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| Customer Reviews: | | Average Customer Review: ( 25 customer reviews )
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46 of 52 found the following review helpful:
 Great doorstop! Oct 07, 2007
By Crochet Lover
"crochetlover"
I bought the NSI International Innovations Knitting Machine as a way to relax and have fun while quickly knitting up projects as gifts or for charity. Oh my my my, what a mean joke they played on me.
As Napoleon Dynamite would say, this knitting machine is a decroated piece of cr@p. I found it so frustrating to work with I'm afraid my son's preschool will call me tomorrow to report all the new cuss words he learned from me this weekend.
Whoever wrote the manual needs to be shot. I'm a tech writer and this sort of thing drives me crazy. If you can't make the steps simple and the diagrams make sense or actually LOOK like the product, then don't bother!
Honestly, should something supposedly so easy and fun have THIS steep of a learning curve? It took me a good five tries to finally make a tube based on how they tell you to do it. Ooooh, ahhhh...
I also don't think I went more than three or four rows before it dropped a stitch. It was worst when making panels - stop for any reason (including to turn the other way), the yarn goes slack and then it drops two or three stitches. Ditto with cranking it slightly forward or backward to fix the yarn going slack on its own - again, drops the stitch. I admittedly am not an expert knitter and I still don't manage to drop as many stitches as the knitting machine does - because of this problem I can STILL knit faster than this thing because I'm too busy fixing the dropped stitches or saying @#$&! it, pulling the work off, unraveling it and then starting over again.
Don't get me started on how it loves to tear up the fibers on fuzzy yarns.
Speaking of yarn tension, that's a nightmare too. They tell you to wind the yarn through the tensioner a certain way so it's not too loose or too tight. But I couldn't find that happy medium at all - it was either so loose that I dealt with the dropped stitch problem every other row, or it was so tight it popped the tensioner right off the machine. It sounded like someone's great-grandfather, groaning and popping and snapping, and just like great-grandpa I kept waiting for it to break something.
Oh and you know what their solution in an extra insert is to some of the above problems? Put binder clips around your work to give it weight. Gotta love accountability - no, don't bother fixing your product so it works, just make it OUR problem.
This product was a definite waste of 40 bucks and my grief. It wouldn't even disassemble or go back in the box right for me to take it back to Hobby Lobby tomorrow. Maybe it's slower, but I'll stick with my needles and looms from now on.
23 of 25 found the following review helpful:
 super fast and easy! Jan 01, 2008
By Jillian Tokay
Considering what other knitting machines cost I think that this is a great little machine for the price. It's easy to use and amazingly fast. I was able to knit a matching scarf and hat for a gift in about two hours the very first time I sat down to use it. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. The process is very simple. Just load the yarn and turn the crank. I would definately recommend this to anyone who wants to make a bunch of hats and scarves really quickly. It also works with a lot of different kinds of yarn, so even though it's really only practically for two different projects, you can still make a lot of different kinds of hats and scarves.
20 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 Not as advertised... Sep 08, 2007
By Susan D
"Susile"
This knitting machine could possibly be useful for making scarves or small hats in bulk, say, for charity, however I don't honestly know what else I would want to make with it. It only knits stockinette stitch. It also does not do what it advertises. The box and instruction manual state that it knits up to a 13" DIAMETER tube. I used various weights of yarn and none of my tubes was any more than 5" diameter, once it was unstreched. I was generous with my rating and gave the machine at least 2 stars because I did find it easy to use and didn't have any trouble with dropped stitches. Overall though, I wouldn't spend the money and would stick to handknitting.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 WOW Check this one is a nice machine! Jun 10, 2008
By Carrie E. Nelson
"Crazy-Anything-Store"
I love my Innovations. I have knit a double knit baby afghan, fishnet stockings, shrug, and more and I have only had it 2 months! I am a complete yarnophile so I love to learn how to knit every way (machine, hand, loom). I HIGHLY suggest you look at the Yahoo Group Innovationsknitting for patterns, pictures of projects, tips & tricks, just friendly advice. I have quite a few pictures up as well.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
great product Dec 28, 2007
By Kelly K. Sartori
"crafty girl"
This product is great, I can knit faster than needles. I crochet and now I can make knitted item without learning to use the two needles. I bought 2 one for me and one for my mother. I just made my first project and can't wait to make more. The instructions are easy to follow and this machine is very addictive. Once you start it is hard to stop turning the crank.
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