Baby alpaca gold cable hat

I am posting pics of the beautiful gold cable hat I made last week. I love this hat because of its softness. I used baby alpaca yarn by plymouth yarn company and I have to say, I am addicted to their yarn. It is so soft and stretchy. I used a pattern supplied by them but I altered it from the original pattern. It originally had earflaps and was smaller. I did away with the earflaps and added two more cables around to make it bigger and one more in length to make it taller. I have posted pics for you. One while I was knitting it and one of the finished product. The coloring looks different in both pics due to lighting, sorry about this.