This hat really did take two hours more or less. I’m generally not a big needle/bulky yarn person, so it took me some time to adjust.

For the next hat, I’d add about four more rows to make it just a bit longer, and I would do a long tail cast on to make it more stretchy and since the first row is a wrong side row, I prefer the way the cast on row would look from the right side. I’d also leave a long tail at the beginning, since I prefer to seam from to bottom up instead of the top down.