Q&A for How to Make a Slip Knot

There has to be a hundred different ways to do this. I tend to use knots, though a lot of people don't do this because it either might show or you can feel the knot. Personally, I never have this issue. If you don't know where the knot is, you are not likely to find it unless you are looking for it. YouTube has hundreds of videos showing these different methods.

Yarn should rarely have a knot. It's easier to knit in new yarn than to join it with a knot. However, there are several ways to join yarn that has broken. The weaver's knot and the magic knot are two.

That is a very bad idea. Tying a slip or any other kind of knot around anyone's neck is a severe choking/strangling risk.

The answer to the previous question explains that a slip knot will hold if you place something into the loop part to prevent it from coming undone. Any one of the article methods can be used to make the slip knot around a pole.

If something is put through the loop on a slip knot, it cannot come undone. If there is nothing through the loop, pulling on a slip knot will undo it entirely.