"Perfect sphere" simplified

This pattern can be found in it's original version (in these parenthesis). Please be aware that it is in an online pdf file. Note: this pattern is not one that I have created. Please do not credit me as being the creator. I am making this post because a friend asked me to rewrite the pattern in a way she could understand. I'm posting it online, because I hope that if there is anyone else out there who needs it, you can find it.

1. Recommend using the Magic Circle. Stitch a total of 6 Single Chains (SC). Slip stitch (sl st) to close.
2. Put two SC in each stitch (st) available. When you go back and count them you should have twelve (12) at this point.
3. This step gets a bit confusing now. So I'll write it out per the twelve stitches. (You get 16 st when finished)
1. SC once.
2. Two SC in one st.
3. SC once.
4. SC once.
5. Two SC in one st.
6. SC once.
7. SC once. 
8. Two SC in one st.
9. SC once.
10. SC once.
11. Two SC in one st.
12. SC once.
4. In the next three stitches, SC once. In the fourth SC twice. Repeat until you finish the row. (20)
5. Bit iffy again. In the first four st, SC just once. In the fifth SC twice. In the next ten st, SC once. Then it's two SC in one st again. Finish the row off with SC. (22)
6. SC around. :) Really simple row. Gotta love 'em.
7. Now the pattern kind of starts getting caught in a mirror world. Where you once increased, you now decrease. (I recommend this method of decrease) SC in the first four st. For the fifth, you decrease (dec) a stitch. SC ten more times, then another dec. Finish the row off with some more SC. (20)
8. In the first st put a dec. SC in the next three st, then a dec. Repeat until the row ends (should be on an SC 3). (16)
9. This one is like step 3. Only when you put two SC in one st, you are not decreasing a st. (12)
10. And now in this final step you will decrease across. Fasten off.

At this point you should stuff it. Using the loose end (commonly called the "tail"), weave the yarn through the last row is stitches. Pull it tight, and knot it off.

Congrats. You've finished reading (and hopefully making) a lovely little ball. :) If you're like my friend Dee it will be full of catnip now too. :D