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Watch This! Watch This! From "Jewelry Making" episode DJMK-310

Crystal Watch

Time may fly by most days, but these unusual and whimsical watchbands can make a busy day more enjoyable as you rush from one task to another. Styles include a simple stringing, using a clover weave technique on Beadalon wire; embellished braided bands with beads and charms; and Shrink Dink tiles decorated with an image-transfer technique as well as hand-decorating. Watch faces are decorated with crystals, markers, glues, paint, beads and charms. And if you want to make your own mark in time, we'll demonstrate how to make a stunning watch pendant.

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	Figure A
	Figure B
	Figure C
	Figure D

Materials:

Watch face with two attachments
A two-hole clasp
Approximately 110 2mm or 3mm crystals in pastel colors
30 5mm crystals
50" .010 Beadalon wire
Wire-cutter

1. Cut a 12" piece of Beadalon.

2. Thread the Beadalon through one of the holes in the watch face from the outside toward the other hole in the same side (figure A).

3. String a 3mm, a 5mm and another 3mm crystal and pass the Beadalon through the other hole.

4. Follow the schematic and string the beads for side one down to the last 5mm crystal.

5. Follow the schematic and string the beads for the second half of the watchband (figure B).

6. Pass the wire through one side of the clasp and string two 3mm crystals.

7. Pass the wire through the second hole in the clasp (figure C).

8. String the remaining crystals for side one.

9. Tie a knot in the Beadalon.

10. Pass one wire through the 5mm crystal and pull until the knot pops into the bead (figure D).

11. Pass the second wire in the opposite direction through several crystals.

12. Trim the wires close to the crystals.

13. Repeat steps 1 through 12 for the other side of the watchband.