McCann John - Loom magic!: 25 awesome, never-before-seen designs for an amazing rainbow of projects

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ISBN: 978-1-62914-334-7

eISBN: 978-1-62914-335-4

W e would like to give many thank-yous to Kelsie Besaw, our champion editor, and to everyone at Skyhorse who worked with remarkable speed on this project. Thank you to Bill Wolfsthal, Tony Lyons, and Linda Biagi for putting this project together. Special thanks to Allan Penn, for your great photography and creative coaching, as well as to Holly Schmidt, for keeping us on track and making delicious sandwiches, and Monica Sweeney, for making sure everything made sense.

Our enormous gratitude goes to Jax Kordes as well as Olivia Sahagian for contributing such wonderful and unique projects to this book. Your ideas made this book extra special!

To all of the wonderful faces of Loom Magic!: Thank you Lucy Bartlett, Sally Brunelle, Quisi Cohen, Charlotte Penn, Noah Rotner, and Caleb and Owen Schmidt. This book would not be the same without you!

T his pattern uses eight bands to make a repeating circle shape: thats why its called octo! Or maybe its because youll want to make at least eight bracelets with this fun new stitch!

You need:

1 loom hook c-clip

49 rubber bands

Set up the loom with three rows of pegs, with the middle row set forward one peg (toward you). Loop a rubber band over the middle peg closest to you, then connect it to the peg one up and to the left. Loop another band around this peg and connect it to the peg above it. Loop one band around the peg you ended on, and connect it to the third middle peg. Start at the middle peg closest to you. Loop a band around this peg and connect it to the next peg up and to the right. Finish the rest of the circle as you did with the pegs on the left.

Loop a band around the middle peg closest to you, and connect it to the middle peg above it. Repeat with the next peg up.

Starting on the middle peg three pegs up the loom, repeat steps 24, looping the left half of the circle, then the right, then looping the pegs up the middle. Continue up the loom, making 6 total circles. Loop one band around the middle peg furthest from you, then connect it to the peg up and to the right.

Turn the loom around so that the arrow is pointing towards you. Starting with the peg closest to you on the right, hook the second loop down on the peg, and pull it up and off the peg, looping it back onto the peg where the other end is still looped. Continue looping the rest the pegs in the same way, working your way up the loom. When you have looped all the rubber bands back onto their starting pegs, turn the loom again so that the arrow is facing away from you, and find the first peg you looped. Use your hook to grab all of the bands on this peg, and loop another band through these bands and pull it tight. You can also use a c-clip for this.

Remove the bracelet from the loom. Connect the two ends with a c-clip.

T his unique design will wow your friends, and its a breeze to make! It will fit right in with the stack of bracelets on your arm!

You need:

1 loom hook
36 rubber bands

Set up the loom with the red arrow pointing away from you and the middle row set one peg closer to you. Loop a band over the middle peg closest to you, then connect it to the next peg up and to the left. Loop another band over this second peg, and connect it to the peg above. Continue to double loop in this way all the way up the left side of the loom. Do the same on the right side of the loom.

Loop one band over the last peg in the row on the left, and connect it to the last peg in the middle row. Do the same with the last peg on the right.

Loop a band over the first middle peg, and connect it to the middle peg above it. Loop a band over the closest peg on the left, and connect it to the second middle peg (where you ended your last loop). Loop another band over the closest peg on the right, and connect it to the second middle peg.

Move up to the second middle peg on the loom, and repeat step 3. Continue up the loom in this way until you reach the end.

Double-loop a rubber band and put it on the top middle peg.

Turn the loom around so that the arrow is pointing toward you. Starting with the second middle peg, hook the second band on the peg and pull it up and off, looping back onto the peg where it started. Continue looping up the middle of the loom.