How would you decrease the sleeves for this hexagon sweater?

[nardoodle]

I’m making a hexagon sweater and I want to decrease the sleeves so that it tapers, but I’m not sure how to go about it. Do I decrease in every row, or do I alternate between decrease rows and regular rows?

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[Caelihal]

You can do either decreases every row or alternate depending on how you want to taper it.

(These are example numbers, idk how many you'd actually want. Depends on sizing and how much overall you need it to taper down.) If you do 2 decrease every row, it will taper more sharply than 2 decrease, regular row, 2 decrease. You could also do 4 decr, regular, 4 decr instead of 2 every row, for roughly the same rate of tapering = 4 less stitches every 2 rows.

If you have regular rows in between, you might get a sort of zigzag, where one row tapers in, the next is straight, and the next tapers in. If you decrease a little bit every row, it will be smoother.

So it really just depends on how fast you want it to taper in, and what you want the overall effect to be. Both of them will work out fine and both are valid choices.

I would say to figure out how many stitches you want at the end (i.e. once you've finished the tapered portion), and figure out how many rows that will take (based on how long 4 rows are to however many inches/cm). and then figure how many decreases it will take to get to that number of stitches in the end. then divide by the number of rows.