was determined to try my hand at doing some natural dyes with vegetables. in the end, i gave up on my plans for using onion skins or artichokes. (the water from steaming artichokes is often an intense bright blue-green, but not from the particular ones i made that day). but i followed through with the cabbage.
i had forgotten how long it took to dye the eggs, but looking back at the photos, i see that it did indeed take a lot longer than the food coloring. so be warned: the eggs took a good couple of hours of soaking to get blue.
at some point, i added a bit of vinegar 