These Easter eggs and wool were all dyed using foods and spices that I found in my kitchen.
Red Cabbage
- Cut the red cabbage into thin slices and place into a pot filled with water
- Cook the cabbage until tender and there is lots of colour in the water
- Pour the liquid into a jar
- Add the cooked egg into the jar and let it sit overnight
Red Cabbage -Dark blue:
- Add a teaspoon of vinegar into the dyebath and stir, before adding the egg
Purple:
- After dyeing the Dark Blue egg, I put some fleece into the dye jar (Tin mordant)
- Since it looked like there was lots of dye left in the jar, I also added another egg into the dye, placing it under the wool to keep the egg covered in the dye
Pickled Beets
- Pour the liquid from a jar of pickled beets into the dye jar
- Heat for 2 – 3 minutes in the microwave
- Add the hard boiled egg into the beet juice and let it sit overnight
- Remove the dyed egg from the dye bath and let it dry on a piece of paper.
- The lighter coloured egg was dyed in the second dyebath with some wool mordanted in Tin
Rosehip Tea
- Fill a clean dye jar with water.
- Add 2 Rosehip tea bags to the jar
- Heat in the microwave 2-3 minutes
- Place the hardboiled egg into the jar and let it sit overnight.
- Remove the dyed egg and place on a piece of paper to dry.
Blackcurrant Tea
- Fill a clean dye jar with water
- Add 2 Black Currant tea bags to the jar
- Heat in the microwave 2-3 minutes
- Place the hardboiled egg into the jar and let it sit overnight
- Remove the dyed egg and place on a piece of paper to dry
Turmeric
- Fill a dye jar with water
- Add 1/2 tsp. ground Turmeric and stir
- Heat the jar in the microwave 2 – 3 minutes
- Add the hard-boiled egg into the dye jar and let it sit overnight
- Remove the egg from the dye jar and place on a piece of paper to dry
Cumin
- Fill a dye jar with water
- Add 2 tsp. ground Turmeric and stir
- Heat the jar in the microwave 2 – 3 minutes
- Add the hard-boiled egg into the dye jar and let it sit overnight
- Remove the egg from the dye jar and place on a piece of paper to dry
Spinach
- Cook spinach greens and drain the liquid into a clean dye jar
- Add the hard-boiled egg into the dye jar and let it sit overnight
- Remove the egg from the dye jar and place on a piece of paper to dry
Coffee
- Pour some strong coffee into a dye jar
- Place the hard-boiled egg into the jar
- Let it sit overnight or for a few days to get a darker colour
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