10/6/13: I’ve been slowly, but surely working on this baby. This little hook (4.25) is way slower going than the usual fat hooks and chunky crochet I’m partial to. It also seems a bit touch and go whether I’m actually working the pattern correctly or not, lol. I don’t think I’m following it exactly as I should, because I seem to have to keep adjusting stitches to make it come out right. It’s looking cute, though, so I will keep plugging along. ;) At this point, I have completed about 8” across of the top of the hat.

10/08/13: This has been my traveling project, hence the photos of the project in various places away from home. ;) I am discovering that the pattern definitely has errors in the stitch counts. I am attempting to adjust it by either skipping some of the stitches in each round, and/or adding extra rounds. I have added two extra rounds of the wave sections themselves to the end of the pattern, before the single crochet band…which makes a total of 6 extra rounds of the last described stitch pattern.

10/09/13: Completed hat…I think, lol. I don’t think the shaping is exactly right, and I only ended up doing 3 SC repeat rows at end, rather than the 5 called for. I think I would like it better if I had known to add those extra 2 wave stitch patterns at the widest point in the hat, rather than at the end, after the decreases. It would have been more slouchy that way. It’s definitely not perfect, but will probably pass as an OK try… What d’ya think?? :)