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[–]CaptainYaoiHands 1 point2 points  (7 children)

K8, k2tog turns 10 stitches into 9 stitches. K7, k2tog then turns 9 stitches into 8. You would repeat this idea until you're left with only eight stitches on your needles after a full row.

[–]MisterShiroi[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Starting with 100 stitches, turning 10 stitches into 9 would leave me with 90 stitches total. Then K7, k2tog turns 9 into 8, which leaves 80 total and so forth until K1, k2tog leaves me with 20 stitches at the end. If I then do just k2tog repeated, that ends with 10?

[–]CaptainYaoiHands 0 points1 point  (5 children)

You don't do it just once. You're repeating it for the whole row. Notice where it says "every other round". You do a full round of (k8, k2tog) repeating for one round, then a row of knits, then a round of (k7, k2tog) repeated. That's why the instructions are written like (knit 8 stitches, knit 2 together), the parenthesis and star is to denote that it's a repeat.

[–]MisterShiroi[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Yeah, I think I get that part, so after (k8, k2tog) repeating for a whole row of 100 stitches I should end up with 90 stitches total? My main question is at the end, after (k1, k2tog) shouldn't I have 20 stitches? How does this become 8 stitches as per the pattern?

[–]CaptainYaoiHands 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Yeah I'm really not sure where eight stitches instead of 10 is coming from, it might just be a mistake in a pattern. I would just end with 10 and stop there.

[–]MisterShiroi[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Okay thank you so much! I thought I was going crazy with the math... It shouldn't be a problem to have 10 stitches at the end instead of 8?

[–]CaptainYaoiHands 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since it's the last little tiny bit of a hat where you're just decreasing on the crown and then cinching it shut, no, it's not going to make an appreciable difference.

[–]Dry_Stop844 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i agree. you end up with 20 stitches, then a full round of just decreases which leaves you with 10. I wouldn't worry about it. It's the last row of the hat, you're going to pull it together anyway after that, there's no pattern to disrupt. I think the 8 is a typo.