Crown decrease in hat with 14-stitch colorwork motif. The cast-on for the hat was 112 stitches; I wanted the decreases centered over the colorwork motifs, so I knit a few stitches before decreasing. If that's not an issue in your project, you could simply move the k2tog to the end and do the knit stitches all together -- k12, k2tog for round 1; k11, k2tog for round 3; and so on until round 13, where the instructions become identical for either option.

NOTE: If you're using this stitch map (centering the decreases), slip the first stitch to the end before beginning round 15. The stitch map doesn't accommodate this instruction, so the symbols are one stitch too far right; in real life, the k2tog continue to line up.

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