Aside from the creepy eyebrow picture - I had to dust off the old headband for my runs. When the air is cold out or it is even a little breezy, my ears will start hurting really bad. They are super sensitive. So this fleece headband or a stocking cap are a must.
In walks my biggest winter issue. I hate wearing ear buds under my headband! The headband puts so much pressure on my ear buds that they either make my ears hurt and uncomfortable or they cause my ear buds to slip out of place every 500 feet or so. I am OCD enough when I run - fixing this or that and dwelling on the fact that my zipper pull is making the tiniest clinking sound that only an owl could pick up, but I can hear it and it drives me CRAZY. So fixing my ear buds ever two minutes is more than I can handle some days.
Unfortunately, I have searched all over the inter-webs and have not been able to find a solution.
So I DIY'd an old back up headband. And by DIY I mean I did a little surgery on the poor trusty headband.
My thoughts were for the ear buds to be able to be inserted into the headband and not my ears. Hopefully, I could still hear my music once completed.
With sophisticated equipment - a broken piece of chalk from the junk drawer, kitchen scissors, my cross stitch needle and a left over piece of thread from the last holiday cross stitch gift I made - I began working my magic!
I marked where I thought my ears were on the headband and dove right in feet first. No pain, no gain! I made two cuts into the underlying layer of the headband.
I was a little concerned that the holes might fray or snag so I went ahead and hand sewed around them.
I am not a tailor or a seamstress. I can counter-cross-stitch with the best of them - but I am NOT a tailor.
I am a funny
Overall, a little a-symmetrical... but they worked and I could still hear my music on my next run!
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