Spiral ....

Repeat Crafter Me is my “go to place” for crocheting hats. Her design is perfect for heads big and small.
She recently posted the candy cane hat and I thought I’d give it a shot. Her pattern is a little different than the one that I have been using and my first attempt was horrible and I decided to “do over”. As I started pulling out the yarn I thought that I could just start crocheting again and pull it out as I went … but I didn’t feel like trying the hat again, so I started making another Gnome.
Well, I wanted to try an adaptation with the Gnome this time and well … do-over time again. So now my un-doing process was in the process of do-over as my two attempts at creating were a flop.
So…

back to the drawing board and follow Repeat Crafter Me’s directions more closely. My problem the first time was that I just went all the way around with each colour, as if each colour was its own row.. but it’s not… together, they form a row.

So… I started marking the first of the row (or the last of the white section of the row, actually).
In each round, (see the pattern) you increase the number of stitches before you do an increase stitch. So I marked the beginning of this row with a stitch marker and when I completed the white section, I added another stitch marker. Then I finished that row with the red, all the way around to that first stitch marker (not the second one, which is what I did on my first try). …
Then I went back to the end of the white (second stitch marker) and start the next row pattern.

“Next time” ….
this pattern is quite boxy and it looks better as a bowl than a hat. I prefer the original hat pattern. So next time .. I will do up to the Row 5 and then do 2DC and dc in the next ten, as in her original design. When the hat is big enough, then I would do single dc around with no increases.

And with my hat I decided to end with a wide brim of red. I did a row of extended sc and then a row of hdc and then a row of sc.