Knitting

Not sure, I don't do lacy patterns, I hope someone can help you. Perhaps if you email Patons or the firm/shop where you bought the pattern they can help you - we have a couple of wool shops in our town and the owners are always most knowledgeable and helpful.

Hope it's not for a Christmas present and you get it finished if it is!

Strange but ignore the grey boxes and move to next stitch is the usual thing.
I will ask my friend who is a very good knitter later today. Good luck.

You could try asking on Ravelry:
www.ravelry.com

You may have to join but it is free

Thank you so much all of you. Yes it was a Christmas present for my daughter, time is running out on me. However we will get some more
cold weather, so she can wear the hat.

Is it a printed pattern or a downloaded one? Sometimes with downloads your PC can't find the right symbol or emoticon so it just uses an empty box.

New Year present?

It's a patrons paper pattern. Since my last post I took your advice and got in touch with the people that sells the pattern
Alice could not be more helpful.

She read through the pattern and discovered there was a mistake in the pattern
So now it has been resolved
Gransnet is great
A very Happy Chrismas to you all

Merry Christmas to you too Daisychain, hope the hat turns out well.

Merry Christmas Daisychain
I'm glad it got sorted - fancy that, these patterns are very expensive! It does look a very nice hat.

Now I'm feeling guilty as I should be finishing off two cardies for the DGDs.