Now that everyone has been gifted their rice bag for Christmas, I can share a quick how to so you can make some for your own warmth! They provide a steady source of heat for pain relief, for warming up in cold weather, or preventing cold! A pair of hearts and two others for pure coziness. (These rice bags can also be kept in a freezer and molded around the body for cold packs.) I used scraps leftover from other projects and making the two pictured above took less than two hours, including going through the fabric stash, cutting the right size pattern, and making everything. You can probably do it in less – depending on how often you get side tracked in the fabric stash. Or am I the only one? The hearts are a play on the old saying “cold hands, warm heart.” I made round hearts to ... [Read More]