Update: knitting scarves is easy. Knitting hats are​ not

So as many of you know I have been knitting for my learning project, I have so far been successful in knitting a scarf.  This surged my confidence and I felt like the knitting queen I had been dreaming of.  I may have been feeling a bit ambitious when I took on the project of knitting a toque for a bun.

This is the project I wanted to create.

DYI Messy Bun Hat | Loom Knitter Pattern for Beginners 

This seemed easy enough.  It says right on the cover ‘Beginner’, and I still was very much a beginner.  But I guess her version of beginner was much different than my kind of a beginner.

For starters, as a beginner, I only know 1 kind of stitch.  This knitting wizard knows much more than 1 stitch.  It took me at least 2 hours just to figure out all the different stitches she was using. 

What exactly is a purl you ask? To that, I say, NO IDEA.  Something to do with the cool line down the middle.  But other than that I am not too sure.

I know for sure I don’t know how to make it.

I thought I would be able to finish this toque in one day like I had with the scarf.  I was wrong.  This proved to be much more difficult.  Emphasis on the much more difficult.

Below, you will see my attempt:

 

What it was supposed to look like:

 

#FAIL