IndigoMuse Knits

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Wrist Therapy Wraps

Thanks for your sweet comments on the Knitjas. I'm still tweaking the pattern and hope to have it up soon. As with Chichi and hopefully all future patterns, I'm going to give a portion of the proceeds to charity. Its not much but I certainly want to use my powers to do some good in the world if possible. I'm thinking that the Knitjas will help out Heifer's Kids 2 Kids program or perhaps investing through Kiva. Any other suggestions? I'm all ears.

I've made the Handmade Holiday pledge this year even though I haven't gotten around to putting the badge on my blog. However, after nearly killing myself the past few Christmases with pain inducing, frantic, last minute knitting, I'm going to use my crafting skills to primarily sew my gifts this year. So I've arranged my assembly schedule over the next couple of weeks and hope to give you some ideas for fun last minute handmade gifts.

First up, thanks to the crafty divas at SewMamaSew, wrist therapy wraps.
I used their idea for Rice therapy bags and tweaked the pattern so that I could make them into wrist wraps. I admit that I had a selfish motivation to make these because my wrists have been bothering me as of late from some very tedious knitting and its hard to keep something flat like the traditional cold packs wrapped around your wrist.
They have velcro to help them stay put and a homemade hot/cold herbal insert that was a blast to make. I'll update this post with a tutorial and more details when I have more time. I know some knitter friends of mine who will be getting these for holiday gifts (sorry to spoil the surprise). Perfect for crafters, seniors or anyone who has aching body parts.
Happy holiday crafting everyone!

6 comments:

Nana Sadie said...

Great idea!
(((hugs)))

Robin said...

WOW...they're wonderful, why didn't I think of that?

Keowdie said...

Great idea for wrist wraps! I usually don't have problems, but with the pregnancy... sometimes my hands & wrists feel so tired after a day of playing my guitar at work and knitting/playing video games with the "boys" at home. I might just make me some of those!

Short Sale Real Estate said...

I love the colors. This is great for Christmas time!

Thistle Cove Farm said...

Very Cool sheep fabric! It's SO difficult to find sheep fabric.
Hope your wrists soon feel much better.

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