A necklace for modern steampunk fans. This necklace will blend into everyday outfits, only revealing its awesome steampunkyness upon closer glance. Who can resist watch parts and brown beads?

• An old cheap watch
• Thick fabric (I used two layers of this faux leather stuff left over from a costume)
• Long, tubular beads
• Circular beads
• Strong glue (I used decopauge)
• Needle
• Thread
• 1 jump ring

Step One: Take the watch apart. You will be using the movement, aka the little thing in the middle that makes the watch work.

Keep the rest of the watch for other projects!
 

I used the watch face { HERE }

And the watch case { HERE }

NOTE: Unless you have specialty tools, it is very difficult to take the watch apart. I lucked into a watch whose back came off very easily.

Right now, however, I have three watches sitting on my desk whose backs I can't remove. I actually broke my miniature flat-back screwdriver trying to take them apart. You may need to have special watch wrenches to get to the movement.


Step Two: Cut out a circle of the fabric. (I used two layers and glued them back-to-back.) 

Glue the movement on. (If the movement has holes in the plastic backing, sew it onto the fabric.)  

Thread the needle and begin to sew on the long, tubular beads.


Step Three: Continue to sew the long beads on. I thread three beads on before stitching into the fabric. If you sew tightly, this works wonderfully. Otherwise, stitch after each bead.


Step Four: Sew the circular beads onto the outside. Use a simple loop stitch. The beads will be very messy and will not line up. That is OK.


Step Five: Thread the needle through the holes of the circular beads. This fixes the messy outside beads problem.

Step Six: Sew a jumpring on. Your chain will go through here.