For my part I went to hats so that I'd definitely finish before the baby arrived, heh--I'm fine with deadlines for work, but I didn't want them for crafting (and sometimes babies are early, etc.).

The pic is really pretty!

Do you find that you "read" the stitches for crochet and/or knit, if you look back at the prior row, or is it more a matter of counting? It took me forever to read knitting (multiple years), which made checking slower and harder and thus meant bigger mistakes, more ripping back.