Silk tie dyed Easter eggs are so much fun to make and way less messy than buying a dying kit or using vinegar and food colouring!
First you’ll need to start with 100% silk ties. Right now we’re on skiing vacation, so rather than rid Mr. MK of a few duds laying around in his closet, I picked up a few from a thrift shop in Banff. It’s a good thing we were buying them to destroy, because the pickin’s were slim and ugly (unlike me … ahahaha).
A good looking tie doesn’t necessarily mean a good looking Easter egg, so go ahead and use whatever you can find. Generally, I’ve found brighter colours turn out the best, but the results are always a bit of a surprise and what make this so much fun.
Go ahead and open up the ties by removing the stitching up the middle. Most likely you’ll find that there is a white liner inside the tie. Set this aside to use later on.
Wrap your egg in the silk fabric and tie it up at one end. We used dental floss, mostly because we are on holiday and I didn’t bring any sort of string. Just call me McGuyver … or not!
This is where you can get creative. You can use one large piece of fabric or several small strips. We found it was easier for small hands, if the fabric was wet when it was wrapped around the egg.
In addition, through trial and error we discovered that you don’t get large white spaces on your finished Easter eggs if you wrap the egg many times over with the string.
After you’ve wrapped the egg in silk you’ll need to wrap it in a clean white cotton. Normally, I’d cut up an old pillowcase, but our holiday accommodation doesn’t come with old pillow cases, so we used the white liner that was removed from the tie earlier.
Boil the eggs for 20 minutes in water and a 1/4 cup of white vinegar.
My kids are impatient, so I have a bowl of cold water waiting for the cooked eggs. I remove them from boiling water and let them sit in the cold water for 10 minutes.
The kids love unwrapping them! Every one is different.
Enjoy :)
MK xo
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Beautiful! I so need to get around to trying this some day.
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Wow, that is fabulous. I don’t know where you find out this stuff, but I wish you’d been my mother :)
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Those are beautiful, Kim! Thanks for the tutorial. :)
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Gorgeous eggs, I am going to the Thrift store right now to look for ugly ties. A great craft to do with the grandkids tomorrow while waiting for the turkey to cook. Thanks.
E-mazing! Seeing ad I already boiled my eggs & bought the paas set, too late for this year but hoping I remember it for next year!
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Thanks you for your article.
Nice informations ;)
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Love this idea! Since we are moving we didn’t do up any eggs this year, but I’m going to have to remember this for next year.
I need to try this sometime.
I love the pebble placemat/runner.
That is so stinkin’ cool. I think I’m going to give this a try. I can’t wait to show the kids.
I love how intricate it looks. Just wondering how the design got transferred to the eggs?
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Are you stinkin kidding me? Those are GORGEOUS. I will definitely try that next year.
Wow.
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Beautiful but is that safe to eat especially for children?
Oh…how…COOL…is…that!?!? We stay over my mom’s house every year and color eggs on Good Friday. I am so going to try this, next year. It looks easy enough, maybe even I could do it…juuuuuuust maybe ;) Thanks for sharing!
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They’re just beautiful! How/where did you learn to do this??
You’re so talanted.
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How fun! Yours turned out beautiful, I wish I had of found this before Easter!
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These are gorgeous! I saw this in a magazine once and have always wanted to do this but never knew where to find cheap silk ties – not sure why the thrift store never crossed my mind. Thanks for the tutorial – you’ve inspired me to give it a try this year!
Those are so cool! I can’t wait to try this with my kids. By the way, I am a tad bit envious that you are in beautiful Banff.
These are sooooo beautiful & creative!
Will this work with egg shells that have the egg already blown out of them??
I’d prefer to do it this way so we could keep the beautiful eggs afterwards,
but not if it won’t work or the boiling will cause the shells to crack.
Will this work with egg shells that already have the egg blown out of them
or will the boiling cause them to break?
I’d prefer to blow the egg out so we can keep our beautiful creations.
Will this work with egg shells that already have the egg blown out of them,
or will the boiling cause them to break?
I’d prefer to blow the egg out so I can keep our creations longer.
I’ve seen these done before, but never as beautiful as yours. They are gorgeous.
this is brilliant! i LOVE it!!
WHAT A COOL FUN IDEA AND JUST IN TIME FOR SOMETHING FUN AND DIFFERENT TO DO WITH THE GRANDKIDS THIS EASTER! THANKS !!!!! :-)
Such a clever idea!
I just might have to try this!
Im going to try this!
This is probably a dumb question but, are the eggs edible?
Chelsea! Check it out!
Am I understanding correctly that you do this to raw eggs and then boil them in this process?
These are beautiful! What a unique way to color eggs!
Um…so does anyone know if the eggs are still edible after doing this? I’d love to do with this my kids, but they also love to eat the eggs after….
This looks awesome! I so want to try this
Those are beautiful!
wow!
So cool!
Gotta try this
I did my project today, and the blown out eggs worked equally as well as the hard boiled ones, although we did have 1 casualty. After I blew the eggs out, I baked the shells in the oven for 10 minutes at 350 to strengthen them a little.
what a neat idea!
Wow how simple and easy! Love it!
wish I had that much creativity!!!!Great idea
I love this!
I am so sorry I will miss the tie dye party this year… my personal caveat – use a glass or porcelain pot to boil the eggs!
Kim, did you ever say (or did anyone else?) if you attempted eating these or not? My husband grew up in a dye-the-eggs-and-leave-them-on-the-kitchen-table-for-decoration house, but I grew up in a eat-the-eggs house :) (and we eat a LOT of hard boiled eggs in our current house!)
Ok, I’m trying this even if my son doesn’t want to help–too cool not to.
Too much fun!!! Going to look through hubby’s closet while he is asleep tonight. Tee hee
I wanna try this!
I saw martha stewart do this a few do this a few years ago. So cool
very interesting
They are spectacular!
thanks susan!
THIS IS SOO COOL!
THANKS FOR SHAREING BROOK!
If you want to keep them for a long time and don’t want rotten eggs laying around, put a pin hole in the ends and blow the runny egg out first and have scrambles eggs, then “tie-dye” the eggs.
We made these eggs twice yesterday!! First my daughter and I made a dozen and they turned out beautiful. Then we went to a egg painting party and brought the silk tie supplies. Everyone was so impressed at how easy and beautiful the eggs turned out!! We used both an enamel pot and stainless steel pot, neither made a difference.
Thank you so much, Happy Easter!
Patty
Creating fun moments with your children such are these are a great way to build their trust and rapport towards you. It is a great way to bond and give them all your time and effort for them to feel that they are loved and they are important. It is best if both parents could do this fun activities together because a complete family would always have an impact to a child. Nonetheless, if you are a single parent, it should not hinder you to become a better parent for your child.
WOW…I know many ways of colouring eggs but this blew my mind away…so cool!!! Now I just need to explain to my husband that some of his old ties can really be “thrown” away…and try this.
Alas, it appears that you CANNOT eat these eggs. In this very well researched post (link to follow), Jacqueline Wilson talks to a dye expert and an FDA Representative about the dyes used to dye silk. Both sources indicate that some of the ingredients in those dyes are toxic.
http://www.writrams.com/2011/03/29/silk-tie-dyed-easter-eggs-safe-to-eat/
Too bad, because this was really neat to look at–but I come from a background where not eating the eggs would be considered a terrible waste of eggs.
Any ideas how to get around this?
These are lovely, but I have to wonder if they are safe to eat. If you buy the ties second hand, who knows what kind of chemicals (dry cleaning) they might contain. I would worry they would leach into the eggs.
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