Striped hats

These are two hats I recently knitted. In fact, the brown one I finished just today. They both follow the same theme for the pattern, which is stripes in a main and contrasting color, with a pompon of the contrasting color. Both hats have a self folding rim, which is  basically the same stockinette stitch that flows through the rest of the hat. The yellow hat is for the soon to be born child to my brother and bhabhi. I chose the color yellow because it goes well with the mood in India - bright and sunny. The brown hat's for my son. He's wearing it to his daycare on Monday :)
Here  are some pics of the hats while they were in progress and the finished ones...
Notice how I have used double pointed needles when the number of stitches were too less to fit comfortably on circulars.
Those are red marker stains on Aarav's cheeks btw...he did that while I was busy making his hats pompon.


Finished Hat

In Progress - working on DPNs

The Hat Bearer

Work In Progress - Still on Circulars

Even his hands are full of red ink! aarrrgghh...