Knit-Wit

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If you're thinking of getting one of these - don't.

I'm not sure I can adequately explain all of the things that are wrong with this thing. But, being the type of person I am, I'll try.

A) The thing is poorly constructed. It's made of rather cheap plastic and metal prongs that don't seem very sturdy either.

B) The idea behind it, is that it is supposed to be less time-consuming than normal knitting/crocheting -- I'm not sure how. Even factoring in a "learning curve", it still seems like it's going to take as long as crocheting or knitting the same item.

C) You basically make rosettes/stars (depending on the tool). Doing one or two passes looks really bad (like a flimsy granny square), but putting a third or fourth rosette on the tool makes it really impossible to use the yarn needle to do the finishing that you have to do as part of the "knit-wit" scheme.

D) The metal prongs really destroy the yarn. This happened with both the worsted yarn and a really good cotton yard.

If I remember, I'll try to take pictures of it tomorrow at work and post them.

Thankfully, I have a 30-day money back guarantee and will be sending mine back to the place I bought them tomorrow.