Weldon's Seventh Series - Wool Dahlia

My Seventh Series project is the Wool Dahlia. Weldon's says, "A very pretty antimacassar may be made with twelve of these joined together." I thought this would be a fairly simple pattern to follow since I had the photo to refer to.

The pattern uses double berlin wool (worsted weight) and they suggest three shades of crimson and a small amount of black and brown. They use a No 7 bone crochet needle which translates to a 4.25 mm based on the Bell Gauge. I didn't have three shades of crimson so used Brown Sheep's Lamb's Pride Wool in turquoise, lotus pink, deep coral, plum, and olive along with a 4.0 mm/G hook.

The first round was easy since it was just 10 double crochets in a circle. Then it got confusing. Round two says (terms changed to US): 1 single crochet on a stitch of the last round (easy), insert the hook again in the same stitch and draw the wool through, do 4 chains (all ok), wool over the needle and draw through the chain (wait, which chain? I just made four. It must be the first one to make a picot.)  I did all of this but it didn't really have the 3D effect the illustration has and this continued with the following rows. Somehow the picots got confused in the fourth row (the pink one) but I just went with it.
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The last few rows went fine but I don't love how this turned out. It's partially my color choices but also the weird picots didn't give it the bubbly look in the illustration. Either some little popcorn stitches or loop stitches might have looked better.
Rating:
Is the pattern easy to understand? Nope
Does it look like the photo? Half of it does so I'll give it 0.5
Would someone wear or use this? Maybe.  0.5
Did I enjoy making it? I enjoyed this less than I expected. I usually like making flowers and sometimes I enjoy figuring out the confusing directions but I just didn't like doing the first half. 0.5

Final score 1.5 out of 4