Struggle. That's what this project was all about. The young artist had in mind to create an American flag on a loom using K'Nex. Well...he began using string as the warp and the K'Nex were way too far apart. He unwarped and rewarped with the string very loose. It was a disaster. We conferred and decided that elastic might be the way to go. It worked and worked well. I was very, very proud of this young man for going through the entire artistic process, struggling, and finally succeeding!