This year’s eTextile Valentine is posted with my favorite DIY, How-To, Git’r’Done website. Instructables! Step by step instructions on how to se conductive thread, LEDs, 3V coin cell battery and your imagination to light up Hello Kitty! Now go. Make the world a more beautiful place!     Instructable

  Are you ready for this year’s Valentine’s Day project? I bet you’ve been waiting all year for this PUNCHY interactive Instructable! Beware tho – eTextile Love Hurts! Unlike last years STABBY Valentine this time – you will have to sew with poky pricky needles. Will you make a badge for your coat or a pillow for your love? Maybe […]

After sewing a piece of hardware into your textiles take your needle and thread and back stitch along the electrical trace to bury your thread tail. THEN clip the excess thread. This helps prevent short circuits because you don’t have loose threads near your hardware connections. Bonus – you don’t need unsightly messy fabric glue. ewwwwwwwww!

Today I began sewing Hello Kitty’s electronic circuits! Positive and Negative traces. Sewing the LED’s into the circuit. SPOILER ALERT: 2013’s How To DIY eTextile Valentine’s Day Project can be found on this page.

    The best conductive thread that I have used is no longer manufactured. Which means I am conserving my supply and purchasing a 1 pound cone of with a resistance of 15 ohms/foot. The diameter of this thread is larger so I use a size 24 chennile needle. It also has a bity tooth to the thread surface so […]

Supplies: battery holder, 3V CR2032 battery, conductive thread, LED Test and Sew. Sew and Test. GLOW!

How to get an eTextile workshop of electronic novices off to a solid start? Be prepared. Very. Very. Prepared. Start with a basic LED circuit. Add some colour!!! Make enough LED circuit badges for everyone. First day of the workshop we will add 3V battery and an LED sewn in place with conductive thread. I can’t wait to see their […]

Way back in April 2012 I was writing an article on how to weave LEDs into a conductive thread warp. I was frustrated that I couldn’t share the progress on the interwebz. In my tech world I support open source and creative commons. Yet, with media and competitions I have to respect first rights of publication. Its a difficult balancing […]

cotton mint warp with lavender cashmere weft Mistakes in the warp threading as well as the weft make the fabric unacceptable for this specific project. However it is super sexy in its simplicity. I’ll reserve final judgement until after I wet finish the fabric.

  My conductive thread supply is diminishing at the speed of light. Night and day I am weaving conductive fabric, sewing circuits or prototyping the next design. The thread supply is running out!     The conductive thread on this pink spool is no longer manufactured. As you can see – this is going to be a serious problem