Princess Loretta Crocheted Scarf -1916

This week I'm sharing my attempt at the Princess Loretta Scarf. The flyer has a colorized photo in addition to the black and white one and that helped make the stitches easier to see.
The materials needed for this pattern are:

• 5 balls of Princess Pearl Cotton, size 5
• Steel crochet hook No. 3 (2.1 mm)

I have about 5 small balls of size 5 Pearl Cotton but I didn't think it was enough to do this pattern so I substituted Knit Picks Stroll, a fingering weight yarn. I did have the suggested hook but after trying it with that one I switched to a 2.25 mm hook instead. The suggested hook made it very stiff and the yarn kept splitting.

The instructions say that the scarf should turn out to be 52 inches long and gave these instructions; "A chain of 79 stitches will make a scarf about 9 inches wide. This is a good width."  That's a gauge of 8.6 stitches per inch.  
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I went up a hook size but I don't think that the fingering weight yarn is much bigger than pearl cotton so I wasn't too worried and just assumed that it would be close. It was not close. I ended up with a chain of 53 to get a width of just over 9 inches. That's more like 6 stitches per inch.  Still, this is a scarf so it shouldn't matter that much and I really didn't want to find a lace weight yarn to do a 52 x 9 inch scarf. 

Rows 1 -19 are just single crochet stitches across. Row 20 is a star stitch and they give very specific instructions on how to make the stitch. Row 21 is single crochet again and you repeat those rows once.  Then you do a bunch more single crochet and then repeat the star stitch part again until the scarf measures 28 inches.  Here's what that looks like:

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Not long after this I realized the my stitches were much shorter gauge than what the picture looked like and this was going to take longer than I anticipated. I wasn't enjoying doing this stitch pattern with this particular yarn and decided it just wasn't worth the yarn and time to finish it. 

Here's the scoring:
Is the pattern easy to understand? Yes 1.0
If there is a gauge, could I match it? No 0
Does it look like photo? For the part I finished, I think it was close 0.5
Would someone wear it? Because this was a DNF I'm giving it a 0
Did I enjoy making it? No 0

Total score is 1.5

Next week I have fun photos from a magazine I picked up at a sale.  Based on the ad on the back cover can you guess the year it's from?