Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs

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

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