He might not have made it to the moon quite yet, but one year on three-year-old Jesse has broken the world record for the longest loom band.
With a little help from friends, relatives, and well-wishers across the globe, Skye’s family smashed the world record creating a loom band stretching more than 12,000m.
Jesse, mum Sally, 37, and dad Andrew, 43, celebrated the achievement in Skye’s name with friends on Friday, where the loom band was laid out in at a leaky warehouse at Abingdon Business Park in Colwell Drive.
Andrew said: “The morning Skye died he said he wanted to speak to Jesse. The paramedics were downstairs and they said based on his [Oxygen] sats levels, he shouldn’t be able to communicate.
“He said, ‘Jesse, I’m feeling a little bit tired today. Can you loom to the moon for me?’”
Skye died at home last August from medulloblastoma – an aggressive and cancerous brain tumour.
Mrs Hall said he picked up the kids craze to create-your-own bracelets, and would make loom bands while in hospital.
She added: “He used to make loom band bracelets while he was being treated.
“One day he said to me, ‘I wonder how many loom bands it would take to reach the moon. Lets loom to the moon mummy’.”
Last week, Jesse, Mr Hall and his wife Sally, from Abingdon, entered the Guinness Book of Records with the longest loom band bracelet at 12,529.40m – the distance from Abingdon past Oxford to Wolvercote.
The previous record stood at 1,473.90m.
In July 2014 Skye set up a Facebook page called Loom To the Moon and in two weeks it had 12,000 followers.
Loom bands began to arrive at the Hall’s home from around the world including from Russia, Australia and South Africa.
The loom band was officially measured on July 19 and Jesse was awarded the Guinness world record on July 23.
In total the loom band chain measured more than 30,000m – but because of breaks in the chain only part of it could be counted into the record books.
Mrs Hall added: “It’s bittersweet. I don’t want a warehouse full of loom bands, I want Skye here.
“I feel so proud that Skye has inspired so many people.”
Loom to the Moon has raised £200,000 for the charity set up by Skye’s family: Blue Skye Thinking, which funds research into childhood brain tumours.
