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"B i l l S o r n s o n" wrote in message
... Karen M. wrote: Ride to local fabric store. Take helmet in. Go to polarfleece area. Select a favorite color/print. Take to cutting table. Ask for maybe 1/4 yard. (Total cost perhaps $2.) Take home, cut two appropriate-sized shapes to fit ear area. Add velcro tabs, or cut slits in fabric and thread helmet straps through. Use the rest to make a headband or mitts or a neck band. Guys don't /do/ crafts. Yeah, but they can tinker with their bikes for hours, huh? I'm not that great at either sewing or mechanical bike tinkering -- both drive me nuts with fiddly-fiddlyness with my hands and fingers. I'd rather read, write, or ride my bike a hundred times over than do fiddly fiddly. But Karen's suggestion doesn't sound that hard to do. Then again, I now have sufficient piles of big, fluffy hair I can just pull it down over my ears without difficulty if the weather's a little cold. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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"Claire Petersky" wrote: "B i l l S o r n s o n" wrote in message ... Karen M. wrote: Ride to local fabric store. Take helmet in. Go to polarfleece area. Select a favorite color/print. Take to cutting table. Ask for maybe 1/4 yard. (Total cost perhaps $2.) Take home, cut two appropriate-sized shapes to fit ear area. Add velcro tabs, or cut slits in fabric and thread helmet straps through. Use the rest to make a headband or mitts or a neck band. Guys don't /do/ crafts. Yeah, but they can tinker with their bikes for hours, huh? I'm not that great at either sewing or mechanical bike tinkering -- both drive me nuts with fiddly-fiddlyness with my hands and fingers. I'd rather read, write, or ride my bike a hundred times over than do fiddly fiddly. But Karen's suggestion doesn't sound that hard to do. Then again, I now have sufficient piles of big, fluffy hair I can just pull it down over my ears without difficulty if the weather's a little cold. Ironically, my hair is the shortest I've ever cut it. Impeccable timing, eh? I have a thermal skullcap that comes over my ears I've started wearing, but it causes helmet fit issues. Last year I found a fleece head/ear band on clearance for $1 at Old Navy, and cut it up to make two slip-on ear covers for the helmet straps. It's pretty good for $1 plus labor, and because the original band was two pieces of fleece stitched together (I don't know why) creating the slip-on just meant pulling a few stitches out of the original product and cutting away everything but the ear section. I do all the wrenching, remedial sewing (I'm a butcher with needle and thread, but I'm willing. I did a bit of cross-stitch at my mother's knee), and dishwasher-running. Leave most of the cooking and more than half of the cleaning to The Lovely One. It seems to work out okay. Last time I was in a fabric department, I was looking for cheesecloth so I could make jam, -- Ryan Cousineau, http://www.wiredcola.com Verus de parvis; verus de magnis. |
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Chuck wrote:
Last winter my wife gave me a pair of "Ear Pops" and I used them with very satisfactory results. They fit right over your ear and keep them snug and warm. Check them out at the following site: http://www.earpops.com/ $8.00 ?!?!?!? For 59 cents worth of polarfleece?!?!?!?!?!?!? --Karen M. clicking back to alt.sewing right now!! |
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Karen M. wrote:
Chuck wrote: Last winter my wife gave me a pair of "Ear Pops" and I used them with very satisfactory results. They fit right over your ear and keep them snug and warm. Check them out at the following site: http://www.earpops.com/ $8.00 ?!?!?!? For 59 cents worth of polarfleece?!?!?!?!?!?!? Not everybody can sew. I know my way around a sewing machine, and I can piece quilts, but I'm hopeless with anything that's even remotely related to something you wear. I've never yet made a garment that fit the intended wearer. It's hilarious. -km -- Only cowards fight kids -- unidentified Moscow protester http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts proud to be owned by a yorkie |
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On 28 Oct 2004 13:47:39 -0700, (Karen M.)
wrote: Chuck wrote: Last winter my wife gave me a pair of "Ear Pops" and I used them with very satisfactory results. They fit right over your ear and keep them snug and warm. Check them out at the following site: http://www.earpops.com/ $8.00 ?!?!?!? For 59 cents worth of polarfleece?!?!?!?!?!?!? --Karen M. clicking back to alt.sewing right now!! Actually "Ear Pops" are more than just a fleece cover. They have a spring-like framework that works similar to the old change pockets I used to use as a kid that you squeezed and dropped your dimes and nickels into. They fit over your ear and then "pop" closed to stay on and keep your ear warm and toasty. Chuck |
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Tom wrote:
I think there could be a lucrative niche market in affordable, functional cycle-commuter wear & accessories. OK, I dropped by a fabric store. Picked up three remnants of polar fleece (about $8 out the door). Experimented with the neon hunter don't shoot me orange piece. This morning I cut a rectangle about twice the size of the helmet strap triangle. Cut along the diagonal to make two of them. Cut a horizontal slit for the strap. Ta-dah!! (No s-w-ng at all) ASCII art (NTS) __________ |\ | cut along diagonal to make 2 triangles | \ | | \ | | \ | | \ | | \ | | \ | |_______\| ____________ \ / \ / \ / \----/ slit (about 1/2" in from edges) \ / \/ The remnant is large enough to make a set for everyone reading this thread. I'll post a photo or two once I get it refined, and sluggards can send me $10 for a set. --Karen M. |
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mtn wrote:
I'm hoping to keep my bike commute going through part of the winter. Does anyone have suggestions for keeping ears warm ?? I've tried a I broke my helmet in a crash recently, and replaced it with a Bell Metro. I was able to get plugs and ear flaps, and a rain cover, for it. ONly drqawback is the price- about $75 with everything. See the Bell web site for details. -- Bob Burns Mill Hall PA |
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