A very stupid gadget-but wait there’s less

Normally, I quite like yarncentric gadgets that allow me to play with yarn in interesting ways.

Well, I have found a gadget that I  truly loathe.

I have a rule about my blog, and that is that I only talk about stuff and books that I really like.

Well, this dumb thing is sooooooooooooooo bad,

you almost have to love it

have to pity the poor thing.

When I saw these two needles in

a drawer of a second hand store,

at first, I thought… hmmm….

plastic punch needles?

Nope…. it says: ‘K-Tel Knitter’ on it.

I still had to try it as a punch needle- and no no no… don’t try it at home.

Alright. So, it didn’t come with instructions, but I am usually pretty darned good at figuring out how things work….

but I may have this all wrong- so if you know how to use it and I have actually got it all bass-ackwards, then that might explain why I find it to be so annoying and irritating.

Okay…. so here’s what I thought it should do….  because it’s got a short section that is too short to actually hold stitches, I assumed that it would kind of work like a crochet hook, with the stitches in the air…

Maybe , I thought…. it might kind of be like a ’shepherd’s knitting’ kind of tool….

Logically, the yarn

is probably

meant

to go through the 2 holes like this.

But I could be wrong….

I tried a few ways of looping it around

and decided, oh what the heck

you can’t go wrong

with a slip knot……

so, let’s start with a slip knot.

The next logical step is to stick the

eye of the needle through

so… that seems like a good way to

make a chain… chains are a logical

place to start, right?

What a clumsy way to make a chain.

You have to push the needle through and

then pull it out  and leave the stitch in the

air and stick the needle through again to

make the next stitch.

Hmmm… not liking this….

That is one slow way to make a

chain! If this thing is supposed

to be a good substitute for knitting

or crochet, then I can’t imagine

how?  erg…..

Okay… now what? um

alright… so if I was crocheting, I would

skip one stitch and work into the 2nd one

from the hook, so…

I  pushed the needle

through the last chain, and skipped a stitch,

and pushed the needle through the next chain

stitch and pulled it back through both.

Then picked it up again and repeated the whole tedious process.

And worked across the chain.

At the end of the row,

I figured, well, if this

was crochet,

I would chain one and turn….

which made sense, so I did that

and then considered the possibilities….

I could go through the back bar of the previous

row, or the front bar, or both bars….

This pic shows how it looked when I

just went through the back bar….

Picking up the previous stitch out of the air,

as the loop seems to need to come off the

needle after completing each stitch…..

boy is that slow!

I experimented with different

stitch lengths, and with picking

up the different bars on different rows,

and threw the whole thing across the

room with a gigantic snort….

This thing takes the cake – not only is it slow and clunky to work with, but the finished work is the pits pits pits.

blech.

Fie.

A pox upon it.

If you have one, and love it, then that’s neat. I hope that the two of you will live long and happily together. I won’t be coming to visit it…..  of course, this is just all my opinion, and all that…. but yech.

But wait! There’s more!

No there isn’t.

It just seemed like a good way to finish, but really, I don’t have anything more to say about it. Myech.