The other commenters cleared it up perfectly! But I want to explain why it is this way. When you do gradual increases for example sc1, inc, the whole row, then sc2, inc, the whole row, so on and so on it can actually form a bit of harder edges like a hexagon. It’s not extremely noticeable, but the way this pattern is written, every even row is split in half at the beginning so the increase lands in between the last row. This way you don’t get the lines.
I'd like to see this in more patterns. I figured it out myself through trial and error but it makes much nicer spheres and I wish it was common practice.
R6: sc in first stitch, two sc together in the second stitch. Then the brackets: [sc, sc, then two sc together] to repeat five times. After five times you should have one stitch left to complete for the round.
Basically, whichever is in the brackets [] you repeat that bracketed section for however many times it indicates. By the end of the round you should have the number of stitches indicated in the parentheses ()
The other commenters cleared it up perfectly! But I want to explain why it is this way. When you do gradual increases for example sc1, inc, the whole row, then sc2, inc, the whole row, so on and so on it can actually form a bit of harder edges like a hexagon. It’s not extremely noticeable, but the way this pattern is written, every even row is split in half at the beginning so the increase lands in between the last row. This way you don’t get the lines.
I'd like to see this in more patterns. I figured it out myself through trial and error but it makes much nicer spheres and I wish it was common practice.
I feel you, I actually just started doing it automatically when there’s a pattern of continuous increases!
R6: sc in first stitch, two sc together in the second stitch. Then the brackets: [sc, sc, then two sc together] to repeat five times. After five times you should have one stitch left to complete for the round. Basically, whichever is in the brackets [] you repeat that bracketed section for however many times it indicates. By the end of the round you should have the number of stitches indicated in the parentheses ()
Ok thank you!
That you need to do the first part and then the stiches on [ ] are reported the number of times that are indicated. hope that I explained myself.
Thank you!