A fun meeting/travel project! This is the second time I've done
this pattern, though this is the first time I've done it with
something close the the fineness of yarn called for. It's usually
hard to find fine-gauged cotton. And, I have to say -- I'm not
sure I'd bother going to less than size 10 again in the future.
Probably a function of my poor crochet skills, I found that I still
crocheted it fairly loosely, so the net gauge wasn't that different.
Views while blocking
Closeups -- Pineapple detail
(left) and corner detail (right)
Here's the first one that I
made, at some distant point in the past (yarn and dates unknown;
haven't made a separate project page for it).