Remember a little while back I fixed the fat base of a dread by pulling a load of hair out of it? Hang on, I’ll find the post…here it is…well most of the loose hairs I created weren’t suitably positioned to be incorporated into a neighbouring dread without then creating more base shape/size problems. The other day I decided to make them into a little dread of their own. I did the same with another cluster of tufties on the other side of my head which, again, if pushed into one of the surrounding dreadlocks would have ruined their shapes.

I made these two fuzzy dreadlings with a combination of twisting, ripping, backcombing, crocheting and just generally ruffling them around a lot, followed by palm-rolling (well, finger-rolling really!). There wasn’t exactly a lot of hair to work with! My skinny sideburn dreads started out similarly to these, so I reckon there’s hope for them, even if they do look a bit pathetic. I’ll keep rubbing and rolling them after each wash until some of the knots seem secure.

Newborn Dreadlocks!

I noticed when tidying up some loose hairs at the roots, there were quite a few areas where putting the hairs into the nearest dread wasn’t always the best thing, so I just left them. It’s easy to accidentally create a really flat long wide-based dread just by poking stray root growth into it. Maybe my scalp has expanded; there seems to be a great deal of new hair growth between the sections

So, I’ll be leaving some of the loose hairs until they’ve formed more substantial clumps that can maybe be grown into new dreads like the two baby ones I just made.

Yay for dreads