Pre-felting anxiety

As in significant, major, full-blown pre-felting anxiety. Is there any way in the world that this:

is ever going to look like a fire fighter's helmet??? Holy Guacamole!!! It's in the washer felting right now. Gulp.

And just to make sure that I was in complete freaked-out mode, I kept watching the skein getting smaller and wondering if I was going to make it. Fortunately, I did. But from approximately 220 yards of yarn, I had a whopping two feet left by the time I finished and wove in the end.