Addi Egg

I am finding this very easy to use. So far I have only tried it with DK weight yarn.It dropped a few stitches at the beginning, but I pulled the tube back up and unpicked it back to the dropped stitches and then put the loops back onto the needles, then continued to knit, by turning the handle, and it was fine. It seems like its just a matter of keeping the tension correct on the yarn going into the egg, and the stitches will be fine.You must also give the handle a good shove in or it will keep falling out as you turn it, one good shove solves this.As this has 6 needles you get a wider i cord tube than most if the other french knitting type machines. I'm not sure what I will do with mine yet, but I have some ideas running around my head. For now I'm just happily turning out a long strand of i cord, because I can.

I have tried this with many weights of yarn, with different weights on the end and any other fix I could imagine. This does not make cord, it makes a mangled mess.Not only that, but I have to go in and perform surgery to removed the mangled mess from all the hooks.Handle falls off a lot but easily solved with blu-tac or glue, not that you'd want to because this is super duper not good.I should add I am very well versed in knitting and knitting machines, I can easily operate round and flatbed machines. This is just...No.The only reason I'm not requesting a refund is because I stupidly threw out the packaging because I assumed it would work because it's addi and the brand tend to be good. Whoops.Only good thing I can say about it is that it hasn't straight up broken or snapped during my surgery attempts due to it trying to eat the yarn. So it's well made. Useless, but well made.

Brilliant bit of kit for making wider I-cords. Easy to use, good value.

I was expecting better results

I recommend if you buy one of these to watch a you tube video on how to use it . I think the problem people have with these is they think it's exactly the same as other addi to cast on . Expect it's slightly different. You thread the yarn through the hole than I didn't add tge weight . Use tge needle to pull a piece of yarn back up from the feeder and use than than to cast on the same way as addi handle is a single so I just turned the oart it fits in

I have the tulip 4 pin knitting mill which is brilliant, and a 22 pin and 48 pin knitting mills, so I'm competent at using these machines. I bought this as I wanted a slightly bigger cord than the tulip makes, but this knits up so loosely that with the slightest bit of stretch, it ends up thinner than the 4 pin cord. I tried using thicker yarn and this just tangled, as its not designed for thicker yarn, and tried a tighter tension but it didn't make a difference. I think this machine would tangle a lot for anyone with no experience of other mills, I had to baby it most of the way, knowing when to push down the yarn and correct mistakes. With this in mind, the clear topper is pointless as you'd have to keep taking it off. If it had worked as expected, this would have been a great value machine but unfortunately I had to return it.

What an awesome product. 2 minutes to put the pieces together, 3 minutes to thread it wool in as I'm lazy and couldn't be bothered to find a yarn needle, 10 minutes later I have a perfect 6+ foot I-cord.If you have either of the bigger Addi knitting machines you basically have to forget everything you know about knitting on them apart from casting on and off.Make sure the lid is on and the little gap in it is in line with the yarn feeder.Make sure the weight is on and don't let it rest on a surface before you move it up.It's that simple, my 3 year old nephew had a go once I had it cast on and he got good looking i-cord from it... well he did until he decided it was a spaceship and ran around the room with it making rocket sounds and I had to cut the yarn because the aliens were using it to pull the spaceship back to their planet.

I have ordered this twice in two days 1st came home with broken pin … second the handle / cog keeps slipping … I have all the other sizes of Addi machines and used them for years with no problem at all .. so slightly disappointed with the Addi egg … not sure if the quality is perhaps not as good as they used to make or a bad batch … have ordered a third … perhaps third time lucky!