Shade Umbrella reveal!

I was thinking of putting this on my Facebook, but I thought it kinda defeats the purpose of having a blog!! So, here is my shade umbrella, inspired by The Crochet Crowd (blog post for it here.) and by using a 6.5mm hook (I think) with Red Heart Super Saver Light Blue and using this doily pattern. So, I had to learn how to actually READ the doily pattern first. That was fun due to the fact I had to read it right to left and then transfer it over so I could do it left to right. Since I have had plenty of practice doing this watching right handed videos, the transition wasn't too hard, once I learnt and remembered what all the little symbols meant. Anyway, enough rambling right? On with the pictures!!

EDIT: Just quickly, while I'm thinking of it...I did modify the doily pattern so it only had 8 instead of the 12 "groups" indicated on the pattern.