make your first knitted hat

My fingers have been knitting and knitting for several days now, I'm SO slow!  I try to work on it in bed in the evenings and I caught myself working a little on Sunday between cleaning the floors and fixing dinner.

Here's a close up of the stitches...I'm still missing stitches and not realizing it until it's too late.  So, since I wanted to learn how to purl as well as knit, I alternated stitches in 4's.  This hat had to be bigger than the last and since I was using the same yarn, it wasn't hard to make it bigger without measuring...here's the end result.
​My little Jake!  It's perfect for him...I wonder if I could convince him to wear it all the time?  I'd be so proud!
In case you are new to my blog...this is only the 4th thing I've made.  I just started about 3 weeks ago.  If I can do this anyone can.  I love www.knittinghelp.com