Im thinking outloud here.. bear with me and if this sounds reasonable, doable, let me know please. DIL is not able to have most metals touch her, that includes metal watch backs and bands, so she buys ones with plastic bands. Nice, but not for fancy dinners out, etc. Ever since I met her Ive wanted to create a special watch band that would avoid this issue beautifully. Here is what I came up with. I would create a rectangle of peyote exactly the width of the openings at the ends of the watch (the face would be the kind with a spring post at each end. I would slide the watch onto the band, having the beads go under the face. Then I continue weaving along both sides of the band, working around that area where the band goes around the post things. Will this work from a technical point, meaning, can peyote be worked from both edges? Will it cover the metal completely? The ends of the part where the springy posts fit in... thats the one part that bugs me. For a clasp, a loop of seeds on one end, and a nice button on the other.. perhaps polyclay? Polyclay that has beads on it? :-) I havent ever done any bead weaving before, but I think this is going to be fun!!
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