Flax. Is there anything it can't do?
I haven't been doing much knitting recently besides working on the Orange Aran. Instead, I sang in a concert last night (I really like Benjamin Britten and Christopher Smart[of My Cat Jeoffrey fame]) and have done a bit of sewing.
I kept running across flaxseed hotpacks on Etsy, but the cheapest combo of a face one and a body one was around twenty dollars. So, instead, I got two pounds of flaxseed at Whole Foods (the two together were under six dollars) and sewed up two of these:
Each has two chambers and each seam is sewn twice. I came up with the size by measuring how big I wanted them to be and then trying the first one.
I then made cases for them out of scrap material. The cases are sewn shut on the outside so they're easy to rip open if they need washing but I don't have to fuss with closures.
Here's Caleb's, for his shoulder:
And here's mine:
For heat, I microwave them 75-90 seconds. They can supposedly also be chilled for a cold pack, but
