Stripy Sensations

(Two posts in one day, within 2.5 hours of each other... What has the world come to?)

So I was getting at the intermediate Innocent hat level, which is no more difficult than the beginner level, in my opinion, it is just more of a hassle with having two balls of yarn attached and moving them around so that you do not accidentally knit in a thread you're not supposed to (did not happen, but might have happened if I didn't pay enough attention). I choose the "thirsty caterpillar" colour combination from the website, because it looked cool, and then I wanted to do some sort of "piggy in the middle" thing, but the pink thread was so much thinner than the green thread that it would have looked really odd, so I just went for purple and light blue. Safe to say, these took me somewhat more than half an hour;

Ugly picture, macro is not my phone-cam's thing!

Yup, the second one is taller, which gives it the impression of falling over. It looks less hat-like, but it was easier to do, so I may just keep doing that (look at me, changing a knitting pattern with less than a week's worth of experience... I can feel this going down the "baking" route).
So the whole "sewing together" bit is still going a bit wonky, there must be some simple trick to this that I am missing, but as the point here is knitting and not sewing I can't be bothered to look up how to do it. And some of the hats I got from the bottles have far more thick and grotesque lumps on their insides (yes, I checked the insides of the other hats, I am that obsessed).
So next up is a more fancy and difficult pattern on one of the hats, and I think after that it is time to check out some other things, because I have the feeling that this whole hat-knitting thing is going good enough as it is. I do still have to make the little pompoms for the top, of course, but that I did in primary school, so how hard can it be? Time to check out my "Knitting for cool girls" book to see what cool things I will be knitting next (looks like a contradictio in terminis if I ever saw one)!