Blue Wings

It's taken me all winter, but I finally completed my handlebar toasties for my bike a couple weeks ago. The weather immediately warmed up. I still need them in the mornings and I have a couple modifications to make before next year. I used pack cloth for the outer and inner most layers and two layers of polyester batting inside. The edges are taped with polyester ribbed ribbon. It's a little crinkly in the cold, but pretty wind proof and water resistant.

I think I'll add a fleece cuff where my hands go in and an elastic drawstring at the other edge so I can cinch it up and keep the drafts out where they meet the lights. I might also add some sort of clip to attach them to each other at that same point. Delighted that my prototype worked out so well and if I had actually sat and made them in one sitting instead of 10 they would have gone pretty quickly. They are so warm I hardly need liner gloves! Now if I could just get the snowplows in town to stop putting chunks of ice from the road up on the sidewalk.....I'm thinking flame thrower mounted forward facing.....