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Question

hi thanks for the response.

round 6 has 45 stitches then it says "work 7 more rounds increasing 9 sc every other round." does that mean to do 2 stitches in every 9th stitch, or do something else?

Answer 1

to increase 9 sts - take the number of sts that is in your round / divide it by 9 / work 2sts into that stitch all the way around.

eg. 45 divided by 9 = 5 - so work 2sts into every 5th stitch.

next time will have 54 / 9 = 6 - so work 2 sts into every 6th st on round.

Answer 2

Keep doing as you were doing.  Increasing in every X# of stitches as per my previous instructions.  I had figured you'd have 45 stitches on round 7, so I wasn't that far off.  You probably just started with a different number of stitches than I thought, or started on an even numbered row, rather than an odd one.

So I'll change my previous answer to...

Round 6: Increase in every 5th stitch, 45 sts (which you already have done, right?)

Round 7 and odd rounds, work even.

Round 8: increase every 5th stitch, 54 sts

Round 10: " " 6th stitch, 63 sts

Round 12 " " 7th stitch, 72 sts

Round 14 " " 8th stitch, 81 stitches total.

OK, after this I'm starting to think you made a mistake, increasing two rows in a row at some point.  The pattern said to increase every second row until you hit 81 stitches.  Then it said that you need to work 7 more rounds from round 6, which would put you at round 13 and 72 stitches.  Do you see what I'm saying?  It's contradicting itself.  Check your work, I'm pretty sure you've got a booboo somewhere, or the pattern was written badly.

Don't increase every 9th st.  You only have 45.  So your round would only increase by 5 stitches if you did that, and the instructions as you explained them earlier says to increase 9 stitches every other round.  Not in every 9th stitch.

Is there a link to this pattern?  I could probably explain it a lot better if I wasn't feeling blind on the matter, lol.

Answer 3

It means that you are going to increase the number of stitches in your rounds.  So on round 8 you are going to do 2 stitches in every 5th stitch, increasing your number of stitches by nine for a total of 54.  On round 10 you'll do 2 stitches in every 6th stitch for a total of 63, and round 12 you'll do 2 stitches in every 7th stitch for a final total of 72.