Crochet help, wtf
I think I've got a few crochet people on the flist, so I'll ask this here.
I'm making mittens, and I'm using this pattern. I've never seen the following direction before:
Working in both lps, work 1 (2, 3, 4, 4, 5) rnds even.
or
Shape Thumb Gusset: Ch 1, sc in first 12 sts, [make (2, 3, 2, 3) sc in next sc] (2, 1, 2, 1) times, place a marker in the first and last sts made.
What in the blue hell is with the parentheses on either directions? I know what 'work rnds even' means (don't increase or decrease, follow previous pattern) but why the numbers? The second is even more confusing, once you've shaped a bit of the hand, then you have to shape the thumb and wtf is with the brackets and parentheses?
I'm making mittens, and I'm using this pattern. I've never seen the following direction before:
Working in both lps, work 1 (2, 3, 4, 4, 5) rnds even.
or
Shape Thumb Gusset: Ch 1, sc in first 12 sts, [make (2, 3, 2, 3) sc in next sc] (2, 1, 2, 1) times, place a marker in the first and last sts made.
What in the blue hell is with the parentheses on either directions? I know what 'work rnds even' means (don't increase or decrease, follow previous pattern) but why the numbers? The second is even more confusing, once you've shaped a bit of the hand, then you have to shape the thumb and wtf is with the brackets and parentheses?