I’m trying to do a slope bind-off on the shoulders. I watched several YouTube videos and they all use this method:
But for some reason mine keeps leaving a big hole with a loose stitch. Here are a couple images to show what I mean.
What am I doing wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Welcome to the forum!
Are you binding off every other row? It looks like the slipped stitch may be carried over more than a single row.
Thank you salmonmac! 
What I did was bind off 7 stitches in the first row, and then knit the next row to the end and left that last stitch and untouched. Turned my work around and now I should have that untouched stitch on my right needle. Then I slipped my last stitch from the left needle to to my right and pass my untouched stitch over the slipped stitch as my first bind off on that row.
That was my understanding on how to do it after watching all the tutorials. Unless I completely missed something. The tutorials all seem so easy and straight forward but I can’t figure why I’m getting that giant gap.
I hope my explanation made sense. I’m pretty new to knitting.
That’s the way to do this sloped bind off and you’ve explained it well. I can’t see exactly in the photo but you’ll be able to tell with the knitting in front of you. I’m wondering if the blue dot sts are the initial bind off row, the yellow dot sts are the return row (the slipped stitch row) and maybe by the red dot there is another row or rows?
The only other possibility I can think of is something to do with the bulky yarn. I use this bind off whenever I can. @Jan_in_CA @notknittingknots @OffJumpsJack what do you think?
I just frogged that entire section so I can’t even reference back. Haha. But I think the yellow dot was the first bind off row. I was also wondering if it had anything to do with the bulky yarn and the size 12 needles I’m using. I think I might try one of the short row methods and see if I have any lucky with that. Thank you for taking the time to help. Really appreciate it. 
Looks like a short row was done between bind off rows.
That means you forgot to pass the bindoff over the slip sts.
That would also throw of your sts count on the next row (One extra).
I did a zoom in with my phone’s image software. I will need to use my PC to Mark it up. (Edit pending)
Hmm I thought I did, I could be wrong though. But I always made sure my stitch count is accurate.
I basically turned my work around leaving my unwork stitch on the right needle Then slipped the working stitch from left to right needle and bind off the first stitch by passing the unwork stitch over the working stitch. I hope that made sense. Haha.
I used the German short row methods last night and it worked pretty well. Although it was a bit confusing in terms of keeping track of my rows.
Thank you for helping. I’ll have to try this method again cause it’s way too simple to mess up but somehow I did. 
