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Old October 27th 04, 07:45 PM
Claire Petersky
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"B i l l S o r n s o n" wrote in message
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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.


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Old October 28th 04, 09:02 AM
Ryan Cousineau
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In article t,
"Claire Petersky" wrote:

"B i l l S o r n s o n" wrote in message
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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,
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Old October 28th 04, 09:47 PM
Karen M.
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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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Old October 28th 04, 11:25 PM
the black rose
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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

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Old October 29th 04, 12:03 AM
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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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Old October 29th 04, 06:18 PM
Karen M.
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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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Old October 30th 04, 02:00 PM
Bob Burns
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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.


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Mill Hall PA



 




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