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Annette1990
03-16-2008, 01:34 AM
A client I work for gave me this idea last year. She dyed some eggs with onion skins and they turned out gorgeous. I got these step by step instructions/picture online to share with all of you. You can also use red onion skins too.

Materials Needed
Here is what you need to make these kind of Easter eggs:

- eggs
- onion skins (pieces as large as possible)
- 20 cm (8 inch) squares of cloth
- rubber bands
- a pot of boiling water
- some vegetable oil
Wet EverythingSoak your onion skins in a big bowl of water. Be careful with your onion skins. When they are dry, they are pretty fragile and you want to keep them as large as possible.

Just dip the squares of cloth in the water, then wring them out so they are damp. Also dip the eggs in the water; it helps the onion skins cling to them better.


Wrap The Eggs With Onion Skins
Wrap onion skins around each egg. If you are lucky, you'll have skins from the top or the bottom of an onion. These naturally conform to the shape of the egg. If not, just make sure you cover the entire surface of each egg with pieces of onion skin. The water should help the skins cling to the eggs.
Wrap In ClothPlace an onion skin wrapped egg in the middle of one of your squares of cloth. Wrap the cloth snugly around the egg so the onion skin presses tightly against it. Securely tie off the top of the cloth with a rubber band.
Hard BoilCarefully add each bundled-up egg to a pot of boiling water. Boil them for seven minutes or so, until they are hard boiled. If you happen to crack one of the eggs when you are putting them in, add some salt to the water; that'll supposedly keep the whites from leaking out of the crack.
Rinse In Cold WaterOnce your eggs have boiled long enough, carefully pour off the boiling water and run some cold water into the pot to cool the eggs down.
Unwrap The EggsCarefully remove the rubber bands and take the eggs out of the cloths. Peel off the onion skins (you can toss the used onion skins into your compost). Voila The shells of the eggs will now be covered with beautiful patterns transferred from the onion skins in shades of brown, yellow, and green.
Give The Eggs Some Shine
Wipe the eggs dry. Put a little vegetable oil (canola oil) on a cloth or paper towel and rub onto the eggs. The oil gives the eggs a nice shine and seals their pores which should help them fresh longer.





http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j85/annette59011/egg1.jpg

elfworks
03-16-2008, 06:52 AM
wow. that is pretty cool!

thanks, annette!

xo

dvdelf
03-16-2008, 07:22 AM
are they all the same color?

Annette1990
03-16-2008, 09:19 AM
are they all the same color?
Some will be lighter..some darker. I haven't tried the red onion skins before but I bet they are just as pretty. I know the ones my friend did were not as dark as the picture I put up on here...

Annette1990
03-16-2008, 09:24 AM
wow. that is pretty cool!

thanks, annette!

xo
You are very welcome Elfworks =)

Annette1990
03-16-2008, 07:42 PM
Here is a website I just came across with some really neat egg coloring/decorating ideas too...

http://www.culinarymusings.com/category/easter-egg-decorating/

Annette1990
03-18-2008, 09:32 PM
Anyone else dying eggs? I plan to do mine with my daughter on Friday.

auntieclaus
03-19-2008, 10:48 PM
My daughter in-law to be and my nieces will be here on Good Friday to dye our eggs. I boiled 3 doz tonight for coloring and another 2 doz that I turned into red beets and eggs for Easter dinner (one thing checked off my to-do list - they'll be purple thru to the center by Sunday).

Annette1990
03-19-2008, 10:56 PM
My daughter in-law to be and my nieces will be here on Good Friday to dye our eggs. I boiled 3 doz tonight for coloring and another 2 doz that I turned into red beets and eggs for Easter dinner (one thing checked off my to-do list - they'll be purple thru to the center by Sunday).
Wow thats alot of eggs...I plan to do about 2 dozen myself. I plan to make pickeled eggs and also egg salad sandwiches with them. I told my daughter who is 6 yrs old we will be dying 2 dozen eggs. She said how much is 2 dozen..I said 24 eggs. She says well I wanted to do 25 *L* So I guess we will be doing 25.

Annette1990
03-20-2008, 12:35 PM
I just boiled up 25 eggs for daughter and I to dye later today. Should be a fun time. We enjoy doing this together every year.

mammaduke
03-20-2008, 02:51 PM
My 2 girls, there B/F's, my youngest sister,D/H & I will be doing our eggs Friday night. We will have 4 dozen eggs done , so each of them will go home with a dozen.
We do this every year, so it's alot of fun.

auntieclaus
03-20-2008, 08:30 PM
I adore the holidays and all of the traditions for each and everyone.

Annette1990
03-21-2008, 04:30 PM
Christmas and Halloween are mainly my favorites.

auntieclaus
03-22-2008, 09:27 PM
I love to decorate for fall more than Halloween in particular and now that our Sons are grown, there's really not much prep for Halloween, other than buying the candy.

liltattoo
06-18-2008, 10:07 PM
That looks really pretty and fairly painless. I'll have to add that to my Easter book to try next year!

Mumof2
07-26-2008, 11:30 PM
Very nice idea.

Annette1990
04-08-2009, 10:30 PM
Thought I would bump this thread up for all our new members. This year daughter and I will be coloring about 2 dozen eggs...I am looking forward to it!!

MerryCarey
04-09-2009, 10:11 AM
A client I work for gave me this idea last year. She dyed some eggs with onion skins and they turned out gorgeous. ]

It's so interesting to learn how this was done! When I was little, in my grandmother's china cabinet was a baby mug with a purplish egg in it. She told me my grandfather dyed the egg with onion skins when he was a boy, blew out the insides, and kept it in his baby mug. Now I know how it's done!

Annette1990
04-11-2009, 02:47 PM
It's so interesting to learn how this was done! When I was little, in my grandmother's china cabinet was a baby mug with a purplish egg in it. She told me my grandfather dyed the egg with onion skins when he was a boy, blew out the insides, and kept it in his baby mug. Now I know how it's done!
How neat. Yes I have heard that the eggs can also be blown out. I bet it was really pretty with red onion skins. Will have to try it sometime! =)