By the Dozen

I'm not sure how Anne came up with the idea (maybe it was impulse shopping at Safeway) but she suggested we dye Easter eggs. It sounded like a fun crafty idea (and I had two dozen ancient eggs languishing in my fridge) so I said sure.

While reading the kit at home we agreed that we preferred the bright colors supplied by using vinegar along with water in the dye. However, there was no vinegar to be had in my house so we put off our project until we could make another trip to the store. I dropped Anne off at the library to try to check her email (that's another story) and ran into Safeway to pick up some vinegar. Of course, I had to buy two other dye kits: tie-dye and rainbow.


The colors of the dye tablets were misleading. The pink and purple couldn't have vinegar so we had to drop the tablets in the water first, then add the acid.


Our idea was to dye a base coat first. I loved the orange, green and yellow.


This is the tie-dye kit. I had to poke cloth through the holes, press the egg between the cloths, then add dye with a dropper. I gave up after one.


For the rainbow kit you don't use the tablet dyes, instead it has little pouches of liquid dye. You put an egg in the little bag and smush it around as you add the dye. Anne was very good at this method.


Here you can see the yellow egg I did with the tie-dye kit and a pinkish egg Anne did with the rainbow kit.


Now those are some beautiful eggs! Which one is your favorite?