Hot/cold Rice Bag Therapy Pillows

I'm sewing up a bunch of these from scraps. I'll give them to family and friends.

The first one goes to my awesome mail carrier.


My scraps are bright so they look sort of like these and they are scented with eucalyptus oil.

 

I forgot to mention that you put them in the microwave, or the freezer.

 

I love those things. I use them all the time when my lower back go. That's awesome.

 

I always thought they were wheat though lol. I usually heat them for too long and I start to smell them and it just reminded me of like wheat. Now that I remember it I actually captured one to the side and I bit on it for curiosity and now I'm remembering texture and it probably was rice.

 

They can be made of wheat, flax seed, corn but I don't know what kind won't pop in the microwave!

I have an old cherry stone one that got a whole in it. I need to fix it.

 

Yeah. If it was corn I'd probably bake it... and then eat it.

 

Old tube sock and cheap white rice

 

What is a tube sock anyway?
To me, a sock is a sock. Goes on your feet.

 

Those 80's socks that go up to your knee. They still sell them at some athletic stores

 

Also makes a good door stop when it gets old

 

I had one for years. Given to me as a gift. It was great for my back. I lent itvout to a neighbor. She mkved back to canada and took it with her. Now I have to find another. My back has been sore for the last week and sure wish I had it

 

Yeah, the athletic knee sock but what distinguishes it as a "tube" sock is that it has no heel shape made into it.

 

Oh yeah forgot about that "tube" part

 

Lol, I thought there must be more kinds of corn than popcorn!

 

Those are some fun prints! What kindof material is that?

 

Cotton. Other fabric may be flammable.

 

Pretty!

I knew a girl with fibro and she swore by those things for her aching muscles.

 

ah haha! yeah, i'd be the kinda person to learn that the hard way j/k Actually, I was so excited about this, I read up on it last night after posting and realized how funny/scary/dumb my question might have looked to someone who knew better. Thing is, the material there in the image looks kindof velvety though, like that material on those neck pillows. You know it? polyester/spandex, I suppose. idk. That's what came to my mind on first glance.