You are very welcome, I am so glad I could help. That sounds wonderful, he will love it!

Thank you so much for clarifying Ms Bethany that makes so much more sense and I change colors after the double crochet right not the double crochet two together. I apologize for all my questions I’ve never followed a written pattern before I’m autistic and I’m doing my best I’m actually really proud of this hat it’s starting to come along well my plan is when I get to the top I’m going to put it on a hair tie instead of just the hole. If only there was a way to send you a picture of what I’ve made I changed the colors to red and green with my mid color being white for Christmas hat for my husband

Yes, so you will work one dc2tog using the first 2 sts of the plaid colorwork, and a single dc in the next st. The repeat is *dc2tog, dc*

Yes I’m finished with the plaid stitch on row 10 and am trying to start row 11 but I don’t understand the dc2tog compromising first 2 stitches. Each color is 3 stitches if I crochet 2 together what do I do with the 3rd?

Are you on row 10?