First Hat Success!!

Yabba-Dabba-Doo!!! It's a success! My first hat!
This is my niece Shanti who loves her hat and was wearing it non-stop. Both her and the hat are back in Japan where she is proudly wearing the colors of the "America flag."
My knitting buddies were right. I didn't knit 5-7" of stockinette stitch before I started decreasing. Now I know and have learned that some instructions are just plain awful.

I want to try a hat with earflaps next for my nephew with camo variegated yarn I bought at Wal-Mart, seen here.










I have completed one "side" of the heart motif scarf. I am using Lion Brands Chunky Wool-Ease, Cranberry color. LOVE IT!!
This pix shows it on the "pink" side, but it is actually a rich cranberry color.

And I have maybe 10 rows left on my Irish Hiking Scarf.

Happy knitting...