my first baby blanket pattern is not making any sense to me with this edging
For starters, I'm an amigurumi girly so blanket patterns are super new to me and this one has been challenging me so far, but I've managed to make sense of it. I'm now stuck on the last round of the edging and I can't figure out for the life of me what I'm doing wrong.
Pattern (has 90 sts from previous round and mine match that count)
Rnd 3: Ch 4, dc in same st, skip next 2 sc, [(dc, ch 1, dc) in next sc, skip next 2 sts] 7 times, † dc in next st, (ch 1, dc in same st) 3 times, skip next 2 sc, [(dc, ch 1, dc) in next sc, skip next 2 sc] 5 times, dc in next st, (ch 1, dc in same st) 3 times, skip next 2 sts †, [(dc, ch 1, dc) in next sc, skip next 2 sc] 8 times, repeat from † to † once; join with slip st to third ch of beginning ch-4, finish off: 38 ch-1 sps.
The 'skip next 2 sc' in the brackets are throwing me off because I don't think it actually wants me to do that on the 7th time otherwise I run out of stitches on the opposite side?
I've attached 3 photos. My finished attempt that I did a week or so ago (which I think is wrong). The attempt I did today of this which didn't work because I can't fit the '8 times' along the left side.
Am I meant to be crocheting the last [dc, ch1, dc[ up next to the [dc, ch1, dc in the same st]? Is that where I'm going wrong?
The third photo is the 90 stitches from previous round with a marker in the very corner stitch of the last round, I tried to work backwards from that point to find the middle of the [dc in next stitch, ch1, dc in the same st] 3 times, but that didn't work either so I'm lost.
I really struggle to read these patterns as a paragraph as it's very different to most amigurumi patterns, so this may just be misunderstanding something.
Anyone got any ideas where I'm going wrong?