What became of the Dreadlocked Yarn?

You might remember that the original jumper looked like this:



And when it was unraveled, the yarn looked like this:

 

But then I washed it in the machine on the wrong cycle, and it came out all matted:



Well...

I managed to separate it...
It was slow and tedious work....
And took longer than unraveling the jumper in the first place!!!

Never mind.

I'm now crocheting some of the "pre-felted yarn" into a beanie, and it's incredibly warm...