For Christmas this year I made a fleece hot/cold pack. The inside is stuffed with barley and is sewn from a thrifted pillowcase. The barley smells a little wheatey when it is hot, but I also tried lentils and that smelled really bad. I didn’t figure out until it was too late that I should have used cherry pits or rice…
The outside is fleece I had leftover from a dog sweater project. I appliqued on a monster face, probably similar to some “ugly doll”, but I didn’t copy one directly. I originally made this for a new puppy–sleeping on a warm pack is supposed to be comforting when they are first away from mom, but it didn’t work out that way. The little tail is for chewing on. I saw something similar in the pet store but it was $8 or $10 and I thought I could make one for the cost of the barley…
