Mothers Day is a big deal in our house. My mum lives with us and with two kids 15 years apart I am spreading out this mother thing for as long as I can! We are very project oriented around here as regular readers will know... 
So my mum got two handmade gifts this year. A simple lace cotton knit scarf to go with all her lovely cardigans. Maggie B is a big walker so it's a good idea to have something to ward off the autumn chill...
I also turned my hand to a bit of embroidery. I stretched the reverse side of a floral fabric, added some stitching and painted a little yellow warbler in the corner...
It turned out ok. I had trouble picking appropriate stitches in parts and there was alot of undoing and tut tutting in the wee hours of the morning... 
The intern is encouraging me to enter Masterchef next year and we have a theory that without beautiful handmade pasta I won't have a hope in hell. So to inspire me I got quite the cooks treat...
Results of my first attempt at crab ravioli, squid ink spagettini, and pumpkin tagliatelle next week...
Results of my first attempt at crab ravioli, squid ink spagettini, and pumpkin tagliatelle next week...
5 comments:
very lucky Maggie!
and when do we all get invites to the pasta-thon?!
(oh -the word verification is 'gluconce'! do you think that is an ingredient used in sweet pasta?! or perhaps the name of a strange and arcane technique or some thing gordon ramsay would scream at an apprentice- 'you're a right fucken gluconce!')
oh!
and remember to use pasta or bakers flour!
one egg per 100gm (sometimes with an exta egg/egg yolk depending on the absorption of the flour)
homemade pasta= yum
and the word verification this time was 'accrawl'.... just what you Thom is on his way to doing I'm sure!
I am deeply envious of your pasta maker.
the embroidered picture is so beautiful, really a true beloved object , lovely blog !
I came via kindra , hello from Ireland !
Thanks Jane! I plan to do more of these little embroideries in the future -R
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