Help with this pattern:

[gkrah]

Peak and Curve of the hood:
*Decrease 1 at start (1 stitch), DC 27, increase 1 at end (30) turn, chain 2 Increase 1 at start (2 stitches), DC 27, decrease 1 at end (30) turn, chain 2 *Repeat last two rows two more times.
(You should now have 6 rows that incorporate the peak and the curve of the hood)
    1
*Decrease 2 at start (1 stitch), DC 26, increase 2 at end (30) turn, chain 2
Increase 2 at start (3 stitches), DC 26, decrease 2 at end (30) turn, chain 2
* Repeat last two rows one more time.
You should now have 10 rows – six 1 stitchinc/decs and four 2 stitch inc/decs and be able to see the peak and the curve of the hood)

 

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[magiccrochetfan]

First, please repost without the dark background, it is very hard to read!

Then, what exactly is your question?  

Have you made the pattern up to this point?  Or are you trying to read and understand it without actually starting it?  Sometimes directions are much more clear when you have the piece in your hand.  

[Granny Square]

Wow, if this is a scan and the pattern is printed on that dark background, I feel sorry for you.  Bad design on the publisher's part.

You know how to increase, and decrease right? (put 2 stitches into 1 typically, if more into 1 it should say so)  And decrease? (typically if it just says 'decrease', it means make 2 stitches into 1, if more stitches decreased it should say so, and this pattern does, sort of, but they could have given you more detail on how to do it--unless, is there a chart of terms, like "decrease 2 means make 3 stitches into 1, increase 3 means make 3 stitches into 1)?

Meanwhile, translating the first sentence - Dec 1 at start, DC 27, increase 1 at end (30).  The (30) should be the stitch count at the end of the row, some patterns give you that as a sanity check so you can double check that all is well with that row.  If you decrease 1 at the beginning that means (presumably) DC2together to make 1, and if you add 1 at the end (2 DC into 1 stitch), 1 stitch becomes 2 so the final stitch count of 30 works out  1 + 27 + 2 = 30.

Moving on, and assuming all stitches are DC, "Decrease 2 at start (1 stitch), DC 26, increase 2 at end (30)"  -- I think the bit ending in "1 stitch" means "DC 3 together, leaving 1 stitch", and "increase 2 at end (30)" means "make 3 stitches into the last stitch, which turns 1 stitch into 3 (therefore increasing by 2).  So the 30 adds up, 1 + 26 +3 =30.

"Increase 2 at start (3 stitches), DC 26, decrease 2 at end (30)"  I believe increase 2 means put 3 stitches into 1 (turning 1 stitch into 3), and decrease 2 means DC3 together, leaving 1... 3 + 26 +1=30.

 

Edited December 21, 2019 by Granny Square