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Help with knitting pattern- casting off sleeve holes?

My pattern says to cast off every other row at each side, 3 stitches, then 2 and then 1 but when I cast off the last 3 stitches from the row I am left with the last stitch on the needle with my ball of wool at the end, so I can't get on to the next row!! Have I done this wrong and if so, how do I undo it and how do I do it correctly? I have spent ages knitting this and if I have made an irreversible mistake right at the end I will be most upset! Thanks X

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1. Rather than doing both ends on every other row, I would just do the cast off at the beginning of EACH row. Same difference in the end. Alternately, you can slip those last stitches onto a stitch holder and then cast off on the opposite direction so that the free loop is where you need it to slip back on to your working needle. (hope that made sense!)
2. I don't think you did it wrong but did what I do and hope that I have enough yarn to finish. If I get this right you have more rows to do, so just take out a row {two if you think it is necessary and at the end of a row attach your new skein.