Prym Mini Knitting Mill, Purple

This is fairly easy to use once you get it started...There are 4 hooks inside the plastic tube at the top ( the plastic tube does not come off.)These hooks have a tiny flap underneath them which catches the yarn so you must ensure the flaps are open before adding the yarn at the beginning, this is super fiddly due to the tube not coming off.The beginning is frustrating and the instructions are really useless.I will try to provide instructions from my own experience below, if I knew how to add photos or video I would as I think that would help tremendously...1. attach the handle into the square hole on the side of the blue part of the mechainsm and make a note of which way the arrow points - it is very hard to see but is located around that handle hole, and make sure you only ever turn the handle in the direction of that arrow.2. select your yarn - you can only use maximum dk thickness yarn, I used scheepjes catone and that is probably as thick as you can go.you cannot use any kind of fluffy yarn as this fouls the mechanism ( I tried kidsilk haze and then spent an hour cleaning the thing out - do not use fluffy yarn)3.take the yarn directly off the ball - you will need to feed about 40cm length through the hole on the side of the clear plastic tube, feed it under the upside down u shaped clear hole and back out again so that it comes out on the outside of the clear plastic tube.4. feed the yarn along the outside of the plastic tube and then through the small cut out lip at the top of the clear plastic tube so that it heads inside the tube towards the hooks...here comes the frustratingly tricky part...5. feed the yarn into the middle hole of the mechainsm inside the tube and then make sure you have rotated the handle so that one of the hooks lines up with the cut out lip that your yarn is resting on.6. Make sure the flap is open - you can do this by running your finger doen the hook shaft and it should op out without resistance, of course it is tricky to get your finger in there - a little paintbrush helps with this.7. lift the yarn that should be laying to the left of this one hook and nudge it into the hook, hold it there ( again little paintbrush helps with this) and turn the handle in the correct direction - the hook should move to the left and go down at the same time and the flap should start to lift to catch the yarn.8. as th next hook lines up with the cut out lip on the clear tube, again ensure the flap is open, very carefully nudge the yarn under the hook - WITHOUT popping it out of the half closed hook you just moved tothe left. again rotate the handle in the correct direction. hook 1 should now be down with the yarn in place, hook 2 should have moved tot he left, slightly down, flap moving upwards.9. repeat step 8 until you have hook 4 loaded....be careful not to pop the yarn off the previous hooks - this is super fiddly and may take several attempts to get all 4 hooks loaded. If it all goes pearshaped simply put tension on the yarn outside the mechanism near the ball and reverse the handle - pulling hte yarn back out and start from the beggining. It took me 8 goes before it worked and I was rather frustrated by all of this.10. Once all 4 hoos are loaded, carefully rotate the handle in the correct directions, keeping your trusty paintbrush to hand as you will need to nudge the flaps open and the yarn under until you have completed at least 10 rounds.11. after sucessfully faffling about to complete 10 rounds the mechanism takes over and you can then stop holding your breath, and just slowly and evenly turn the handle. I reccomend not adding the weight until the first 10 rounds are completed - it is a really stupid design -- it is a hook, if it were a circle on top you could easily knot the tail of your yarn onto it and it would stay put until you were finished, but they put a hook on, which means that as the mechanism turns and the yarn bobs about, the thing falls off!.12. Be prepared - you will need to figure out how long you want the finished product to be and place your machine at the correct height and make sure the bottom of hte machine is free as that is where the finished cord comes out, or be prepared to keep moving the weight up your work - I tried that and did not like the way it snagged and mishaped the cord at the attachment points. In the end I used a soft close clothes peg and attached the weight to that so it did not ruin my work.Once you get it going, it is really easy to keep going - I promise, it is the set up rows that are unnecessarily fiddly and unrelaible and just plain annoying.The way the machine is constructed interferes with getting it going and I expected more for the money in that respect. Once it gets going, the mechanism is robust enough too keep going and going which is good.I am concerned about the fact that you cannot take it apart, as even mercercized cotton gives of a slight amount of yarn debris over time, and not being able to clean it will probably mean it is a buy , use, throw away item, which I dislike intensely especially as it is , apart from the metal hooks, plastic and not good for the environment.Hence - not getting 5 stars.I am sorry I could not show pictures or video, but hoep these instructions based on my use of the machine help others.

Comprato perché mi affascinava tantissimo!Facile da usare, mi piace davvero tantissimo e ho già realizzato un sacco di scritte e altri lavoretti! Lo consiglio!

The media could not be loaded.  Ho acquistato questo mulinello per creare del tricotin per effettuare le classiche scritte in cordoncino rigido. Quando abbiamo aperto la confezione ci sembrava un giocattolo, tutto in plastica con solo i quattro aghi in ferro. All'interno è presente un foglio illustrativo ma serve a poco, siamo andati su Google e li abbiamo capito come partire. Durante l'avvolgimento della maglia si sentivano vari rumori dati dalla plastica e a volte si bloccava ma bastava andare un po' indietro e riavvolgere. Ovviamente una volta creato il coodoncino all'interno deve essere infilato un filo di ferro con spessore 0,5mm. Se volete cimentarvi in questi lavoretti è molto utile. Lo consiglio

I love this little machine. Took a while to get use to. And the handle is a little clunky, feels a little "cheap" but I don't use it all the time

Fa il suo dovere, è di qualità e abbastanza resistente, unico neo il pesetto, bisogna agganciarlo sul lavoro di volta in volta e questo fa si, che con il peso appunto, si allagano i fori, bisogna ingegnarsi con delle mollette.