Quest to make a good Balmoral bonnet

[tulloch]

I have wanted to be able to make a good Balmoral for some time now. I invented a couple stocking caps. I got and tried one pattern and misinterpreted it a couple ways but still I am working on it. I followed it correctly and got something I am not satisfied with. I have made two blue ones and this second one, though too small, is getting there.

I present you with photos having already made inroads into a third that I think might fit me and get out some of what I think are unseemly puckers.

What do you think?