these eggs:
I always try to buy farm eggs - or you know, free range deals instead of the chicken factory kind, but I haven't been to the market much this winter, and the guy at work who used to bring them in to sell transferred. Maybe it's the fact that I haven't had a carton of these in a while that's making me crazy obsessed with them! One of my coworkers got two dozen eggs from a guy he traded some venison to and he gave me a carton because he didn't think he'd use two - so nice of him! it feels kind of pioneer-ish, except that I didn't do anything to earn them! Because the BF and I love eggs nearly as much as
Edie, we had breakfast-for-dinner two nights in a row, then finished them off in a fritata this morning! It's not just the deliciousness that has me obsessed, it's the COLOR! I mean geez - just look at that! The shades of brown/pink/tan against the blue of the carton - it's making me crazy! I took a picture because as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to knit something with those colors! So this morning I divided a skein of natural Cascade 220 into 4 balls and put them in to dye. I'm not sure how it'll work, but I used coffee for one, a bag of tea w/ a drop of red food coloring for another, 2 bags of tea for the third, and some loose black tea for the last - I'm hoping that the contact with the actual tea bits on the last one might give some speckles.
It might all not work at all, but I can always overdye. It'll be interesting at least! Oh, I added a little shot of vinegar to each, even though I think both coffee and tea might be acidic enough to not need it. Results forthcoming!
2 comments:
Those eggs are beautiful! My aunt and uncle used to give us farm fresh eggs, but they never had that kind of color.
Those eggs are gorgeous! I can totally see getting obsessed with the colors.
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