I have had this machine for over a year now. I gave it 2 stars for the simple fact that I can make it work. I've made sweaters, and blankets. but boy am I dissapointed by the quality it produces. I am an expert knitter. This Machine produces quality that LOOKS home made by a 12 year old. when I knit by hand it looks professional. For cables it can only handle 4 stitch cables, and they look...odd, and take 3x as long as by hand. you cannot increase in the middle of a piece only at the ends, so that makes raglan sweaters out, which are the very best kind of knit sweater because there is no lumpy seam at the shoulder. you also cannot decrese easily so a properly constructed hat with decreases is also out, or pearl in the middle unless you want the entire row lengthwise to be pearled, and this is infuriating anyways. you cannot double up on the yarn, you cannot use thick yarn or specialty yarn, or make anything that uses needles smaller than a size 5, and depending on the yarn you choose the smallest is equivelent to an 8. you also cannot use any pattern that has you measure your work because the weights stretch it out. you cannot make a sweater for a big man without the add on piece. The other thing is that it advertizes how "quick" it is. I made a hat by hand, and the very same hat using the machine, it was a simple toddler cloche with small cables every 12 stiches. If you include set up time(generally at least a 1/2 hour) and time I spent fixing dropped stiches it actually took me twice as long to make it on the machine as by hand and it looked weird because of the odd cables, and because I had to do it from the top down to make the top decreases properly. I am thoroughly dissapointed in this machine.