Provo Craft Knifty Knitter Looms Review

I've had my Provo-craft looms for about 2 years now. I have the four round looms and the four long looms. For the first year I only made hats on the round loom and scarves on the long looms. But I just recently bought some loom pattern books and its opened up a whole new world to looming! On these looms you can make a variety of things such as mittens, socks, slippers, hats with visors, even larger items such as sweaters. A lot of people also use them to make cute little decorations such as Christmas ornaments and such.  If you knit with wool yarn, you can "felt" your items, which means you wash them for a few minutes in hot water to shrink the wool and bind the fibers together to create a felt-like look.The Knifty Knitter looms by Provo-craft are a great place to start if you've never loomed before, or don't even know what it is! There are a few great things about them:

1. they're pretty sturdy!

2. a pack comes with four sizes for variety

3. they're not too expensive

4. it comes with some decent instructions to get you going

5. its sooo easy to get started! i knit my first hat in about 30 minutes!

There's not much I don't like about my Provo-craft Knifty Knitter Looms. I think the only thing about them that I would change is to maybe have one or two of the looms in the set come in a smaller gauge. For those of you who don't know, the gauge is the size of the space between the pegs. The Provo-craft looms have a larger gauge, so your stitches come out a bit larger and its can be hard to do things like mittens and socks, because the knit can be a bit loose and your end result can be a bit "hole-ly' looking.

But using the Provo-craft looms led me into the wonderful world of looming and I found other types of looms specifically designed to make tighter knit items such as socks and mittens. Now I have great handmade things to give out at Christmas and other special occasions!