backwards through the design before restarting. The optical bobbin sensor monitors the lower thread supply and warns you when it is nearly empty.
Suitable jump threads can be trimmed automatically, while the automatic thread cutter cuts the top and bobbin threads together at the end of a design.
- Upper-thread break sensor
- Optical bobbin sensor
- Automatic jump-thread trimming
- Automatic return after thread break
- Automatic upper and bobbin cutter
- Adjustable embroidery speed
Quick and reliable preparation
Superior Needle Threader 2
Follow the clearly marked threading route, position the thread in the needle-threader guide and lower the lever.
Release the mechanism and the thread is guided through the eye of the embroidery needle, helping you prepare the machine quickly between colour changes.
The top-loading Easy Set Bobbin path also includes a built-in cutting blade for straightforward lower-thread preparation.
Support at your fingertips
Scan QR codes for useful machine guidance
The MC100E can display QR codes that connect a compatible phone or tablet to supporting Janome information.
Available resources can include machine guidance, instructional videos, embroidery design references and icon explanations.
A complete hard-copy instruction manual is also supplied with the New Zealand and Australian machine.
Compatible with embroidery couching and cutwork
Embroidery couching
Add the optional couching foot and use compatible designs to secure yarn across fabric, creating textured and dimensional embroidery.
Cutwork embroidery
The optional cutwork kit replaces the ordinary needle with specialist cutting needles to create patches, appliqué pieces and decorative cutwork.
Artistic Digitizer
Optional Janome Artistic Digitizer software lets you create and edit original embroidery designs on compatible Windows and Mac computers.
AcuStitch
Optional Windows software provides another route for organising, editing and transferring compatible embroidery designs.
A versatile embroidery machine for personalisation and small creative production
Names and monograms
Children’s clothing
Baby gifts
Quilt blocks
Towels and linen
Bags and pouches
Garment embellishment
Patches and badges
Name tags
In-the-hoop projects
Home décor
Small creative businesses
Important information before purchasing
The Memory Craft 100E is an embroidery-only machine. It does not sew ordinary construction seams, buttonholes or decorative sewing-machine stitches outside embroidery mode.
The maximum embroidery area is 140 × 140mm. Designs larger than this must be resized, split using suitable embroidery software or created on a machine with a larger embroidery field.
Free-arm embroidery requires the optional FA10e or FA5e hoop. The extra-wide table, digitising software, couching foot and cutwork equipment are also optional purchases.
Official Janome Memory Craft 100E overview
Explore the machine’s compact embroidery arm, touchscreen, hooping system and principal embroidery features in Janome’s official overview.
Janome Memory Craft 100E standard accessories
Embroidery hoop and machine equipment
- SQ14e embroidery hoop, 140 × 140mm
- SQ14e hoop template
- Metal Embroidery Foot P
- Standard bobbin holder fitted in the machine
- Special embroidery bobbin holder for alternative bobbin thread
- Single-hole embroidery needle plate
- Touch-panel stylus
- Embroidery scissors
- Bobbin-holder cleaner
Bobbins, needles and threading accessories
- Four genuine Janome plastic bobbins
- Needle set
- Additional spool pin
- Large spool holders × 2
- Small spool holders × 2
- Screwdriver
- Lint brush
- Threading-guide sticker
Manuals, reference material and cover
- Hard-copy instruction manual
- Downloadable built-in design chart
- Official instructional video resources
- Power cable
- Janome-branded soft machine cover
Janome Memory Craft 100E specifications
| Machine type | Dedicated single-needle computerised embroidery machine |
|---|---|
| Maximum embroidery area | 140 × 140mm |
| Standard embroidery hoop | SQ14e 140 × 140mm hoop and template |
| Built-in embroidery designs | 274 designs arranged across 18 categories |
| English embroidery fonts | 11 |
| Additional regional fonts | Three Russian and three Japanese font selections |
| Monogramming | Two-letter and three-letter monograms, lettering, emblems and border designs |
| Maximum embroidery speed | Up to 660 stitches per minute |
| Adjustable embroidery speed | Yes, approximately 400 to 660 stitches per minute |
| Maximum stitches per design | 200,000 |
| Machine screen | 3.5-inch high-definition colour LCD touchscreen |
| On-screen editing | Resize, rotate, combine, duplicate, flip, arc, group, zoom, recolour and single-colour stitching |
| Design transfer | USB flash drive through one USB port |
| Regional USB capacity | Compatible USB flash drives up to 16GB |
| Embroidery formats | Compatible Janome embroidery formats including JEF, JEF+ and JPX |
| Built-in memory | Approximately 2MB |
| Jump-thread trimming | Programmable automatic trimming |
| Thread-break recovery | Automatic return and flexible stitch travel |
| Upper-thread sensor | Yes |
| Bobbin-thread sensor | Optical constant-monitoring sensor |
| Automatic thread cutter | Yes, cuts the upper and bobbin threads together |
| Needle threader | Superior Needle Threader 2 |
| Thread tension | Manual adjustment |
| Bobbin system | Top-loading full rotary hook with Easy Set Bobbin path |
| Bobbin winding | Automatic-declutch bobbin winder with plate and built-in cutter |
| Embroidery unit | Built-in rear swing-out embroidery arm |
| Free-arm embroidery | Yes, using optional FA10e or FA5e hoops |
| Workspace | Approximately 183.5mm wide × 110mm high |
| Lighting | Two white LED lights across two locations |
| Start and stop button | Yes |
| Safety lock button | Yes, for threading, needle changes and maintenance |
| Foot controller | Not required or supplied |
| Multi-language interface | 16 selectable languages |
| Machine dimensions | 432mm wide × 301mm high × 270mm deep, including embroidery unit |
| Machine weight | Approximately 9.1kg |
| Internal frame | Rigid die-cast aluminium construction |
| Machine cover | Janome-branded soft cover included |
| Extra-wide extension table | Optional accessory |
Popular optional accessories
Optional embroidery hoops
| Part number | Accessory |
|---|---|
| 819401007 | SQ10e embroidery hoop and template, 100 × 100mm |
| 819402008 | FA10e free-arm embroidery hoop and template, 100 × 40mm |
| 819403009 | FA5e free-arm embroidery hoop and template, 50 × 50mm |
Tables, thread stands and embroidery attachments
| Part number | Accessory |
|---|---|
| 819404206 | Extra-wide extension table |
| 859429016 | Two-thread spool stand |
| 859430009 | Five-thread spool stand |
| 202316004 | Embroidery couching foot set |
| 202543002 | Cutwork embroidery kit |
| 202233006 | Special spool holder |
Optional embroidery software
| Part number | Software |
|---|---|
| 202390002 | Janome Artistic Digitizer full version for compatible Windows or Mac computers |
| 202395007 | Janome Artistic Digitizer Junior for compatible Windows or Mac computers |
| 202419008 | Janome AcuStitch software for compatible Windows computers |
Recommended needles and bobbins
| Part number | Accessory |
|---|---|
| 202122001 | Janome Purple Tip Needles, size 14, pack of five |
| 200346007 | Janome Blue Tip Needles, size 11, pack of five |
| 5117075BL | Organ anti-glue embroidery needles, size 11/75, pack of five |
| 202010027 | Janome plastic bobbins, pack of ten |
| 202010038 | Janome plastic bobbins, pack of five |
Accessory availability and regional part numbers can change. Contact Direct Sewing to confirm current compatibility and stock.
Learn more about the Memory Craft 100E
Instruction Manual
Read the complete operating guide covering threading, hooping, editing, embroidery, care and troubleshooting.
NZ and AU Brochure
View the official regional brochure with machine specifications and New Zealand accessory information.
Official Feature Sheet
Review a concise overview of the embroidery features, accessories and optional hoop sizes.
Built-In Design Chart
Browse the built-in embroidery motifs, lettering, monograms, borders and normal-sew patterns.
Official Global Product Guide
Explore detailed Janome information about free-arm embroidery, editing, hooping and optional accessories.
Embroidery Couching Designs
Access official couching information and compatible design downloads for the optional couching foot.
Regional Product Information
View Janome Australia and New Zealand’s specifications, accessories and official product information.
Janome Memory Craft 100E FAQ
Is the Janome Memory Craft 100E embroidery only?
Yes. The MC100E is a dedicated embroidery-only machine. It does not perform ordinary sewing-machine construction stitches.
What is the maximum embroidery size?
The maximum embroidery area is 140 × 140mm using the included SQ14e hoop.
How many embroidery designs are built in?
The machine includes 274 embroidery designs arranged across 18 categories, together with built-in lettering, monograms, borders and related pattern options.
Can I import my own embroidery designs?
Yes. Compatible embroidery designs can be transferred using a USB flash drive. The design must fit within the selected hoop and machine limits.
Which embroidery hoop is included?
The SQ14e 140 × 140mm hoop and template are supplied as standard.
Can the MC100E embroider sleeves and small tubular items?
Yes, using the optional FA10e or FA5e free-arm hoop. These allow suitable sleeves, trouser legs and small finished garments to slide around the machine arm.
Are the free-arm embroidery hoops included?
No. The FA10e and FA5e free-arm hoops are optional accessories.
Does the machine automatically cut jump threads?
Yes. Programmable jump-thread trimming is available for suitable embroidery designs and settings.
What happens if the upper thread breaks?
The upper-thread sensor stops the machine. You can rethread it, travel backwards through the design and continue from the required position.
Does it warn me when the bobbin is running low?
Yes. An optical sensor continuously monitors the bobbin thread and displays a warning when the supply becomes low.
Can I resize and combine designs on the machine?
Yes. The colour touchscreen supports resizing, rotating, flipping, combining, duplicating, grouping, zooming and colour editing.
Does it include embroidery lettering?
Yes. It includes 11 English fonts, additional regional character sets and two-letter and three-letter monogramming.
Is embroidery software included?
The machine can be used without digitising software because it includes built-in designs and USB import. Artistic Digitizer and AcuStitch are optional software packages for creating or editing additional designs.
Can the MC100E do embroidery couching?
Yes. Embroidery couching is supported when the optional couching foot and compatible couching designs are used.
Can it do cutwork embroidery?
Yes. Janome’s optional cutwork embroidery kit allows compatible cutwork projects to be created using specialist cutting needles and designs.
Is the extra-wide table included?
No. The extra-wide table is available separately as an optional accessory.
How large and heavy is the machine?
The machine measures approximately 432mm wide × 301mm high × 270mm deep and weighs approximately 9.1kg, including the built-in embroidery unit.
Buy from New Zealand embroidery specialists
Start embroidery with knowledgeable local support
Direct Sewing has supplied sewing and embroidery equipment throughout New Zealand since 2001. Our experienced team can demonstrate the Memory Craft 100E and help you understand hooping, stabilisers, embroidery threads, needles, USB design transfer and optional accessories.
With genuine product knowledge, nationwide support and an in-house technical workshop, you can purchase with confidence and continue receiving assistance long after your machine leaves our showroom.
For makers looking for an approachable, compact and capable introduction to dedicated computerised embroidery, the Janome Memory Craft 100E is an outstanding place to begin.