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Sew: A Needle Pulling (Conductive) Thread For Easy DIY iPod Gloves

6:43 am, February 9th, 2009, Nicole Martinelli

Have been looking for an easy way to adjust the iPod with gloves after nearly getting myself killed on the way to work driving my bike with one hand, glove in mouth, as I tried to lower the volume. This is an easy solution that doesn’t take too much skill…

You’ll need:

- A pair of gloves
- Needle (medium or heavy weight, depending on thickness, fabric of gloves )
- Conductive thread (the only drawback is that a quick search for spools seems to turn out a cost of about $20 each, though you can also make a bunch for your friends…)
- Fabric pen or marker

How-to
1. Put on gloves, mark the location of where your fingers touch your screen with the fabric pen or marker for your center mark.

2. Take off the gloves and thread your needle with conductive thread (tie a knot at the end)

3. Using the dot as your center mark, sew about a 1/4″ square with horizontal stitches. The size depends on the size of your finger. Pull the thread all the way through to the inside of the gloves — to work, the thread has to touch your fingers on the inside of your gloves when you have them on.

4. Sew another square of vertical stitches on top of that one, tie it off and cut the excess thread.

This handy idea comes from a book called “Switch Craft: Battery Powered Crafts to Make and Sew.”

Via iheartswitch

Posted by Nicole Martinelli in How tos, iPod, iPod Accessories, iPod Touch | Comment on this article

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Nicole Martinelli was born in San Francisco and has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. Cultish tendencies and love for DIY increased while living on the Old Continent, where tech came late and cost more in Big Mac index terms. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek, and since 1999 on her site, Zoomata. If you're so inclined, friend her on Facebook or connect on Linked in.

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9 comments

    Of course, you could always just buy a pair of Freehands!

    Josh Rubin, on February 9th, 2009 at 8:00 am

    Nice tip; I’d just been using fingerless gloves! I’m finding that I actually like the mechanical interface of my old 2g Nano more than my 1g Touch because I can operate it one-handed without actually having to look at it, and tend to grab it rather than the Touch when I go out these days. I guess there are lots of positive things to be said for the touchscreen but in this case I think form won out over functionality.

    Steve, on February 9th, 2009 at 10:27 am

    I’m gonna guess this pretty much nullifies my Thinsulate®. I know it’s only about 1/2″-square, but just a single cold finger is quite uncomfortable. I maintain that a specific base-line setting that can be used to normalize track volumes would eliminate most of the reason for a bare finger.

    imajoebob, on February 9th, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Or go could poke a little hole in your glove? i think I’ll try this first with an old pair.

    Andrew, on February 9th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Hey instead of spending $20 on thread of which you’ll only use a foot or so, why not take apart a $3 antistatic wrist strap? You’ll find lots of conductive thread in there!

    Eric, on February 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    Hi people… :)

    Moniboniz, on February 20th, 2009 at 6:39 am

    Or you could NOT use your ipod while driving your bike because thats not very smart.

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