Egg coloring session 2018

Eggs + dye + Crayola crayons + imagination = fun with color and pattern.

Hand dyed Easter eggs.

This is the photo sequence to go from white eggs to colored and patterned Easter basket creations.
1. Get someone to color with you.

The helper.

2. Use crayons from the Big Box of 96 to draw designs on hard boiled eggs. Dunk eggs into the dye to achieve desired color saturation.

Hard-boiled white and brown eggs ready for coloring.

3. Set dyed eggs in the egg carton to drip dry.

Set eggs in the carton to dry.

4. Arrange colored eggs in the baskets or containers filled with paper grass. Add candies and chocolates as desired. 

Arrange colored eggs in baskets.

5. Give them away and make someone’s day! Have a Happy Easter.

Annual Easter egg antics

We had our annual Easter egg coloring adventure and had fun, as usual. This year we experimented with brown as well as white eggs. 

The annual egg dyeing event.

The tradition of the baseball egg continued.

The baseball egg.

Rubber band resists are always a hit at our house. We got more adventurous this year with multiple bands and also introduced some wavy lines.

Preparing the resist

Letting the egg drip dry before removing the rubber bands.

Resist dyed egg.

We found some metallic and Gel FX colors in the Crayola box of 96. These colors produced a richer, more prominent color on the eggs and were easier to see when mark-making.

Gel and metallic crayons worked very well.

Free-motion quilting designs are my favorites to do. You can't get enough drawing practice, I always say.

Free-motion quilting patterns on eggs.

These are the outcomes with the rubber band resists. A few of them started as brown eggs. Some incorporated crayon drawings as well as the resists. The color palette was warmer and earthy because of the brown eggs.

Resist dyed eggs.

We lost 5 eggs due to cracks... which went directly into the makings of egg salad. The rest made this pretty display.

25 colored eggs.

Here are several that are packed in a Easter basket, ready to go to mom's house.

Easter basket for mom.

Did you do any egg dying this year?

My Easter eggs have feathers

Break out the big Crayola box of 96, the Paas kit, and let's get coloring! It's time for the annual Easter egg coloring event at our house. 

Results from the 2013 Easter egg coloring event.

Having just come from an afternoon of sketching quilting patterns and free-motion quilting a lap quilt, I had my brain programmed with "feathers and fillers." Why not transport these designs over to the egg dying process? 

Free-motion fillers (front left and center), a version of Zentangles (front right)
and quilting motifs (center back).

Above are background fillers, free-motion patterns and an experiment with Zentangle motifs. Below is my "free-form feathered" egg. I must say, it's a lot easier with a pencil and sketch pad, or a sewing machine and a [flat] quilt sandwich.

Easter eggs with Crayon-colored fillers and feathers.