Continuing a shorter row after decreasing by binding off

Hi all!

I’m a beginner knitter and am working on a pair of easy baby booties from this link:

It’s based on a Ravelry pattern that involves adding stitches (link and details in her post) but the above blogger reversed the pattern so that you decrease a row by binding off part of it instead (cast on 26, knit 10 rows, cast off 10, knit 6 stitches, cast off the other 10, then knit 22 rows of 6 stitches). I’m more comfortable with decreasing than increasing so I did it her way. Went great for the first 11 rows.

BUT!!! I’ve just finished the decreased row (i.e. Just did BO 10, k 6 sts, BO 10) and now I don’t know how to get the working yarn in the right spot to keep knitting the 6-stitch rows! It’s still hangin out up there by the last 10 bound-off stitches.

So, what do I do now? Do I cut the yarn, tie it off, and somehow reattach it at the beginning of my new short row? Or do I just pull the end down to the beginning of the new row and keep going? Or some other way I haven’t figured out? Hope that made some sense to somebody haha…thanks y’all!

Erin

I think I see the problem. The instructions say to bind off 10 stitches then you finish knitting to the end of the row. Turn and bind off 10 more… then you have the 6 middle stitches left to work. Make sense?

Oooh you are exactly right!! I read that but I didn’t get it so I think I ignored it lol. Makes sense! Fixing now!

Erin