Help with sleeve directions, please

How-to Questions
1

I’m confused by one line in my sleeve directions. It says:

Next row (WS): BO 4 (5, 6, 8, 7, 7) sts, p to end. For 45" and 48" sizes only: BO 3 sts at beg of next 2 rows.

Dec row (RS): K1, k2tog, k to last 3 sts, ssk, k1. P 1 row. Rep decrease row
every RS row 3 (3, 3, 2, 2, 2) times more, then every fourth row 3 (3, 3, 7, 8, 9) times, then again every RS row 7 (8, 7, 3, 3, 3) times.

Does the bold part mean that I do 2 rows prior to starting the decrease row? Or do I bo 3 and then go into the k1, k2tog, etc for the decrease row?

TIA!

2

If you’re doing the larger sizes, bind off the 3 at the beginning of the next two rows, and then start the decreases.

The bind off is the underarm, and the decrease rows are the shaping of the sleeve cap.

3

TY, TY, TY! I’m off to bind off. :slight_smile: