What does this mean

#1

Hello smart knitters,

I recently read a pattern and am confused.

This is a side seam shaping. The pattern says “dec 1 st at each end of 12th and 4 foll 14th rows”. The first half is very straight forward, but the second half is confusing. Does it mean dec at 12th row first, then dec 4 st at each end of 14th row? If it does, the side seam wouldnt be smooth.

Need your suggestions.

Thank you

#2

You’ve got the first part right (dec at 12th row first), and your halfway there with the 2nd part.

Instead of dec 4 times on row 14 you dec once on every 14th row following on from your previous dec row, and you do this 4 times.

So you dec on rows 12, 26, 40, 54 and 68.