I am making an On Deck Pullover and I am having a hard time figuring out these instructions for the shoulder. Can someone help, please?
Right now I have 34 neck stitches on a holder and 14 stitches left for each shoulder with 2 balls of yarn attached. It says to
“BO 7 sts at armhole edge, then 7 sts at armhole edge.”
I got the first 7 stitches bound off with no problems, but then what? Do I knit to the end and then on the next row BO the next seven? I tried binding off the 2nd 7 stitches on the same row as the 1st 7, but that left me with one stitch and the yarn in the wrong place. :shrug:
You can’t bind off at the end of a row, as you discovered, so bind off 7 on the armhole edge, work back and bind off again at the armhole edge. That should leave all your stitches bound off.
since there are 14 stitches on each shoulder separated by the stitches on the holder for the neck, if I bind off the first 7 stitches, knit the rest of the way across, then turn and bind off the second 7 stitches, that will still leave 14 stitches (7 for each shoulder) on the needles. That is why I am confused…I am guessing I will bind them off in the next row, but it doesn’t say anything about this. Here is the whole section.
Neck and shoulder shaping:
K 17 sts;slip the next 34 sts to a holder.
Joining a second ball of yarn, k 17 sts.
Working both sides at once, dec 1 st at neck edge every row 3 times: 14 sts rem on ea side.
BO 7 sts at armhole edge, then 7 sts at armhole edge
