Update on Onion Skin Dyeing

This past Sunday our friends Karla and Ryan came over to paint eggs for Easter and as they arrived I realized that I had not bought the cheesecloth for the onion dyeing! I thought that perhaps I could use rubber bands to secure the onion skins to the eggs, and surprisingly it worked out well! This image is a little blurry, but this is what the eggs looked like in the pot. As you see I also left the remaining onion skins in the whole mix (boil for 20 minutes).

And when they come out, remove the the rubber bands and onion skins, pat dry and rub the outside with vegetable oil to give them a shiny look.

We also did a little experiment to see what would happen if you boiled the eggs in the onion skins without wrapping them, and not surprisingly they simply took on a deep brown color, in the next image you'll see the difference where the eggs in the top row were wrapped and those in the bottom row were simply boiled in the onion skin mixture.

Thanks to Ryan for the great blue color also (must be because you're an optical engineer!)
Happy Egg decorating!