My getaway.. the craft store

A trip to Michael's craft store is always an exciting event for me. Even if I don't have a specific idea in mind, I could spend hours in that wonderful store. I even go there during the week for a lunch hour escape. Shhhhh..... don't tell anyone, I only get 30 minutes for lunch.My most recent purchase involved the Martha Stewart Crafts Knit & Weave Loom kit. Normally I try to avoid Martha Stewart products. She just annoys me to no end. But this was 50% off, and I had a coupon, so I just couldn't resist this awesome sale. The picture below shows what comes in the kit. It also comes with an instruction book that is NOT helpful at all. I feel like I need a magnifying glass to see the picture to know if I'm doing it correctly.

I finally got to use my new loom kit the other night at my "Knitting" get together with some friends. I think we did more chatting and wine drinking that knitting, but that's ok. I started to make a scarf by putting together the long loom. I immediately started to hate this thing. You have to put all of the pegs in the loom yourself. It gets worse. As I was knitting, the pegs would either slide out of their holes, or fold in. Perhaps my stitches were too tight, I don't know. I definitely like the knifty knitter looms better. I gave up on my scarf, and right now I am working on a "pot holder". I will try to take some pictures tonight and share tomorrow.