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11. With light side still toward you, fold upper right strip backward and to the right: crease with thumb nail to make a sharp 45-degree angle immediately above the square; this exposes dark side of strip.
12. Take that same strip, and with dark side under thumb, turn it to the front, then left, and down, easing the end through upper right loop of square.
13. Gently pull strip tighter, until a sharp point is formed. Both sides of the point should be the same color, and there should be an open slit in the diagonal side of it.
14.Quarter-turn, and continue to work similar points at the remaining three upper right-hand corners.
15. When this much is done, the four points will all be light, and the square and loose ends will be dark.
16. Turn the square over, and make four more points with the uppermost strip in the four remaining corners: these will be dark and the loose ends light. The 8 points will be alternate in color.
17. With the light side facing you, turn and crease to the left each strip back upon itself, exposing dark underside. When all four are creased, take whichever of these strips happens to be at the extreme left, return it to the right, then turn under, back and up at a 45-degree angle, by holding the left thumb nail at the center of the square under this turn. It can be made sharp and neat, but do not crease the entire turn.
18. Take the end of the same strip and with the light side (same color exposed in the turn just described), facing you, insert it carefully into the pocket formed by the strip folded downward in the lower left corner.
19. Ease the strip through, until a corner of it appears through the slit in the lower left (dark) point, then pull through to make center point tight. Quarter-turn work to the left, make center points with three remaining strips on that side.
20. Repeat from step 17 on the reverse side, making certain that the points are pulled taut before clipping off the strips along diagonal edge of each outer point.
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