Dyeing Playsilks with Easter Egg Dye!

So, we had just received 3 plain, white playsilks from Paper, Scissors, Stone to dye ourselves.  I was going to try Kool-Aid dyeing when I saw this idea from { tiny twist creative }.  Dyeing play silks with Easter Egg dye!  You might remember last year I dyed some handmade cotton capes with paper Easter grass.  Erin and her daughter made a large rainbow play silk that came out beautifully.  She's provided a tutorial here.  Also Erin's inspiration for dyeing play silks came from this post on rainbow dyeing yarn at small things.  And the inspiration continues.

So, for about .29 cents a piece I bought a few egg dying kits and we tried it out.  We have a few play silks already and the colors we were missing were blue, yellow and purple.  I also really wanted a silk that would be a nice landscape color for playing with the wooden animals I made. 

We made one blue & purple.  We also added a little orange on our yellow silk.  Then for the green silk I combined green and red and a little yellow to find that perfect earthy green. 

 

So here's the blue/ purple silk.  The color came out fairly light and pastel.

And here's the yellow/orange.  

 

 

The green came out interestingly.  The colors sort of separated.  So there's a sage green with spots of darker green and splotches purple/ red.  It's not exactly what I was going for, I wish it were a little greener, but we like it. 

and the animals do too!   Until next time...