Frustrating dutch braid!

I confess, I just can't make a  dutch braid. I try and try and most of the time it becomes a big tangled mess. It's almost embarrassing, I think I can do lot's of cool stuff with hair but dutch braid, no. I'm aiming that the end of this year I will master that skill. You can see some pictures of my learning curve but let's leave that to some other day, today's try was so pathetic. 

What I was about to do was a dutch braid from my neck to the top of my head and tie the rest of the hair to a knot. In the end this is what I managed to do. Well, this hair was very suitable for gym.