Head-sewn-on necklace

Etsy seller WeirdlyCute (an apt name!) makes these "Zombie Stitch" necklaces that make it appear that your head has been sewn on. Alice and I went as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein last year, and this would have made a dandy addition to my Sugru neck-bolts.

(via Neatorama)

Halloween Zombie Stitch Necklace in All Sewn Up - Weirdly Cute Halloween Jewelry [etsy.com]

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mkanoap

I recently saw instructions for making one of these.
It looks like this one adds a few details (little beads to keep the stiches spaced out) over the one linked below, but for the crafty types, here you go.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Creepy-Formerly-Decapitated-Necklace/
- CH
  
  The one above is really funny, made me laugh, but the Instructables one is amazing!!! I’m sure every non-decapitated zombie will sport a necklace like that, to hide the embarrasing fact!
  
  (And I’m so going to make one like that… good thing I’m a pack rat for craft stuff!)
  - mkanoap
    
    I really like the bit about the hanging needle on the one in the article.
flowergardenslayer

Frankenstein was the mad scientist, you went as Frankenstein’s monster. Just saying.
- http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul
  
  I see your pedantry and raise you… the monster was the child of the creator, psychologically, thematically, and in the monster’s own soliloquies. So the scientist was Victor Frankenstein, the monster (who named himself Adam didn’t he?) was Adam Frankenstein. Thus the last century of everyone calling the monster Frankenstein isn’t a peeve, it’s correct.
  
  So that’s the last time we’ll see that “well, actually” I’m sure. ;-)
  - jimh
    
    Well, actually, it’s pronounced Franken-STEEN.
- extra88
  
  Based on his sentence, Alice was the monster. I’m sure Cory made a beautiful Bride :)
Ben Burger

For a second I thought the necklace was sewn to her neck, I was like “whaaat? Oh I see haha”
emschelle

Wouldn’t it stab you in the neck if you looked down? Those stitches look fairly pokey to me.
jimh

Also, I think a dark red cord instead of black would be a nice effect here!
EH

Finally, I can dress up as a large black woman without having to do blackface! I’ll just be a large black woman who was decapitated and had a white man’s head grafted on.
http://echofox3.blogspot.com efergus3

Reminds me more of Sally’s stitching in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
http://echofox3.blogspot.com efergus3

Reminds me more of Sally’s stitching in The Nightmare Before Christmas.