good morning all i bought a small knitting machine at mary maximums and it worked out beautifully i made a lot of scarves hats and neck warmers for my charity so i posted a request for a smaller machine and someone kindly told me to go to toysrus oh goody now i can make armwarmers fingerless mitts and more scarfs now this is supposed to be for a 5 year old and up no no maybe if the child is a genius i spent 2 hours trying to thread and it didnt work i was going to throw it through the window but i changed my mind and threaded like the other machine and it works now you can use thin fuzzy yarn and other thin yarn but very thin i am going to keep it because i bought a ton of goofy novelty yarn that i hate knitting with all my neices and friends are going to get scarfs for the holidays the machine is called touch me and it is not for a childsylvia