Easy draft blockers?

[Think of Winter]

Anyone made these? I'm looking for easy ideas. I was thinking about making rectangles stuffed with wool and rice, then washable pillowcases for them. But this seems like a lot of work, especially since I'll first have to wash some of the raw wool that's been stinking up our shed (and, more recently, our scarecrow) for months.

[Ghislaine]

My mom always (and I've done it once) made these by buying I think it was 1/8th of a yard of fabric then sewing it into a tube with one end closed up before filling it with sand. Close up the open end and you've got your draft blocker.

[Ifluffedthree]

I use fabric/rice - make a tube.

[Jyotsna]

I posted alot of information about draft dodgers in my blog back in November. Feel free to check it out. There are links you can follow.

Jyotsna
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[cristeen]

Draft blockers are liable to get wet, so stuffing them with food is not the best of ideas. Probably the cheapest thing to stuff it with would be sand or a mixture of sand and pea gravel. They're really not a whole lot of work, even making pillowcases for them. What I did with mine was take a 45 inch wide fabric and fold it in half and stitch it so it was about 22 inches long. Then with the pillowcase I just do the same thing, but leave the selvedges intact and it doesn't even need hemming.

[Think of Winter]

Thanks everyone. That really doesn't sound hard, but I need to be led by the hand with new crafts.

Cristeen, I hadn't thought about getting wet!

Jyotsna, Your blog is beautiful!