Happy Friday

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have already seen this, but I thought I'd share it here too. If you have phone charger thieves in your family, as I have in mine, I recommend you dress your charger up with a bit of crochet. Those sneaky pilferers will have a hard time making a case that it's their charger. This also works great for head phones, especially those with cords that tangle easily.

To make mine, I selected some leftover fingering weight yarn (variegated yarn works great) from my stash and found a crochet hook that worked with my yarn. I tied the yarn to one end of the charger and then worked single crochet around the cable until it was covered.

If you decide to cover yours, let me know. I'd love to see it.

ETA: It has been brought to my attention that this could be dangerous if your cord is old, frayed, or has hot spots. As with any charger, be sure to check you chargers frequently and dispose of any with exposed wires, or hot spots, and unplug your charger when not in use. If you choose to crochet over your cable as shown here, you do so at your own risk.

 ETA: Since a few of you have asked, the yarn is Cephalopod Skinny Bugga in Elephant Hawk Moth. Saddly, they are no longer in business.

Comments

[Rebecca]

Contemporary Victorian domestic embellishment...l love it!

[Stitched Together]

I love this idea. I don't know why I didn't think of it.

[Carole]

What an awesome idea - so clever! Thank you!

[marylou]

Cool - I just saw another version where you sew a zipper on the earbuds. I may try that one. In my spare time.

[Kelly-Ann]

So cool - need to put off learning to crochet! Please tell me what the yarn is, if you know it. Thanks.

[Sharon]

What a great idea, thanks for sharing it!

[Jane @ Handiworking]

Absolutely brilliant and beautiful!

[Kaye]

I love this idea! Teenagers beware, I have this new tactic up my sleeve.

[margene]

This idea could save me from myself.

[Suzanne]

I don't have any thieves around me but I love this idea to use some pretty leftover yarn. I do have some people at work that borrow my chargers though (and bring them right back) but this will help make sure they never disappear.

[Michelle]

This would be genius except . . . don't tell anyone . . . in this house *I* am the charger thief!

[Ruth]

I am the charger thief too, but this would be perfect for my headphones.

[Debbie]

Super clever! I think kids would love this as well. Thanks for sharing!

[Robby]

Love this. Trying to think of a way to snag the earphones from assorted nieces/nephew and sneak in a fancy look. OK, probably only the girls are going to like that, but still a great idea. Oh, and what is that yarn, it's beautiful.

[Beverly]

I may do this to make it easier to distinguish iPhone 4s chargers from iPhone 5 chargers....you are so clever!

[Sarah]

Best.
Idea.
Ever.
Thank you.

[Leigh Taylor]

I learned this technique from my great-grandmother when I was a little girl - she used to do this to cover wire coat hangers to make them "fancy!" (I still have quite a few that she made years and years ago.) I love the idea of applying this same treatment to chargers - totally going to do this!

[bluettine]

So good idea !

[Suzanne]

This put a big smile on my face.

[Crista]

I've done this with earbuds too.....No more tangles!

[Lois]

Do you recommend a dab of hot glue at the top and bottom of the cord? Or does the crochet and fiber width keep the cord covered?

[Lang Lucia]

What size crochet hook did you use?

[Yulia]

Thank you ! I don't have any charger thief'sin my home . But I have little kitten. He love to bite my cords . I think this will protect them !!!

[Meliss]

Isn't this a fire hazard? Those cords get hot, especially after they age... mine have hot spots & have ripped near the end from being bent & this just does seem safe.

[Linda Andrews]

When I saw this idea the first thing I thought was that it would help keep the cords from getting worn.