Help with decreasing

[jess_izzle]

Hello all. =D I'm knitting a hat from a pattern I found here on lj. It's not too hard thus far but there's something in the instructions I just don't understand.

Crown Shaping:
Round 1: *k2tog, [k2tog, yo] 8 times*; repeat between *s around - 102 sts rem.What do the brackets mean? I get that I need to repeat that whole step on the needles between

Comments

[mamadeb]

You got it right the second time:

1) knit two together once
2) knit two together then yarn over

...and just repeat step two 8 times, before starting with step one again?

The brackets are a standard part of knitting patterns, and this was the correct way of using them - "consider these stitches a repeat inside the repeat."

[jess_izzle]

Awesome, thank you so much. =)

[moonpupy]

Okay, I'm lost. What's the difference between the first set and the second set? I flunked math a lot because of formulas. To me, they read the same.

[mamadeb]

It's a matter of grouping things together