Knitting - help!

I can't imagine your pattern actually says "cast off 3 stitches at the end of the row". It might say "decrease 3 stitches at the end of the row", but the process for this would normally have been explained earlier in the pattern. So it would say something like "decrease 3 stitches as before at the end of the row" I don't agree with just knitting 3 together - and actually you'd need to knit 4 together to reduce it by 3 stitches, which would be a very clumsy and bulky end to the row.

Interesting, FlossieTurner, if I was watching the same one, the Aran Afghan.

I've never seen anyone knit like that either, rather like crochet style.

If you cast off 3 you have 3 fewer stitches.
If you knit 3 together you have 2 fewer stitches

I have just looked on you tube and there is a really clear tutorial about how to do this.

I would knit three together. This will give you a rounded decrease. If you cast off three at the beginning of the next row you will get a step. I assume the bolero is rounded.

Hi, Bluecat, I agree with Midgey, YouTube tutorial videos are great! I've used them often to remind me of things I've forgotten, or feel unsure about, in knitting.

When I was knitting a bolero for my granddaughter, I found a tutorial which showed me how to knit a picot edge, something I hadn't knitted before.

Give it a try!

I didn't find boleros that simple, Bluecat - do you have to pick up a lot of stitches around for the edging?

I think, if we don't use a skill regularly, we can forget sometimes how to do what we used to do easily.

You do usually decrease at the beginning of a row if it is more than one stitch . If it is only one stitch you can do it easily at beginning or end by just knitting the last two stitched together

I recommend doing what tanith suggests.

In fact, I'm sure the last pattern I knitted said to 'decrease at the beginning of the next two rows'.

Leave 6 stitches. Then K2tog x 3 ?

Try YouTube, it may have a video so you can see. My son tells me YouTube has the answer for most things!

I do the cast off at the beginning of the next row Bluecat not at the end of the row.

Knit 3 together?