It is soft and slouchy and I love it! Made from my baby alpaca purchase, this hat is adapted from the Pacific Beach Hat pattern in the Aug/July 2012 Crochet Today magazine. The pattern was designed by Linda Permann. She used a larger hook and different yarn. I ended up having to go down to a size G hook and just used one skein of the baby alpaca, which I was told at the LYS is worsted weight, but honestly, it seems like a thin worsted to me, almost more like sport weight.

This is an intermediate level pattern, so it was a bit of a challenge for me. I stitched and frogged and stitched and frogged and obsessed for three days before I finally got it finished, but it was well worth the effort.