Pattern Help Please!

[wealth...@gmail.com]

I am getting ready to try this Circular wrapping shawl pattern for
babies. But, I am having difficult understanding this part of it.
If someone want the whole pattern after not understanding this part,
please, email me off list and I will post it to you for further help.
Continue to work 2 sts less every 2nd row until there are 5 sts.
worked in
68th and 69th rows, end at outside edge.
Thanks so much in advance, Portia, Southern California

[Olwyn.Mary]

I would take it to mean that on every other row you decrease two stitches.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

[DA]

"knita...@earthlink.net" <wealth...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am getting ready to try this Circular wrapping shawl pattern for
> babies. But, I am having difficult understanding this part of it.
> If someone want the whole pattern after not understanding this part,
> please, email me off list and I will post it to you for further help.
> Continue to work 2 sts less every 2nd row until there are 5 sts.
> worked in 68th and 69th rows, end at outside edge.

There are directions somewhere in the part of the pattern that you didn't
post telling you where the decreases belong

> Continue to work 2 sts less every 2nd row until there are 5 sts.

Using the decrease method described in the pattern, decrease 2 sts every
other row which means knit one row with out any decreases and the next row
with 2 stitches less according to the pattern instructions for placing the
decreases.
When you have 5 stitches left you are done. However, there seems to be an
error in the instructions. If you are working from the outside of a circle
to the center, then the 5 stitches is correct. If you start at the center
then you would have many more stitches than 5 for the last round.
If the pattern is knitted in pie shaped pieces then the instructions are
correct in using the term rows instead of rounds.

DA