Picking up.....moving on

After much deliberation and a few desperate calls to my knitting guru, I finally decided to sack up and finish the kitty hat with double points. Going slowly and carefully, I made all the reductions just fine and finished the hat off. The next step is picking up stitches along the cast off edge to make the ear flaps, and picking up stitches on the top to make the kitty ears. I have read a couple different explanations of picking up stitches and have even tried to pick some up. I got it to work, but I have no idea if I'm doing it right. I guess I'll just have to see.......