Help with binding off both sides in the round

How-to Questions
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Hi all! I’m doing the Carla Sweater by Mayflower and I am stuck with this part:
“Cast off 4 stitches for the armholes on each side (2 on the front piece and 2 on the back piece). Set aside”
I get what it means, I just don’t know how to do it.
This is a video from Drops which basically is something similar, however, it doesn’t really show the process. Could someone tell me how she did a nice clean bind off like this (see around the 0:30-0:34 mark)?
If I start at the beginning of the row and bind off 2 Sts, then knit until the next marker and bind off 4 Sts, then knit again until binding off the last 2 Sts, I’d end up having to pull the yarn through so the last stitch is bound off. The Drops video seems to have used a different technique.

Help please?

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You could cast off starting 2sts before the beginning of round (so this is the last round just before the directions to bind off), continue to cast off 2 more sts after the beginning of round marker. Then knit across to the other armhole as you planned, cast off 4sts and knit across to the gap at the first armhole.
That makes it easy to get a smooth cast off without leaving the yarn end marooned in the middle of the bind off.

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So let’s say there are 70 Sts. In the last round, I start with the cast off on the 68th stitch, meaning knit Sts 68 and 69, pull yarn over, knit the last stitch of the round (70th) pull yarn over?

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Yes, that’ll work. Check when you get to the second armhole that you have the correct number of sts in the section that you just knit so that it will match the sts on the other section (back or front).

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Thanks again, salmonmac! This was driving me mad! Who knew the solution was this simple :slight_smile:

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So I did the bind off this way, and the issue that I noticed is that the two BOs (last round just before the directions to bind off) are a round shorter than the rest since, technically, the rest have been knitted for another round. Is this okay when it comes to sewing the bind off part of the armhole to the sleeves?

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That’s going to be ok. There shouldn’t be any trouble seaming the underarm. A single round usually represents a small fraction of an inch so the difference won’t be noticeable.

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Thanks a bunch!