Hand-knitted chording devices?

Okay, knitting people, here's one for you: I want to do some work with conductive yarn. Specifically, I want to make a chording glove -- like a chording keyboard, but knitted into a glove.

After all, keys are just switches, and switches are just two contacts completing a circuit. So, imagine conductive pads leading to outbound "channels" -- insulated from each other by the surrounding nonconductive yarn.

Is this a job for embroidery, or is there a way to actually knit this?

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For want of a needle I cannot finish making my pimped-out EeePC carrier (padded sling bag, using webbing from a messenger bag that was coming apart), and thus must hand-copy a list of parts to take with me down to my Local Electronics Shop, where I must stop on the way to my doctor's appointment later today. Or just, you know, use a backpack, but it seems awfully silly to devote an entire backpack to such a tiny piece of equipment. My sling bag will be efficient and modular. If I want to, I can clip other things to it. Neoprene will protect the laptop itself from liquids and impact damage. The weight will ride nicely in the small of my back or at my hip. Only a needle, between me and this!

But no, I will be sensible and take a backpack, because it will be faster, and that way I can make time to go to the sewing store. (Neoprene is kind of a beast.)

Oh, and I should find a good oldskool punk patch to sew to the back of the case...