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Knit Cord Maker

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Betz White shows you how to use this cool crafty gadget, the Magicord Knitter (looks like now called Embellish-Knit) which lets you crank the handle and knit a long cord in an instant. Betz then felts the cord to embellish her projects like this felt tea cup pin cushion. Link.


Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu | Jun 26, 2006 10:26 AM
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Posted by: mycroftxxx on June 26, 2006 at 3:45 PM

Can anyone tell me if you can feed wires into the middle of this thing to make a "knit" cover for electronic cords? I'm seeing lots of hackerly potential here, but I'm not sure if I understand the concept right. Are these cords hollow?


Posted by: jmassaglia on June 26, 2006 at 4:05 PM

You can do this without a machine if you have a few nails and a piece of wood.
Here's some instructions.


Posted by: nataliezee on June 26, 2006 at 5:17 PM

If you want to use wires, the manufacturer makes this one: http://www.bond-america.com/products/wyrknittr.html ($14.95). You can definitely make your own corder as jmassaglia posted. This one is just a faster option because you have a hand crank.

- natalie


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