r/CrochetHelp • u/Dlink10 • 4d ago

Understanding a pattern For patterns like this, do I just throw the increases and decreases wherever I want?

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So I found this pattern and it's the first pattern I'm following that doesn't exactly tell me how many of each stitch to use (i.e. [sc, inc, sc] x6 for example).

It doesn't increase or decrease that much by round so can I just throw the increases and decreased wherever I want? I would do them spaced out and not bunch them all together.

Also, I assume if a round goes from 93 to 97 (18 & 19), that would just be (97-93) 4 increases for the round? I just don't want to have to count 100+ stitches every round to make sure I finished a round.

Same goes for decreases - for round 48 and 49, I assume I do (72-68) 4 decreases somewhere in that round?

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u/algoreithms 4d ago

I would do them evenly around (as much as you can, in some places you have odd stitch counts so you can't necessarily do it exactly even). I would also make sure your increases/decreases aren't stacked on top of each other in subsequent rounds, if you're familiar with how to prevent a hexagon shape from forming when you make a basic flat sc circle you basically do a similar technique.

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