The Rice Bag

I needed a large rice bag that could be wrapped around an aching body part so I re-purposed a Martha Stewart place mat.  It's just folded in half and then I sewed channels, filled each channel about 3/4 of the way with rice and sewed it all closed.  2 1/2 pounds of rice!  I thought about making a liner so the outside could be washed if necessary, it's what I do to make things more complex, time consuming and difficult.  This time I resisted that impulse.

It takes a bit more than just a few minutes, in my microwave, to heat this up but it does hold the heat a long time.

One does have to pay attention to putting the bag away in a dog proof spot.