Friday, January 28, 2011

Day 28 and the Cord Stack


There's an ingenious little device called the Embellish Knit! which is a cranking i-cord maker. If I wanted to make i-cord by hand, I could certainly do it, but for very long lengths it can become mentally exhausting to do something so mindless.

Here I have made lengths of i-cord as long as I wanted my scarf and laying them side by side, sewed straight through all of them in many different places such that the end product was, WOW, a scarf! This would be a terrific project for kids to do since there is no prior skill necessary and using the little machine is very very easy.

I used caron simply soft for all of the cords and this resulted in a thick but soft cord. I did find that the weight that came with the machine needed to be just a little bit heavier for this particular yarn, so I put the weight inside a small tin that I happened to have and added a few other small heavy items like marbles to it. The lip of the tin then held the yarn and I could use the machine in the normal way.

Use extra yarn and a tapestry needle to just sew straight across the grain. I hid my ends, but if you were to let them hang and add fringe on both sides, you would have a completely different and very fun look as well.

2 comments:

  1. Amanda I don't have time to make all the things you are making but every time I look at your blog, I do a mental inventory of my stash and think "yarn X would look great in that". This one is a particularly good idea. I have an I-cord spool but not one that cranks. What a great idea!

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  2. Haha! Now that you mention it, I don't know how I'm finding the time to make these scarves either! I'll keep watching your rav though. You always post very nice creations :)

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