Chew Cool
​by Jack Huggins 

Step#1: Gather materials
You will need a pair of jeans, scissors, ruler, and marker.

Step#2: Drawing the 4 strips
Draw 4 identical strips onto the jeans no particular size but bigger better.

Step#3: 4 strips
Cut the 4 strips out.

Step#4: Stack
Stack 4 strips on top of each other. You don't need to trim the edges.

Step#5: Knot
Tie one end of the stacked strips into a big knot. It does not matter what kind of knot as long as you can untie it easily and it will hold a little firm.

Step#6: Layout strips
Lay out strips with the knot at the bottom. This step is more of a pre-step for the next don't try too hard.

Step#7: Criss-cross
Criss-cross the straps going over and under.

Step#8: Pull tight
Pull straps tight applying even pressure on all sides.

Step#9: Criss-cross again
Criss-cross the straps going over and under on top of the already done knot.

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Step#10: Pull tight again
Pull straps tight applying even pressure on all sides.

Step#11: Repeat
Repeat Criss-cross and Pull Tight until you run out of Jean material.

Step 12: Untie knot
Untie the knot we did at step 5.

Step#13: Repeat Repeat.
Repeat criss-cross and pull tight until you run out of Jean material going the opposite direction now.
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Step#14: Clean up
There will probably be a couple of loose threads you will need to cut off your finished product with your scissors do that now. And you're done.