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How to Make a Wheat Pillow

Whether you like your wheat pillows heated in the microwave or chilled in the refrigerator, both ways offer welcome relief from headaches or bumps and bruises. Wheat pillows are ideal comforters for children who are feeling under the weather since the gentle heat carries no risk of burning, and there is no hot water to accidentally leak out as may happen with hot water bottles. Choose natural fabrics, such as cottons or linens, which will withstand repeated heating.

Things You'll Need

Natural fiber fabric
Tape measure
Scissors
Pins
Wheat
Funnel
Needle
Thread

Instructions

- 1
  Cut a rectangle of fabric that measures 6-by-20 inches.
- 2
  Lay the fabric on a flat surface with the right side up. Fold the fabric in half lengthwise, so you have a rectangle measuring 6-by-10 inches, and then pin the open sides closed.
- 3
  Stitch around the open edges with a 1/2-inch seam allowance. Stitch first along one short side, and then turn the corner and stitch up the long side. Turn the corner and stitch along the second short side, stopping 2 inches from the end.
- 4
  Snip the stitched corners diagonally to remove the excess material. Take care not to snip the stitches. Turn the fabric rectangle the right side out, carefully pushing the fabric through the 2-inch gap.
- 5
  Pour the wheat into the pillow using the funnel.
- 6
  Turn under the fabric edges at the open part of the seam, and then hand stitch the seam closed with a whipstitch.
- 7
  Heat the pillow in the microwave for one minute.

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