Easter Eggs

This evening Sheila and I dyed Easter eggs for tomorrow. This is really the first time she actually helped to dye eggs I must confess that some years I skipped dying eggs completely when she was younger. Plastic eggs with candy substituted for the real thing. Sheila ended up with her fingers stained brown by dipping fingers into all the colors, and her shirt is an abstract work of art now, proudly displaying all the different colors.

After Easter, I will buy up steeply discounted dye kits to use for dying yarn and for next year. The pink, red, and purple dyes were unimpressive. The blue is beautiful, I tried to talk Sheila into dying more eggs blue, but she wanted more of all the colors. I do believe that the lime green and green dyes would make a really pretty sock yarn.

Next year, I might set everything up for her, but allow her to do the dipping of eggs herself. Maybe I can talk Katie into bring Emily over for a really messy, fun time.