[AS.weighted blankets]

[wispfox]

So... I can find weighted blankets, as well as instructions on how to make them, which is good. (yay!)

But I'm not even sure that what I'm actually looking for is possible. I can approximate weighted blankets in the winter by piling lots of blankets on myself. But, in summer, it's too warm and/or humid for that. So I'm trying to find something which would have weight but no to nearly no heat retention (the equivalant of a very thin sheet, or nothing at all). I'm not sure this is possible, though...

(instructions), and a couple of ebay stores which sell them. Also, some other stores with sensory stimulation stuff, just because lots of them are nifty. :)

Comments

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

One part of my brain is going "Ooooh, weighted blanket sounds like such a niftyhelpful idea". Another is going "waitaminute", because, in the case of the home-made, if the weight is in the pockets, it's not going to be evenly distributed, and clumps have something of an opposite effect. (Manufactured ones seem to have solved that problem, but anything of a reasonable blanket size is very, very pricy. And layered multiple blankets confuse me, pile up in heaps, slide off the bed, and are generally unmanageable and, again, produce the opposite effect).

Ah well, good thing I can stand very large amounts of hot. :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

clumps have something of an opposite effect

True. But I figure there must be _some_ way to make a home-made one be not clumped...

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Tunnels, rather than pockets? And then overstitch the whole thing, all the way through? The same way you keep batting in a quilt/comforter from bunching, I'd expect.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Hmm... maybe.

If there were such a thing available as a sheet, rather than a blanket, it would _so_ be worth buying it instead of making it myself. ;)

But I am very amused by the chainmail quilt (http://www.livejournal.com/users/wispfox/520115.html?replyto=3346867) idea. ;)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you could take two sheets and sew ball chain (http://www.ballchain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=BCM&Product_Code=%2330NPS) in between them?

But yes, buying would be easier than making, and I like that everybody wants to make a chainmail quilt :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Ball chain: would likely depend on how heavy each one is, as it's much _much_ better to have the weight evenly spead out.

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

You'd have a problem with machine washability. Also, those are nickel-plated, which you don't really want anywhere near skin.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Ah. Yes. I kinda figured these wouldn't work so well.