Repeat the tenth exercise, but instead of stretching the telescoping loop until you can pass a shuttle through it, make a one-thread join into it. (You learned the one-thread join in the third exercise.) After you pull a loop of thread up through the telescoping loop, pull on one side of this loop to telescope the telescoping loop, then put your shuttle through the pulled-up loop and snug the knot down.
Repeat the tenth exercise a third time, but instead of using your marker to create a telescoping loop, leave it in until you are ready to make your join, then force a crochet hook through where the marker is, or use the marker to pull out a temporary picot, that is, a picot made of thread that the adjoining stitches cannot spare, and will take back when the tension is off. This method gives the same results as the previous one, but can be used when the ring is too long to draw, and when the thread is too rough to slide.
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