It is always advisable to cast off loosely.
When it is requisite to cast off, and continue the row on a separate needle, it is sometimes better to run a coa.r.s.e silk through the cast off st.i.tches; they are easily taken up, when required, and the inconvenience of the idle needle is avoided.
In knitting, when a pattern is spoken of, it means as many rows as form the pattern.
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