Tutorial: How to Make Perfectly White Eggs

Happy-April-Fool's-Day!

Ahem, updated note: This post was written on April 1st.

Although it’s a day after Easter, today I’ll show you how to achieve perfectly white eggs. Of course, your eggs may not look as good as mine, but you can still give it a try.

First, gather eggs from your chickens, boil and cool them (not the chickens, just the eggs). Then wrap one egg in aluminum foil. Use firm pressure as you wrap, sealing any cracks with duct tape, which can be painted in a later step.

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Next, fill a measuring cup with gin, toss in the foil-covered egg and let it soak for several hours.

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Finally, remove the egg from the gin, peel off the aluminum foil, and drain the measuring cup. The egg-infused gin makes a great martini, perfect for Monday mornings! To make the egg shine, polish it with a homemade chamois cloth moistened with rabbit saliva. If you’d like to achieve various shades of white, such as parchment, snow, or cotton, add dryer lint accordingly. Paint the egg white if needed.

Keep eggs away from pets and children. 

Winner of Handmade Hostess

The winner of the Handmade Hostess book is #45, Evanthia! Congratulations. If you’re interested in the book, you can head over to amazon to take a closer look. Happy party-planning!

Etsy Finds Friday

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Nani Iro fabric, 24″ x 41″ panel, $11 from Miss Matatabi.

Pink Check Deer Blouse, $34 from Tree Fall Design.

Geometric Hand Carved Rubber Stamp, set of 5 for $10 from Talk to the Sun.

Mom and Baby Slipper Set, $55 from Molipop.

Liberty of London Tresco fabric, $36 per yard from Alice Caroline Supply.

Vintage Beaded Clutch, £15.00 GBP from Goodnight Prudence.

Screenprinted Panda Plush, $18.80 from Jane Foster.

Fabric Bucket, $30 from Jenny Bartoy.

Custom Tabby Cat Kid’s Messenger Bag, $35 from Bikbik and Roro.

 

Ladybug Tunic

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Made this little tunic for my younger daughter using the ladybug print from my Stamped fabric collection and the Roller Skate Dress & Tunic pattern from Oliver + S. This sewed up very quickly! Next I plan to make the dress version with the contrasting v-neck facing.

My older daughter would never wear anything like this, and my younger is more into sequined clothes these days, so I thought if I tried the tunic for her to wear with skinny pants, she might go for it. But her favorite store is an unbearably pink sparkly store in the mall. I really try to allow my kids to have their own sense of style, within reason. But wow, it’s a challenge.

Kaleidoscope Quilt

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The kaleidoscope quilt I’ve been working on for the past several months was finally finished in time for last night’s school auction. Each of the kids at the school (almost 400) dyed a square of fabric, which I cut up to make this quilt, paper-piecing each block. You can read about the dyeing process here. Of course it didn’t sell for as much as I’d hoped at the auction, but I’ve learned not to take that personally. Just wish that all my time could have resulted in more money for the school and I will definitely not break it down to figure out my hourly rate, because that would be too disheartening.

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Here are my Instagram photos of the process, which I thought I’d share in case you don’t follow me over there. These days I really enjoy taking photos of the process and I’m trying to take a step back and enjoy the work more, rather than focusing on the end result. You can see that I sewed the blocks together with the paper backing still attached, then wanted to speed up the process of removing them so eventually the quilt top landed in the bathtub. They do make a dissolvable paper for foundation piecing, which I will definitely try next time on a smaller project. My walking foot was skipping stitches (tried everything including tension, replacing needles, cleaning machine, etc.), so I eventually had to get a new walking foot and an adapter so it would fit my older Babylock Ellageo machine.

If you’re interested in making this quilt using the foundation piecing method, I posted the templates that I created here.

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