Mottainai Rice Bag Pattern and Kit

Give your treasured fabric scraps a new purpose with the Mottainai Rice Bag Pattern. Make a Japanese komebukuro (rice bag), turning small pieces of fabric into a functional drawstring bag that celebrates the cloth you already have.

Inspired by mottainai, the Japanese concept of “don't waste”, this rice bag sewing pattern encourages you to value and reuse fabric rather than discard it. Bring your saved scraps together in a project that gives each piece a place.

Choose your rice bag pattern or fabric kit

• Printed Pattern: a paper pattern mailed to you.
• PDF Pattern: a downloadable version of the pattern.
• Printed Pattern and Fabric Kit: a printed pattern supplied with fabric and stitching materials for the bag.

What's included in the fabric kit?

• Fabric for the bag outer, lining, loops and tulips
• One 100m skein of sashiko thread
• A sashiko needle
• Leather drawstring cord
• The printed Mottainai Rice Bag Pattern

Choose a printed or PDF pattern to work with your own fabric scraps, or select the fabric kit with printed pattern for the listed materials. This is a sewing pattern or pattern-and-kit option, not a finished rice bag.