How to Dye Eggs and give them beautiful Relief Patterns with Herbs...
$10.00
2 Hours
Easy
Looking for a beautiful natural way to dye Easter eggs this year? It is fun and easy and the results are wonderful!
Eggs displayed in folkart boat
I love how they turned out!
First we boiled chopped up red cabbage, onion skins and chopped beets each in their own pot (covered with enough water that when you add the eggs later they will be covered). Let them boil for aboiut 20min. and then let cool a bit. Remove cabbage or whatever you have been boiling and discard keeping the colored water in the pot. Add 4TBS. vinegar to each pot. (While these pots are boiling up prep your eggs.)
herbs and strawberry tops for the relief patterns
Using interesting herbs and other things like the tops from strawberries to wrap the eggs will give beautiful patterns...
egg wrapped with dill ready to go in the dye bath
Take a pair of nylons and cut the toes out a few inches to make a pocket, then place pieces of any interesting herb or flower petal in the nylons around the egg and then tie off tightly with a twist tie.
Once they are ready, place them in your dye of choice and bring back up to a slow boil for about twenty min.
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
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Thanks Sherry C, it is fun and they are quite beautiful!
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Very groovy.
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