In case you needed further confirmation that these are dark and unsettling times, someone has taken it upon themselves to make a beanie hat out of beard hair.
At the 20th annual Beanie Festival – yes, it’s a yearly gathering of beanie enthusiasts held in Alice Springs, Australia – one intrepid knitter dared to go where no one had dared to knit and purl before.
Yes. It’s really happening. Someone has knitted a beanie out of beard hair.
It’s okay if you need a few minutes to process this disturbing news.
The ‘beardie’ joined more than 300 other beanies in the festival’s beanie exhibition.
ABC Australia reports that it’s ‘only the third’ beanie made of hair to ever be entered… Read the full story