Hat Project

I've finally started working on Drew's long awaited hat.  My first step is to make a small prototype before using the yarn that Drew chose for the final product.  Turns out, making a hat has its own challenges.  Here are my first attempts at trying to join my yarn in a tube form.

Needless to say, I was getting very frustrated and started to think that there was no way I could figure this out using YouTube videos.  I'm much more of a hands on, teacher in the flesh kind of learner.  But then I got this.

A tube!  Anybody want some leg warmers, because I am all over that!  This gave me the confidence to start on my mini practice hat after a good nights sleep.  I started with the "rib stitch", then moved on to the "stockinette stitch", and then added in a stripe.  So far, so good.

My next move is to see if I can properly decrease the stitches to create the top of the hat.  Drew has requested a grey hat with a couple of hunter green stripes.  I'm basing his hat on the pattern linked below.  However, I don't completely understand all of the pattern's instructions, so I will be going by one of the easier hat patterns that is in the beginners book that Kerry got me for Christmas.  Thanks again for that!

http://brooklyntweed.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_4&products_id=13