Revived....dead fish hat

My model is Edmond Marsh, my son's Cabbage Patch Kid from 1984.









Adapting the dead fish pattern from Knitty.com and small mouth bass pattern posted on Knittingparadise.com by knittingema3, I came up with this hat that fits a little girl who is 1 1/2 years old.
The first problem I had with the pattern from knitty.com was that it said to knit in stockinette st until it measured 1.5" to form the lips.  That doesn't work when your using dpn because your not turning your work.  So referring to the small mouth bass pattern, she said to knit in round.  This produced the curling you need.
The next problem, when shaping the mouth you work back and forth using W&T.  This means you bring the yarn to front of work between needles, slip next stitch back to left needle, bring yarn around this stitch to back of work, slip stitch back to left needle, turn work to begin purling in the other direction.  Anyway, when counting the # of stitches in the pattern to knit the next row, sometimes the next W&T would fall at the same spot as the previous one. Wether it was me or the pattern that was causing this, you just have to make sure you go past the previous W&T before you make the next W&T or you will get a hole.
I learned another new stitch with this pattern, SSK.  This means slip two stitches as if to knit then knit  them together.  I had to seek the help of You Tube again at www.knittinghelp.com/video/play/slip-slip-knit-english to learn this one.
Thank you lady's for sharing this pattern, it was a challenge, but so cute.