John McCann - Loom Magic Xtreme!: 25 Spectacular, Never-Before-Seen Designs for Rainbows of Fun

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W e would like to thank our great editor, Kelsie Besaw, for her continued support on all of our endeavors. Thank you to Bill Wolfsthal, Tony Lyons, and Linda Biagi for making this project possible. A big thank you to everyone at Skyhorse who continue to do a wonderful job with this series. And our Xtreme thanks go to Allan Penn and Holly Schmidt for their creative collaboration and guidance throughout this project.

Thank you to all of the smiling faces of Loom Magic Xtreme! : Lucy Bartlett, Katelyn Clarke, Quisi Cohen, Morgan Glovsky, Alex Johnson, Jax and Nick Kordes, Charlotte and Griffin Penn, Raya Smith, and Ella Stanwood.

Special thanks to Nick Kordes for contributing the original design for the Glow-in-the-Dark Skeleton Hand.

hook: The hook is the off-white, hook-shaped utensil provided in the packaging of your loom. This is used to remove rubber bands from their pegs.

mini-loom: Provided with the original packaging in your loom, this is a blue plastic tube that looks like a capital T. This loom is a handy way to make chains like the fishtail stitch without using a large loom. To make this stitch, bands stacked on the mini-loom are moved with your hook and placed in the center gap over and over. Pull the chain out from the slit in the side so it doesnt stay inside the tube.

c-clip: A c-clip, as its name suggests, is a small, clear clip shaped like a c that we use to hold rubber bands together and are often the last step in a project. Some rubber band kits come with s-clips instead.

cap band: The cap band acts like a stopper for the last band on the loom, which prevents other bands from coming off the peg.

double-loop: When you need to use a cap band, double-loop means that you will wrap the rubber band (or bands) twice on a peg.

triple-loop: Just like the double-looped cap band, but with one more twist!

Set up your loom square: When all of the columns are evenly set on the loom; no column of pegs is set forward or backward.

offset: When columns in the loom are not square. For example, when the outside columns are set evenly and the middle column is set one peg closer to you.

Looping your project back: This is the last step before you remove your project from the loom. It connects your bands to each other instead of just to the loom.

To Loop Your Project:

Start at the peg indicated in the instructions: usually it is the last or second-to-last peg in your project, or the peg where you have put a cap band.

Use your plastic hook tool and slide it into the hollow space in the middle of the peg to grab the top un-looped band on the peg.

Then pull the band up and off the peg, pulling it through any cap bands or any looped bands stacked above it.

Attach the band on your hook to the peg where the other end of the same band is still attached. If there is more than one band, loop all of the bands on a peg before you move on to loop the next peg.

Pegs are typically looped in the opposite order from how you laid them out on the loom, but pay attention to any specific instructions for a project.

When you have finished looping your project, you should have a few loose loops remaining on the last peg on the loom: you need to secure those loops by tying a band around them or using a c-clip, or your project will unravel!

C upid could not have done it better himself! Incredibly simple and lots of fun, these heart earrings are great to give to your friends as gifts or to accessorize your outfit. These adorable heart earrings are super stylish for the fashionista in you!

Difficulty level: Easy

You need:

1 loom hook 2 c-clips 2 heart beads 2 fish hook style earrings 18 rubber bands

Set up your loom with the pegs square and the arrow pointing away from you.

Lay out a small pentagon shape onto your loom: lay a line of two bands across the bottom row, moving left to right. Attach a band from each corner peg in the first row, and connect it to the next peg above it. Attach a band to each of the outside pegs in the second row, and connect them to the middle peg in the third row.

Attach a band to the second middle peg, and connect it to the peg to the right. Thread a band through a heart bead, attach one end of the band to the first middle peg, and connect it to the middle peg above it.

Attach a band to the middle peg in the second row, and connect it to the peg to the left. Attach another band to the second middle peg, and connect it to the peg above it.

Triple-loop a cap band, and put it on the middle peg in the second row.

Starting at the middle peg in the second row, hook the band below the triple-looped band, and pull it off the peg, looping it back onto the peg where it began. Once you have finished looping the center peg, loop the top center peg, then the two outside pegs in the second row, then the two outside pegs in the first row.

Secure the loose bands on the final peg with a c-clip. Carefully pull the bands off of the loom.