Bunny Body , Help please!

[Wildfire86]

Hi! I would really apriciate it if someone can clarify this explaination of the term and how to crochet them because I am also doing this kind of bunny pattern.

In the following sentenses from a different used goes like this:

 

Rnds 24: [sc in next 4 sts, sc2tog, sc in next 4 sts] 6 times - 54 sts.

 

Rnds 25-34: Continue as established, decreasing 6 sc evenly spaced in every 5th rnd - 42 sts.

 

Am I just repeating round 24 for rounds 25-34? Or am I doing an extra decrease every round?

 

 

Joined 08-February 06

Location: Ponderay, ID

Posted 18 January 2011 - 02:00 PM

Here's what you'll be doing for the next 10 rounds. I've written it out for you.

 

Rnd 25: Sc in each stitch around.

Rnd 26: Sc in each stitch around.

Rnd 27: Sc in each stitch around.

Rnd 28: Sc in each stitch around.

Rnd 29: [sc in next 3 sts, sc2tog, sc in next 3 sts] 6 times - 48 sts

Rnd 30: Sc in each stitch around.

Rnd 31: Sc in each stitch around.

Rnd 32: Sc in each stitch around.

Rnd 33: Sc in each stitch around.

Rnd 34:[sc in next 2 sts, sc2tog, sc in next 2 sts] 6 times - 42 sts

 

Instead of decreasing every rnd you decrease every fifth rnd (work 4 rnds without decreasing, work 1 decrease rnd)"

 

---In the round 29, I count only 7 stitches made. If my calculation is correct 7 stches X 6 times= 42 sts, right? Or am I undrstanding this wrong?

[Granny Square]

The math is right just looking at the end count and the number of decreases.  You would have started with 60 stitches in round 23, then decrease by 6 stitches 3 times (row 24, 29, 34), so 60 minus 18 is 42.

 

Think of Row 23 as having 6 groups of 10 stitches=60 (calculated reversing the decreases from row 24)

Row 24 decreases 1 stitch in each group of 10, so now you have 6 groups of 9 stitches=54

Row 29 decreases 1 stitch in each group of 9, so how you have 6 groups of 8 stitches=48

Row 34 decreases 1 stitch in each group of 8, so now you have 6 groups of 7 stitches=42

 

Here is a diagram of the starting count of 60 in row 23, and then what becomes with those stitches in row 24; sometimes a picture helps

row 23=xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx 

row 24=xxxxx/\xxxx xxxxx/\xxxx xxxxx/\xxxx xxxxx/\xxxx xxxxx/\xxxx xxxxx/\xxxx 

 

In row 24, the first 4 stitches are plain sc, stitch 5 & 6 are combined into 1, then stitches 7,8,9,10 are plain sc.  Ending count for each group of 10 is now 9 instead of 10.  So the other groups follow the same way, with each of the 6 groups starting with 1 stitch less than the former group than the prior increase.