Do It Yourself: Warm Hands

It occurred to me this morning that winter is, in fact, cold. This was quite a shocking revelation. Granted, this cold should be taken with a grain of salt because I wear sweatshirts in summer. Still! It is too cold, especially with no snow. At least if we had snow I could throw snowballs at my friends on our daily trek to fitness (*everyone sighs and whines*). This trip is horrible, not just because we are on our way to a horrible circular track in a stuffy dusty room, but the cold is killer on the hands. With this cold hand problem present, I'm ready to embark on my next project: hand warmers.

 ---side note: My camera is broken so I couldn't take pictures. I know this presents an issue, just work with me here and I'll post pictures as soon as I can.                                         

What you'll need:

• cold hands (or a friend with cold hands. or both.)
• white rice
• felt
• scissors
• sewing supplies (be they a machine and thread or thread and needle)
• microwave

Tutorial:

1. Take your felt and lay one piece (or end) over the other. Make sure there is enough felt for 2-4 layers of 3-4 inch hand warmers (2 if you want one hand warmer, 4 if you want one for each hand)
2. Pick a shape. Any shape. Your favorite shape. (I'm doing hearts because they're so cute and sweet and lovey.) Once you have a shape you think is fantastic, cut the felt in that shape. You should cut the fabric a little bigger than you want the actual warmer to be because some of the fabric will be used in the sewing.
3. Lay two lovely matching pieces of felt on top of each other, make sure they fit. Then, thread your needle and sew around the edges (if you don't know how to never fear, instructables is here) You're going to want to sew about a half-full centimeter inside the edges depending on how big you're making them. Leave the last inch of the felt un-sewn.   (<-- this is a very important step don't screw it up. It will ruin your project if you sew that part.)
4. Scoop the white rice into the little hole you left. Fill it almost all the way full.
5. Sew up that little hole now so you don't lose any grains. That would be an annoying mess to clean up.
6. Put your little pouch of warmth into the microwave for 30 seconds or so (it all depends on how long they need to be warm)
7. Hold the pouches. They are now hand warmers.

Bravo! Now your pouches of nice winter repelling warmth are done. Stay warm now and pray for snow!