Heat Wheat Bags - homemade?!!

craftyfox

hi angie100 i make and sell wheat bags and i get my wheat from the local animal feed supplyers 25kg is about £6.50 i use old jeans and scrap material and have just made a batch in a lovely heat pattern material i have - they are really easy to make and if you would like to know more pm me and i'd be glad to help

craftyfox

have just added a picture to the blog you can find it here http://www.foxyscraftythoughts.blogspot.com let me know if this helps

tootiefrooties

Angie100 wrote: »

Not having much luck finding wheat to buy to make the bags. I had a look in Holland and Barrett and in Asda and had a search online also. Has anyone managed to buy a bag of wheat and if so where from. Thanks!

Tesco do 500g of wheat for about 60p. Probably not as cheap as wholesale or bulk, but still cheap and definitely convenient if you're doing the weekly shop anyway.

Mojisola

Wheat should be available in home brew shops.

bluenose1

craftyfox wrote: »

have just added a picture to the blog you can find it here http://www.foxyscraftythoughts.blogspot.com let me know if this helps

That is brilliant. It looks better than the ones I have paid over £10 for.

If you can't get wheat you can make these with long grain rice, though this would be heavier thean the wheat I suppose.
I think the ones I have bought have rice in.

bigmomma051204

oooooooh Crafty Fox - thats lovely. Where did you get that material?????? Where do you sell yours??? I'd definitely pay for one as pretty as that one lol.......not a scrap of 1990's caravan curtain material in sight!!!!! And much better than i could make i suspect (lol - sorry mum, "handmade" by someone elses hand is better than naff bag made by me or worse still, no wheatbag at all eh??!) :j

bigmomma051204

hello again all! Just a question.....what kind of style would you call the fabric that craftyfox used for her wheatbag!?? Its kind of american,new englandy type stuff - but i need to find something like it on ebay or somewhere else cos i HAVE to have one like that one! seriously!

Angie100

Yay bought 1.5 kg of wheat in the local Asian supermarket for £1.79 not too bad!! Have the fabric no just need to make up the bags!

craftyfox

thanks bigmomma for you kind words and i was able to get a roll of that material from a friend who has a home furnishings shop in my local village i make her little bits from time to time and she does me good deals on fabric i try and use as much scrap and charity shop fabric as i can but sometimes i have to give in and buy new if you would like one PM me

Cleosmum

Angie100 wrote: »

Not having much luck finding wheat to buy to make the bags. I had a look in Holland and Barrett and in Asda and had a search online also. Has anyone managed to buy a bag of wheat and if so where from. Thanks!

You can buy it in Countrywide Farmer stores. http://www.countrywidefarmers.co.uk/pws/Home.ice