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This is one of Our Little Homestead Projects. Heating Pads! Anyone who's ever had an aching muscle appreciates these little gems.
These are very simple to make. We make them for our own family, as gifts for others, and to sell at the Farmers Markets with our other homestead wares.
You can make these any way you choose. We take a 'fat quarter' size piece of fabric or close to that size and make oblong ones for behind the neck. Be sure to DOUBLE THE FABRIC as the contents inside can get HOT. Sew your 3 sides, fill with wheat berries, rice, or dried feed corn and sew up the 4th side. We use wheat berries because we have not experienced an odor problem with prolonged use.
You could dress them up a bit. Take some embroidery floss and go over the two ends with thick, colorful stitches. You can get a very creative here depending on your preferences. My children, ages 8 and 5, help me make these, so that should indicate how easy it is!
When you are finished assembling it, toss it in the microwave for about 2 - 4 minutes and you have a heating pad for those sore muscles! My husband has two, and probably wouldn't mind a couple more for those really sore muscle days!
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