Sprocket & innertube belt

Step 5 Yet more hole-punching!

You've now got a long strip of bike innertube with a row of holes at one end and a badass belt buckle at the other. The middle part, however, is plain. Boring. The double row of bike-chain bits keeps the tubing flat (like a regular belt) and adds subtle shiny recycled awesomeness.

Flatten out the tubing again. Mark two parallel lines down the length of the belt, with whatever spacing you want between rows of bike-chain bits. On my belt, there are 22 pieces of chain-bits in each row. The holes in each figure-8-shaped chain-bit are 0.5" apart on center, and they're spaced so that there's 0.5" from the center of a hole in one chain-bit to the center of the hole in the next one over. The chain-bits alternate between the flat (shiny) side and the not-flat (grungier) side, and are laid out end-to-end.

You could use this same pattern, or lay the chain-bits vertically or diagonally instead of horizontally, use different spacing, or stitch on entirely different beads/hardware/etc for decoration. Get creative with it, make it your own thing. Remember, though, if you're stitching chain-bits on, you'll need to punch a hole directly underneath each of the two holes on the figure-8 chain-bit, so your pattern will be made up of pairs of holes set a fixed width (0.5", in this case) apart.