Can I BO at both ends of a row?

How-to Questions
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Hi, I’m new to knitting, and this forum. (I’ve been lurking, however, and have used knittinghelp quite a bit in teaching myself how to knit)

I’m working on my first sweater, using this pattern: http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/kyra/kyra.html

My question concerns this part, from the Left Front Section:

Shape Armhole: Dec Row (RS): K4, k3 tog, k to end – 48(49-53-57-61-65) sts. Rep this dec every other RS row 3 times more. AT THE SAME TIME, when armhole measures 1(1 1/2-1 1/2-2-2-2 1/2)”, end on RS.

Shape Neck: Bind off 10 sts, p to end. Continuing to work armhole decs if necessary, bind off 5 sts at neck edge once, 4 sts once, 3 sts twice, 2 sts 3 times, then dec 1 st at neck edge every RS row 4 times – 7(8-12-16-20-24) sts.

The part I don’t understand is this: I start binding off on a WS row - I have to continue to do the armhole decreases for two more RS rows after I’ve started the neck shaping - when it says “bind off 5 sts at the neck edge once, 4 sts once…” do I do that only on WS rows, or can I bind of sts at the end of RS row?

Thanks!

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So you’re still doing arm shaping while beginning the neck shaping? You’ll be binding off at the beginning of rows on both the WS and RS.

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Well, it’s a cardigan, so the left front piece only has neck shaping on one edge of the piece. The schematic is here: http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/kyra/kyra_sch.html

If I’m still working my armhole decreases at the beginning of my RS rows, I can’t BO at the beginning of both my WS and RS rows - but can I BO at the end of my RS rows?

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You can’t bind off at the end because you’ll have a loop left, a big gap and no where to go. All your bindoffs on this kind of thing need to be a the beginning of a row…not necessarily WS or RS depending on pattern.