Easter Eggs

If you're a long-time reader you already know about my favorite Easter tradition- dying eggs with old silk ties!  I had big plans this year to add some more cool egg-dying techniques to our site, but both things I tried this week failed miserably!  So maybe next year.  I did dye some eggs this week with scraps I had from the same ties I used last year.  There's plenty in one tie to do  few eggs so if you tried them last year, hopefully you saved your scraps!  Another thing I've been meaning to do is to quickly sew together smaller pieces of silk that aren't big enough to cover an egg anymore.  I think it might be a cool patchwork affect.  The ties below are all from the thrift store and cost mere pennies!

First of all, if you have no idea what i'm talking about, click on the link below:

Tutorial: Silk Dyed Easter Eggs or "Tie-Dyed" eggs!

This time around I took a cue from some of you readers who posted pics of your eggs to our Facebook page.  I noticed some of you were wrapping your eggs horizontally instead of vertically.  I thought this was a great idea if you are going to display them laying down so I tried it.   You'll notice in this post I display my eggs in egg cups so I always wrap mine top to bottom, tying the eggs at the narrow end.  In the picture below, notice the egg is lying horizontally instead.

I try to pick a good spot in the fabric if there's something specific I want to transfer, like the flowers below.

I love seeing them all wrapped up!

Results were good.  I liked how one side of the egg gives a large surface area for the design to transfer.  I also still like the look when they're tied top to bottom, so you can do it either way!

Each year without fail I have one "favorite" egg.  Last year it was the floral egg in the very first picture in this post.  This year it's this purple paisley beauty!

One of the most common questions in the comments for the tutorial is if it works with blown-eggs.  I've never done it, but I would love to since it's hard to throw out these pretty things!  The problem I imagined is keeping them submerged since blown eggs would float.  Thanks to a commenter who said the following:

I ran into the floating blown egg problem when I tried my first test batch today. I placed a metal colander on top to hold them down they turned out great, you'll just have to blow the water out once they're cooled and unwrapped. The eggs turned out so nice, I'm really excited to make them with my family this weekend.

So there you have it!  Great tip! 

NOW- What I'd love this year is if you'd share your eggs with us!  You know, the tie-dyed Easter variety :)  Snap a picture when you're done and share your pretties with everyone by uploading the pic to our Facebook Fan Photo Section- we'd love to see!

Once again, here is the link to the full tutorial with printable directions on Silk-Dyed Eggs.  Have fun!