You may feel comfortable knitting and purling rows quite happily for hours, but when it comes to casting or binding off you might be making it harder than it needs to be. Once you learn this simple method for casting off your knitting you will feel just as good about finishing a project as you are in the middle.
The first thing you need to do is make sure that you know just how many stitches you are going to need to cast off at the end of a pattern. Once you know how many stitches to leave, you will be able to know exactly when to begin casting off.
To begin casting off knit two stitches which will leave you with both of these stitches on your right needle. Next, insert the left needle through the first stitch on the right needle and then pull the left needle up to pull the first stitch over the second stitch and right off the tip of the right needle.
Now knit one more stitch leaving you with two stitches on the right needle once again. All that is left is to continue until all of the stitches in the piece are cast off according to the pattern. Weave the tail of yarn left over, which should be two or 3 inches, back into the edge of the knitting. And now all that's left to do is clip any little loose end that might be showing.
As you can see, casting off really isn't all that hard at all. Once you know exactly how many stitches to cast off its just a matter of repeating these simple steps above to the end of the row and then sewing the loose end back into the edge.
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