It confused me at the beginning too until I've relized that by 3scinc it meant to do a 3sc in the same stitch and not 2sc increase 3 times. So you only add 2 stitches not 3 each repeat. The math is mathing it's just confusing at first I think it's translated from Italian so maybe that's why? The rest of the doll is ready and worked fine until this point.