Hat Update

Well, I've made a start. This hat involves knitting in the round on 9mm double-pointed needles. This is NOT easy.
I started with 5 rounds of the contrast colour:

Then added the main colour (in this case, that fabulous jewel point five hand-dyed wool). This involved purling a row which I found devilish difficult.

It will be VERY interesting to see what I end up with!