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Firstly, grab yourself a spare needle that’s bigger than the one you’ve used for the main part of your knitting. This cast-off method can be a bit tight, and a larger needle helps keep it loose. If you’re going to be picking up stitches from it then you’ll need a much larger needle than you’d normally use.
A number of tutorials will tell you to pass the yarn tail through this loop and tighten to close off the bind-off. However, I find this creates a really loose tension at the end, so I suggest you don’t do that. If you’re picking up the stitches from the back of the cast-off chain then threading the yarn tail through maintains more of the structure of the last stitch, but otherwise I don’t recommend it.
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