Making a scrap-busting heat bag
During the week I made a couple of heat bags designed for the neck and shoulders.
I made them out of scraps.
Wait a minute, don’t I only do zero waste? Why am I doing things with scraps? Yes, I do generate scraps, but now they’re all of the useable rectangular type. Typically they’re the end of a length of fabric, from my stash, the op shop or where an online purchase can only be made in .25m increments. (Take a look at my scrap sorting here.)
(I borrowed it from the library, even though I’m not a quilter, and it was so good I bought a copy.)
I made two heat bags, one smaller and one bigger. For the smaller one (the top measurements) I used pieced fabrics. For the bigger one I used a jeans leg that happened to be the right width.
Unexpectedly, the small one turned out to be a better size.
I stuffed the hand warmers firmly and the heat bags with some space. I might have put too much in the denim heat bag – we think it’s too heavy.
The heat bags get microwaved for 1, 2 or 3 minutes depending on your microwave (and a handwarmer maybe 10-20 seconds) and used for shoulder and neck pain management.
Here’s some wheat bag safety – don’t put them in your bed!
Cheers!
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Look great potatoes work well too and your lunch is ready to go
It’s that Irish in my DNA
Ah yes! I recall Laura Ingalls Wilder used hot spuds too 🙂