Feb. 18, 2011 Started. The designer uses a very, very loose gauge but calls for a 1.65 mm hook. I am only close, even using a 2.5 mm hook. I was never able to make mine loose enough.

ETA: Eleven rows in and I’ve already discovered this is a pattern where you have to keep your head up. There are some typos and omissions, at the least.

Feb. 21 The pattern is not difficult as long as your gauge is fairly close to the designer’s and you are aware that there are some instruction mistakes.

Feb. 24 At Round 24 it is already trying to curl upward at the edges. I added one more stitch in each chain run and it is improved. We’ll see if other adjustments are needed.

Feb. 25 For what it is worth, there is a picture with labels of the adjustments I made on Row 25 to give enough space for this to lie flat. It will continue to need longer chain runs to work properly. Next time I will work harder to get gauge.

March 4 This pattern wants you to crochet back and forth for roughly three rows in order to make the long, dipped-out scallops. She has you to break off the thread and then re-attach in a place about an inch or more away which gives lots of ends to hide. It is now working up to lie flat whereas it was a little ruffled before beginning them. (Picture, sixth from bottom.)

March 5 Renamed Old Wisteria. Wisteria should bloom before too long and this pattern reminds me of it.

March 9 Finished! (Used 140 g. thread.) As per the Mar. 4 entry, it now seems that all the tedious breaking off and re-attaching of thread was unnecessary! I could easily have slip stitched over the inch or so to the next “starting” spot because on the final round it will all be covered over with sc. Do not break off and re-attach, unless you just want to.

I am giving this pattern only two stars because of its outright mistake, its vagueness in some places, and for the unnecessary direction to break off and re-attach thread 16 times. I do think it is a beautiful design.

Found Errata and Confusions

Round 9: The last parenthesis should read (2 dc, ch 3, 2 dc, ch 3, 2 dc). The pattern has a mistake when that last number says “3 dc” instead of 2 dc.

Rounds 11, 20 and 28: As you crochet over the previous rounds where there are 16 dc, you will end up with 8 split clusters with a single dc between each cluster. The directions never say to skip a dc in Rounds 11, 20 and 28. So you split cluster in the first dc, ch 1, skip one dc, split cluster in the second dc, and so on… The final dc is skipped. (All these rounds have the Split Cluster directions.)