SENTRO 48 Needle Knitting Machine Kit

Don't buy it. 1. suction cups will not secure the machine so you will be trying to control tension on the yarn AND hold the machine from sliding around. Only solution is to build a base and bolt the machine down. It is still not sturdy, however. 2. VERY picky about what yarn will go smoothly through the machine. Some heavy yarns work great. Others won't work at all. Some mid weight yarns work beautifully. Others - same weight but different fiber/twist - simply don't work at all. Light weight yarn is a nightmare. 3.Randomly drops stiches even on yarn it likes and you won't notice for several rows. Although it's fixable, it's tedious to hook the stiches back. 4. Speed matters. Going 'fast' means dropping many stitches so you don't actually save any time because you spend so much time fixing the drops. Going very, very slow is the only solution. At some point, though, you wonder if it would be less frustrating and almost as fast to just pick up your knitting needles. When you magically find the right yarn it likes, it makes a lovely knitted piece. Unfortunately, that only happens about 25% of the time. Sadly for me, I assumed the problems were new user error and kept trying different techniques. Return period has now passed and I wish I'd returned it instead of trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. As an experienced fiber artist, I expected to have a learning curve on a new tool. I did not expect the tool would, basically, be a piece of plastic rubbish. This is not value for money. It is not a dependable knitting machine.