@Kat: although this is my pattern, it has been about 13 years since I last made a kandi cuff, so I am very rusty, so please take what I say with a grain of salt. Someone else might correct me. From what I can remember based on how I used to make them, yes you always need to pull through two beads at the end of a row. It is quite normal for the cuff/beads to appear slanted when you are in the first 5 rows or so. It can mean that the string isn't pulled tight enough. If the beads are genuinely misaligned, meaning the pattern isn't lining up correctly, then that normally means you have started a row on a wrong bead. As you work your way up the pattern, you have to change which bead you start at.