Heat Wheat Bags - homemade?!!

mrs_baggins

finanlly managed to get some cheap whole wheat at a local pet shop. 3 kilos for about £1.65!! bought some chea fleece ametrial to make them and my dad made me put a scrap in the microwave as he reckins that fleece is made from plastic and so will burn. Put it in for 10 minutes which is way beyond how long a wheat bag will go in without anything happening to it. Spent today making 6 wheat bags with some lavender oil added to wheat and some lavender buds from garden. my roon smells lovely now!!

stormbreaker

I saw some fake fur(short haired!) and thought it would be nice but did wonder if it would survive the microwave. Might have to get a swatch now and try!

Mrs B. How many bags do you think you will get out of the 3 Kilos?

SugarSpun

What kind of shape would a wheat bag have to be to be specifically for a knee?

craftyfox

mrs b your bags are lovely :T and sugarspun i make my bags in a long tube that can be used in most places !!!! if you go to my blog you'll see what i mean http://www.foxyscraftythoughts.blogspot.com

plumtreebabe

Hi there,

We buy wheat for our hens as 'hen corn' and it comes at £6 per sack (and the nice man at the farm shop loads it into the boot of the car for me. What a great idea - i can just pinch it from the hens.

As for the weevils: you can kill the eggs by putting the wheatbags in the freezer, I think, just like weevils in flour, or I should imagine that a stint in the microwave when you finish them would also do it!

mrs_baggins

stormbreaker wrote: »

Mrs B. How many bags do you think you will get out of the 3 Kilos?

the bags i made were quite big and i ended up putting about a kilo in each! but 3 for £1.68 or therabouts isnt bad. plus the material which wasnt expensive

CandyB101_2

Here's a nice idea for making up a wheat bag

http://www.sewmuch4retirement.com/projects/gingerbreadman/gingerbread.html

irishgirl62

i got my wheat from the pet food store jolleys

newbie-2011

Hi All,

I was looking for important safety information about wheat bags and found some usual information on www. milliemaison .co.uk and just wondered if anybody had ordered from their website?

Thanks