If this were real...

I'd still be in stage one of the Tour de France! Maybe even not even on a bicycle yet. Maybe I've bought the bicycle but it isn't painted yet. Tour de Fleece, Schmur de Fleece. I'll have to pedal all four stages without a rest to make it to the finish line. I haven't given up yet.

I'm so frustrated by this challenge. I will persevere. Yesterday I decided that rather than ruin 12 oz of merino tencel I would do a color test. I mixed up a few blacks and browns and painted them on in nice stripes. I even took notes and measured. The hardest part is always the waiting overnight for the dyed bundle to cool. This morning when I rinsed I found black, purple, maroon. I think I might have mixed a little that was a successful kind of brown. Why is brown so hard to get brown? And black wants to be purple! Picture below when it dries a little.