Friday Egg: One of my all-time favorites

Friday Egg today is one of my favorite designs. It is completely based on a chiyogami or yuzen Japanese printed paper pattern, so I take no credit for the lovely abstract wagon wheel design.  I dyed a goose egg Gold, did the first layer of waxing and then washed the egg back down to white and waxed those areas that are white.  After that I dyed and re-dyed the egg, layering up shades of gray and black while waxing between each different dye bath.

It has been a busy month for traveling, so no time for making new eggs these past couple of weeks.  I hope to have a beautiful new egg for you by next Friday.  Nose to the grindstone again next week: Christmas is approaching fast and I have to get busy making new and fabulous eggs to sell!

Happy Friday!

Friday Egg

Happy Friday!  Here's a sweet little brown chicken egg, transformed into a strawberry garden.  I waxed the basic lines on a regular brown egg, as you can see then etched the eggshell down to white with vinegar (the vinegar eats through eggshell).  I filled in the flowers with wax, taking advantage of the natural white color of the egg.  I dyed the egg light green and waxed, then a darker green for the larger leaves, next dark red for the strawberry seeds (which you can't really see so that was kind of a waste of time!) At this point I washed all the color off because my next color is Scarlet, which is lighter than Dark Red and following the normal progression of light to dark, this would not work.  I have experimented with the color progressions a bit and will have to do a post sometime about the bizarre outcomes (red over dark green produces beige!).  After Scarlet, I realized that I needed a little pop of bright color, so I washed it again and dyed it Sunflower yellow for the little dots.  Final dunk in black and we are all done!

I really like it a lot!  Will have to do more with fruits and vegetables.  They are somehow more "friendly" than flowers, if that makes sense.

Have a great weekend!