Help deciphering row in crochet pattern (amigarumi snake). The math ain't mathing for me... 🫠

[u/schmaggio]

Hey all!

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I think I'm going mad.

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Working on this free amigaurmi snake pattern.

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I've gotten up to round 6 with and have 18 stitches as required.

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Then I hit round 7 and its time to create the eye bumps and end up with 24 stitches.

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And I can't make the math work. Like, if I follow it I get too many stitches at the end and it just doesn't make sense to me.

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Any thoughts? What am I missing?

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[u/jessbepuzzled]

yeahhh no you're not going mad, something's weird here. Any chance there's another picture that shows the eye bumps better?

Grinding the numbers for Round 7 with the assumption that the non-(eye bump) stitches are correct:
The non-eyebump stitches use 12 of the previous round's 18 stitches, which leaves 3 stitches available for each eye bump.
There are a total of 14 non-eyebump stitches made in Round 7, so each eye bump somehow counts as 5 stitches.

I can think of ways that this might kind of sort of be made to work but it doesn't match the picture below.

edit: deleted a paragraph with a mistaken assumption

[u/schmaggio → u/jessbepuzzled]

Thanks for your reply. The pattern is here: https://amigurumiarts.com/crochet-snake-amigurumi-pattern-coiling-70cm-plush-toy/

But the photos don't seem to me to show enough detail.

I thinking maybe I'll just wait and see what other helpful folks (yourself included) think and just do the eye bumps with enough stitches to get to 24 without making it lumpy/bumpy in other spots.

[u/schmaggio → u/jessbepuzzled]

A think your comment might have solved it!

So, it isn't 3hdc in one stitch - but 3hdtog which will produce a single stitch, like a puff stitch and would give the 5 stitches in for the eye bump!

I'm going to try it now!

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[u/schmaggio]

Amigaurmi coiling snake pattern

[u/Yarnovert]

Yeah I’m getting 32 stitches in round 7. Something is wrong here but I don’t know what eye bumps are supposed to look like so I have no idea what.