Crafting With Tea

Tea can be used to dye natural fibers. The results can be either faint and light or strong and deep, depending on how long one steeps the item and the strength of the tea.

Here is a Fortune Cookie Bag, a pattern by Josephine Woo published on Interweave Crochet 2009. The initial soak produced a light wash of color, so I dyed the bag a second time in a stronger tea concoction. Then it was shaped, laid flat, and air dried.

I used Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool and Patons Classic Wool.

Undyed 

Dyed

What a versatile little leaf.