First watch band!

[motocouture]

Here are a few more progress pics. First one shows the top edge of one strap skived, turned and glued (over the aforementioned coffee stirrer), along with the calf liner skived on one edge.  The next one shows the croc glued down onto the liner; I then used one of my 1lb diving weights (lead shot in a mesh bag) wrapped in a handy tea towel to apply pressure without crushing the croc. 

[motocouture]

Some more pics of the process.  Here are the two halves stitched, followed by an inside view of the Apple Watch adapter installed on the band. 

Edited December 17, 2017 by motocouture

[RockyAussie]

Looking good and on the right track so far for a deployment type. @YinTx thanks for the compliment and I do likewise admire both yours  and motocouture's abilities and willingness to share as well. Like you I am excited to see the end results. I do think they are a lot more effort to get right than people think. Brian

[RockyAussie]

Wow ......Wow that was quick for a first time around and the results are better than I expected even from you. Don't think I've had to use this emoticon before.

PS. PM me your dads address before you come next and I'll shoot down a few more bits for you to practice on. Not that it looks like you need much more practice to me.

[motocouture]

4 minutes ago, RockyAussie said:

Looking good and on the right track so far for a deployment type. @YinTx thanks for the compliment and I do likewise admire both yours  and motocouture's abilities and willingness to share as well. Like you I am excited to see the end results. I do think they are a lot more effort to get right than people think. Brian

Thank you! And agreed on taking more effort than it looks like....Unfortunately, it turned out that I overestimated the size of my hubby’s wrists, and clasp side of the strap was waaaaaayy too long   ....so, back to the bench  to do some, ahem, rework....undo the stitching in preparation for cutting and seeing if I can rescue it...

[battlemunky]

Sorry you have to do some rework but even that part I'm appreciating following. This is an even more excellent thread!

[motocouture]

2 hours ago, RockyAussie said:

Wow ......Wow that was quick for a first time around and the results are better than I expected even from you. Don't think I've had to use this emoticon before.

PS. PM me your dads address before you come next and I'll shoot down a few more bits for you to practice on. Not that it looks like you need much more practice to me.

Making me blush here!  It’s such an enormous help to have the tips and input from this forum

thanks so much! Will do!

1 hour ago, battlemunky said:

Sorry you have to do some rework but even that part I'm appreciating following. This is an even more excellent thread!

Thanks! I tell ya, it was hard making that first cut into finished work lol

[A6C5O7]

Im excited to see the outcome! Keep up the stellar work! 

[bikermutt07]

It is looking fabulous.

[motocouture]

11 hours ago, A6C5O7 said:

Im excited to see the outcome! Keep up the stellar work! 

Thanks! Will post more pics today

 

2 hours ago, bikermutt07 said:

It is looking fabulous.

Thank you so much! Makes me laugh, whenever I stitch I think about gravy now