Yes, I started knitting almost 4 years ago, but considering the 2-year hiatus, I'm a novice.

Here is where I'm stuck:

I'm knitting a little 3-6 mo. size baby sweater.

I was just finishing the back piece and was doing the shape shoulders section. Carefully (I thought) I followed the instructions and cast off 9 stitches at the beginning of the next two rows. Then I counted -- OK, I had 61 stitches, less 18 should leave me with -- accckkkk!

Reading the instructions again, I see that I should have been casting off *10* stitches for the size that I was doing.

So I thought to myself, well, I have to do another two rows of casting off, so I could just do 11. But then I thought, is that going to screw me up totally for attaching the shoulders to the front pieces? Would I then cast off 11 stitches instead of 10 for the right front and the left front?

Well, this seemed very perplexing to me, so I decided I had better just go back two rows. My little Vogue guide suggests that I go stitch by stitch for just two rows. Well, that's fine except -- I bound off the ends of those rows.

So, my query:

1. Could I get away with my minor revision to the pattern, providing I have the same number of stitches to match up at the shoulder seams?

2. If not, how do I unravel the bound off parts? (See, I am really a novice.)

Please help!
Shaun