Warm Hands! (Cold Heart Optional)

by Sister-Diane on January 3, 2009

in Oddball Crafts, Tutorials

I’m a little slo-o-o-ow getting back to the blogging – I’ve spent this week catching up on all the gatherings that got postponed during Arctic Blast 2008. I do have piles of things to share, but need to re-set my office before I can bust out the photo rig.

All those lame excuses aside, here’s something I can share with you today: a little crafty hack I made for CraftStylish.

This ten-minute project has you making small, hidden rice packs for your knit gloves. You tack these bad-boys inside the palms, pop the gloves in the microwave, and presto! Warm, toasty hands!

The how-to is over here. Enjoy!

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  • You are such a smarty hearty! Don't you know I have a bunch of "magic" gloves stashed from when I was sure I was going to knit up a bunch of fun fur cuffs! Well I never knit up the cuffs, but I've still got the gloves, and a big ole bin of rice. I love this idea :)
  • That is a great idea!! I've always made rice packs to use in lue of a heating pad but never thought to use them like that.
  • Oh Gosh! What a great idea!
    I'm always freezing! One question: is common rice?
    A hug from Portugal!
  • I love how they are sewn in, then you can't lose them!
    I just made boot warmers out of rice and socks, free instructions are on my blog. we've had little snow here in the other Portland, send some our way!
  • great idea! I needed some of those but on my fingertips for my cold bike ride today
  • How I would have loved these many years ago when I was in marching band in northern Ohio.
  • That's quite awesome. As a perpetual sufferer of cold extremities, I may have to give that a try.
  • Wow - we must have been sharing some crafty vibes across the country, because I was just thinking of doing this with cow corn. My mom's made larger heating pads with them for years, and I literally just thought to put them in handwarmers this past week. Freaky-deaky!
  • yay yay yay!


    Arctic Blast?


    Off to download your podcast.

    yay yay yay!
  • deb
    Diane,

    These are a brilliant hack. I can see tacking those rice bags over the wrists in gloves or gauntlets, then freezing them or zapping them to treat that constant ache from too much computerizing/knitting/weight training.

    Hmm..
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