instruction clarification

[billfantastik]

Hello Readers,

I'm currently knitting a COTTON CAMISOLE from CLASSIC KNITS by ERIKA KNIGHT. I'm stuck right here, can someone help me clarify this piece:

Dec 1 st @ armhole edge on next 9 rows, then on foll 7 alt rows, using an eyelet decrease on first of these decreases and every foll 4th row.

1. Am I decreasing 1 st @ EVERY row for 9 rows?
2. Am I decreasing 3 sts total in the foll 7 rows?

Thanks,
Kathy

[suzeeq]

Dec every row on the next 9 rows, then on every other row 7 times (would be over 14 rows) and finally every 4th row after that.

So the first dec is on Row 1, then the next 8 rows, and also on rows 11, 13, 15, 17, etc up to row 23, then on row 27.

[billfantastik]

Then how does, "using an eyelet decrease on first of these decreases and every foll 4th row." play into the rows? I know what an eyelet decrease is.

How many eyelets would there be and on which rows?

THANK YOU SO MUCH BTW!

[suzeeq]

Use the eyelet decrease on the first row that you dec, then on every 4th row after.