That right there is a finished giant slouchy hat for my dreadlocks. I adapted a pattern I learned from a Youtube tutorial to make it bigger. It seemed like my hair would likely fit in the original pattern but it'd be tight and I wanted to allow room for growth.

When I make John one I will take pictures of the process and post my own tuturial on how to do it. All I did to modify the pattern was to add extra increasing rows, meaning rows that get have multiple stitches here and there to help make a wider sac.

I used Red Heart Unforgettable acrylic yarn which was nothing short of a giant pain in the ass. It had the extreme tendancy to come off of the skein (the roll of yarn) in giant wads that loved to mat together and form knots. This yarn was slightly sticky in texture in that it stuck to itself pretty easily. Many of the tangles weren't even knots, it involved me pulling two nearly velcroed pieces apart.

The one thing I do love about the yarn is the colors but I'm not sure it's worth dealing with it. I find acrylic yarn to be pretty itchy and since I wear a lot of these things every day I want something a little softer. I have more expensive bamboo yarn in route, something I'm more than excited for.

The pattern said that one 100 gram roll would make two hats but mine certainly didn't. Between my alterations and mistakes like the one above I ended up with only a small ball of yarn left, usuable only for a border or something small. The photo above shows what happens when you do the exact opposite of what a pattern asks, you end up with something like this.

What a mess, it's supposed to bowl in not get frilly.

The purple and pink blend yarn you see is another full skein of that sort of yarn I have left. While I'll still use it, I'm honestly not looking forward to it.