Keeping me busy...

So, my wrists are still really bad, however, I have been back at my placement for a week and a half now and working on some dyed yarns to sell.  I have been continuing to use the Pure Tinctoria dyes and now have a collection of some beautiful yarns. 

Red Lac in the dye pot.

 Madder Root.

Some yarns drying in the sun.

Little rays of sunshine, I love the colour you can achieve with Anatto, don't you think?

And finally, I thought I would share with you some of the hanks wounded into balls, almost ready for sale at the Handweavers Studio and Gallery.  I am so excited to be selling them there!  Do you know how hard it is to do all this and then not pick them up and start knitting!  Hopefully I will get the brighter colours wound into balls either Friday or next week :)  Have a lovely day!

Bixa Orellana and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome...

Ok, so Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is taking over my life at the minute, I had surgery exactly a year ago yesterday and since about March/April this year, the pain keeps getting worse and worse, I also have a lump on the back of my hand which is worrying me, although it was diagnosed as a Ganglion Cyst two years ago, it doesn't feel like a cyst but a lump of bone?  Hopefully the orthopedic will be able to put my mind to rest when I finally get my referral, in the mean time I have had to take time off from my internship, which means not much dyeing going on at the minute!  However, I realised I did some dyeing in between weaving with fox fibre and dyeing with the tinctoria dyes and stupidly forgot to blog about them!

I have dyed with Bixa orellana aka Annatto seeds before but got a really muggy dull pinky/red colour and this time I wanted some astonishing oranges/terricotta colours.  So, I decided to give it another go and hurrah! it worked!! :)

What do you think of the results?  Hopefully my wrists will be fixed soon so I can get some more dyeing and knitting done!!