SENTRO Knitting Machine, 22 Needles Smart Knitting Round Loom, Knitting Board Rotating Double Knit Loom Machine for Kids

So I usually crochet dolls and toys for my friends' babies. Well now everyone is popping out babies left and right and i do not have time to make a bunch of cute rattles for everyone anymore. I saw one of these in a Tiktok video (of all places!) And decided to give this a try. Got the machine today, watched a couple youtube videos, and voila, I now have 2 adorable pumpkins! Thumbs up! It's quality is definitely like a toy but who cares. It helps me accomplish my goal and I'm sure I will move on to a new hobby next month. For now, totally worth the money!

I was super excited for this item. I have a Sentro 48 pin as well and was hoping to use the 22pin to create braided scarves to go with my beanies. Unfortunately this item just didn't cut it. While it did arrive weeks earlier than tracking showed, upon opening it up and trying it out the machine didn't work properly. After just a few rounds the handle would stick and try to pop. I didn't want to force anything, so I would always stop and attempt to rewind the handle a slight bit to help it unstick. When the handle didn't stick it would grind forward and skip making a terrible noise without any warning. I reached out to the seller regarding my issue in the hopes they could send a replacement piece for the handle (based off of what a few other knitting machine users have said it seemed to be an issue of a worn/stripped gear). Unfortunately my email was met with a copy/paste response with tips on how to thread the machine, and place the yarn in the yarn gauge. My issue wasn't addressed at all. So I've decided to return the item. For anyone who's read this far, it seems to be hit or miss on weather or not the machines sent out have issues. I would say this is a case of you get what you pay for and to go into the shopping experience knowing you may very well have a faulty machine sent to you.

Nice machine it seems durable I easy to use for those who have used a knitting machine perfect for making small I items. It's some much easier then using a loom once you get use to the knitting machine I have a larger one and I really love it. I bought this so I can make smaller I items. I have no problem with sticking the only draw back is the bunny ears but it doesn't effect the function of the machine

I ordered this machine on Oct 12th, it was delivered on Nov 2nd. Today is Nov 20th. I have not used it everyday, I got this to make NICU hats with my children to donate for the holidays. We have made 24 tiny hats and 4 jellyfish rattles to donate as well. And it’s now broken. It makes a grinding noise and does not spin while the noise is happening. I am using it with my children, who are 7 and 5 but seeing as it is meant for kids and I supervised them the whole time I don’t think it was them. I don’t feel right returning it because I did use it. But I am upset and disappointed that I could not make more. I will try to continue to use it and make more and just work through the grinding, but I fear it will just end up in the trash. With tax my total purchase was 54.49 divided by 28 items that’s 1.95 per item. Not to mention time and yarn. Now I am not selling them I am donating I just wished it lasted longer and that I was able to make more to donate. I am hesitant to replace it in fear it will only last so long. We never used heavy or thick yarn with it. Only three and four weight. I don’t think I will be buying it again. And I don’t feel right recommending it, because it’s not built to last. On a positive note it was incredibly easy to use, my seven and five year old were able to cast on and knit and then I came in at the end and took the projects off and finished them up.

I had visions of knee socks dancing in my head.... Note: My review is for folks that handknit socks already. Otherwise this is fun machine and I could see ages 12 and up happily cranking things out on it. Sadly the machine will not accept sock yarn. Well it knits it up fine but the gauge is way too large. The machine basically knits worsted weight socks and even those are bit loose. It's like trying to knit socks on a size 7 or 8 needle. Yeah, that doesn't work. Also you can do a rib by stopping the machine and pulling off columns of stitches, letting them drop and using a crochet hook to re-knit them back up to the machine peg (you are looking at the wrong side inside the center of the machine.). This is fiddly and I tested this 4 times and still couldn't get it quite right which led me to believe I could just pick up and knit from the sock once off the machine and do the rib cuff a lot faster. Especially in worsted weight. You can also do a heel by essentially doing short rows on panel mode. Cranking forwards and then back. I hadn't gotten this far yet, but it looked simple enough in the below YouTuber's video. (I found all these techniques on Koala Knits and Knacks on YouTube. Great tutorial.) That being said, I am not sure I can get a worsted sock into my shoe. And the sock yarn version looks like fishnets. However, I do see this being useful in knitting up leg warmers. But how many leg warmers do you need? Maybe I can sell some on Etsy. Even then, I would rather handknit the rib cuff.

Love this machine so now I have both sizes and really pleased. You just have to take your time and Crank slow and keep testing the yarn as not all yarn works well in it...

It broke real fast barely was able to use it 😔

This machine is really great, now I can knit socks with ease. However I received it today and when I was unboxing it I looked for the tension rob for the yarn and in the item bag it was broken as you can see in the picture’s. However I did order a new one, but I do like this machine and it works really good. I love it so far. If your looking for an easy way to knit and knit with your kids this is it. It’s so easy to use. I recommend :)

Ne possède pas d'ancrage donc un peu instable

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Es ist Okay, leider sehr grob das Ergebnis und der Kunststoff könnte besser sein

Excellent, with now enjoys all kinds of Hats and scarfs.

I want to like this size but don’t find it as versatile as the larger one .