I did buy her pattern when I was first relearning to crochet but couldn't make heads or tails of it because of being a newbie. I learned off of youtube :)
I've seen the crocodile stitch a lot lately, have not tried it yet, but certainly plan to one of these days. Geez, think I need more coffee, it hasn't reached my fingers yet, took me 4 attempts to type crocodile!
It's not really that bad to learn! I do recommend watching some videos first. Until I watched the video I was a little lost as to how to do it, but once I tried it I found that it can work up pretty quick. The trick is the increasing or decreasing if you are doing a hat or something. I gotta figure that one out still.