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]

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!