Cocoknits is a sustainably minded stitch-accessory company based in Oakland, California! As a small team of women who love to make things and love supporting other creative people and businesses, they believe that all makers should have beautiful, high-quality, tools to use in their craft.
CocoKnits has created some excellent tools to make your stitch life easier! Many tools are compatible with each other (the Maker's Board & Maker's Keep are magnetic wonders designed to pair with many of their tools!), and all are beautifully and sustainably crafted.
Want more CocoKnits? Check out their Sweater Care Collection, and their Accessories & Organizational goodies!
CocoKnits Maker's Board
The Maker's Board is one accessory that can do a lot! Made with washable kraft fabric, there are internal metal sheets that make every surface magnetic. You can stick a chart on one surface, your pattern on another, and when you prop one side up for display, the angle is completely adjustable, making it even more versatile. Use the strong magnets included to keep small tools, charts, patterns, recipes, and more at hand while you’re working. The Maker's Board can help organize a variety of different projects - its uses are only limited by your imagination!
- 4 round magnets covered in PLA (made from fermented plant fibers called polylactic acid, which is made from fermented plant starch such as corn, beets or sugar cane. It is 100% biodegradable, not water soluble, and contains no plastic.)
- 2 small, round, uncovered magnets to hold tools
- 3 strong, uncovered rectangle magnets for propping board and holding other tools
- Packaged in a linen drawstring bag for storage or to use as a project bag
CocoKnits Ruler & Gauge Set
Designed to be used with our Maker’s Board, the handy Ruler & Gauge Set is also useful on its own. Magnets are embedded in the back of each tool so they attach to the Maker’s Board, or any metal surface. In addition to measuring and checking knitting needle sizes, these tools can be used as straight edges on the Maker’s Board to help track patterns and charts. Plastic free, they are made of PLA (plant fiber, 100% biodegradable plant fiber, not water soluble) in a charming speckled linen color.
- Ruler is 8” x 1” / 20 cm x 2.5 cm – with 3 embedded magnets
- Needle Gauge is 9.875” x 1.375” / 25 cm x 3.5 cm – with 4 embedded magnets
- Measures needle sizes US0-17 / 2 mm – 12 mm (including 2.5mm, 3mm, 7mm and 12mm that didn’t fit on our compact Needle Gauge)
- Made from 100% fiber waste called polylactic acid, which is made from fermented plant starch such as corn, beets or sugar cane. It is 100% biodegradable, not water soluble, and contains no plastic.
- The PLA is formed around the magnets, no toxic glue was used to secure them and they won’t come out!
CocoKnits Maker's Keep
One of the many advantages to knitting is that you can take it with you everywhere! And, in the process, lose little knitting notions everywhere! The Maker’s Keep magnetic bracelet is the perfect solution! It is a slap-bracelet so it fits everyone (one size truly fits all here). You can wear it, or simply drop it in your knitting tool bag to keep all the tools together – or even unfurl it and push the magnet to one end to use it as a straight edge while reading down a pattern.
In addition to knitting, I use mine for sewing (it’s great for holding pins!) and we have heard from customers who have used their MK for holding paper clips at work, hairpins (especially while doing hair for weddings!), nails and screws while working around the house, and even for fly fishing!
- Silicone slap bracelet
- Brushed steel-plated magnet
- Has measuring lines for inches and centimeters on the underside
- Fits any size wrist
- Dimensions:
- bracelet: 10" × ¾"
- magnet: 1½" × 1½"
CocoKnits Row Counter
The CocoKnits Row Counter is designed from the ground up to reinvent the standard row counter and maker your stitch life better! The result is the translucent and comfortably round Knitting Row Counter. It has magnifiers over the numbers for easy viewing, a wide button with a satisfying click to advance your count, and a lock to avoid accidentally moving the number dials. Numbers can also be rotated manually from the sides. The steel backing sticks to the Maker’s Keep, the magnets of the Maker’s Board, or any other magnetic surface.
- Windows magnify numbers
- Steel back means it can attach to your Maker's Keep
- Constructed of high-quality, translucent polycarbonate
CocoKnits Stitch Fixer
It’s terrible when you are knitting along and suddenly notice that little stitch you dropped a few rows back. Never fear, Cocoknits to the rescue! This two-ended hook tool makes it easier to pull a stitch up in garter or seed or any pattern with alternating knit and purl rows. The stitch fixer is made of steel so it will always be nearby on your Maker’s Keep or Maker's Board.
- Double-ended crochet hook
- US size D / 3 mm
- Length: 4" / 10 cm
- Made of nickel plated steel
CocoKnits Bent Tip Tapestry Needles
CocoKnits Bent Tip Tapestry Needles are an obvious addition to your steel tools collection and pair with the Maker’s Keep. A bent-tip tapestry needle is a ‘must have’ for any knitter. Perfect for sewing up seams and for weaving in ends, the bent tip slides under and through stitches with ease.
- Nickel-plated steel
- Bent tip helps you with seaming or working in ends of yarn
- Large eye will accommodate a wide range of yarn gauges
- 2.75 in / 7 cm long
CocoKnits Curved Cable Needles
Most knitters are familiar with the metal needle with the dip in the middle for holding stitches while working a cable. That being said the CocoKnits Curved Cable Needles are the perfect length to go on the Cocoknits Maker’s Keep – not too long that it will stab your arm, not too short that they’re too hard to use.
- Size US 1.5 / 2.5mm
- 3.25" long
- They are nickel-plated steel so will cling to your Maker's Keep!
CocoKnits Colorful Ring Stitch Markers - Small
We all know and love to use our stitch markers, but who hasn't lost one ... or a dozen? The CocoKits Colorful Ring Stitch Markers are the solution! Super smooth, steel based, nylon coated marker in a rainbow of colors – they also stick to the Maker’s Keep or any magnet. And now they are an integral part of the Cocoknits Method, in which the knitter uses specific colors to mark sleeves, body, front left, front right, etc. which correspond to the same colors on the Cocoknits Method Worksheet.
- Made of nylon coated steel
- Small stitch markers accommodate up to US 7 / 4.5mm needle.
CocoKnits Stitch Stoppers - Colorful and Neutral
The CocoKnits Stitch Stoppers are soft and flexible, and actually slide onto your needle to keep the stitches from sliding off. These cylinders are made of durable EVA foam, in a variety of sizes with an opening in the middle, that accommodates everything from size 0 (or the cord of an interchangeable needle set) to a US 15.
- Accommodate needle sizes US 0–15 (2–10 mm)
- 4 each of 6 sizes
- 24 pieces total
- Made of EVA foam
- Formaldehyde free
CocoKnits Leather Cord and Needle Stitch Holder Kit
When knitting top-down, seamless sweaters, there comes a point when you need to take your sleeve stitches off onto a holder. Safety-pin type stitch holders don’t work for this. Scrap yarn works, but tends to slip up into the stitches, making the job of getting each stitch back onto a needle laborious. You can leave them on a spare circular needle or cord – but it’s challenging to have needles and cord hanging everywhere.
The leather cord in the Leather Cord and Needle Stitch Holder Kit has the flexibility of yarn, but is firm enough to keep the stitches from disappearing up into themselves. The interior-threaded needle means you can knit onto and off of the cord – like a leather circular needle. The needles screw onto, and off of, the leather cord.
- Needles made of nickel plated steel
- Long Cord holds sts of sweater body – 59"/150 cm
- Short Cords holds sts of sleeves – 29.5"/75 cm
