No pics yet, I'll try and get them up sometime this week but it will be the Patrones magazine #323, it's the latest issue and it looked pretty nice although I've only had a small peak, too busy with other stuff.
The rules are simply this, leave a comment in this post and you're in, Lady Luck will pick the happy winner this next sunday (midnight) which is the 24th I think.
Good luck!
Marita
Sorry girls, no pics yet, been too busy. So I think I'll push the date forward by one week, that will give me time to put up the photos, since I have Wednesday and Thursday off.
Marita
Monday, February 18, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Avocado pasta
Now this is sooo good, you have to give it a go...it's a recipe from this site Chicling.blogspot.fi by Hanna and Alexander Gullichsen.
Here's the recipe.
1 garlic glove (we use three).
½ chili (we used a whole).
1 lime.
2 ripe avocados.
salt
freshly ground black pepper
olive oil
handful of basil leaves (here you can go experimenting with flavors and choose something else)
about 50 grams of both Pecorino and Parmesan
400-500 grams of pasta this serves for four, we used only half amount of the pasta (only two of us eating) but made the topping/sauce as the recipe says.
You will be making the topping/sauce straight to the serving bowl. Remember to be gentle when tossing after you have added the avocado so it won't go all mushy, remember to make big enough chunks when cutting it. Also keep in mind that the pasta water should be as salty as seawater. We used black pasta which gave a great contrast to the avocado and chili. ...and it will be served as soon as the pasta is al dente, so you have to synchronize everything. When the pasta is cooked you should save little less than a deciliter of the cooking water for the sauce/topping.
Collect everything you need in advance to your cooking area and start by cooking the water for the pasta and when it does slip in the the pasta and go on with rest.
Cut the garlic in fine pieces.
Remove the seeds from the chili and chop it up.
Squeeze the lime or you can use lime juice but remember not to use it too liberally.
Cut the avocado in segments and add to the bowl, toss them a bit with the chili,lime and garlic.
continue...
Chop the herbs of your choice and add them in the bowl.
Add the grated cheeses, leave some to put on top of the finished pasta.
Toss everything, adding the oil (you might want to consider leaving it off also), salt(add carefully) and the black pepper.
Add the cooking water of the pasta toss again.
Drain the pasta, add it in the bow,l toss again and it's ready to be served.
Now you can garnish the serving if you wish, with the grated cheese, black pepper and herbs.
A good Riesling is nice with it, we had a bottle of Kungfu girl.
enjoy!
Here's the recipe.
1 garlic glove (we use three).
½ chili (we used a whole).
1 lime.
2 ripe avocados.
salt
freshly ground black pepper
olive oil
handful of basil leaves (here you can go experimenting with flavors and choose something else)
about 50 grams of both Pecorino and Parmesan
400-500 grams of pasta this serves for four, we used only half amount of the pasta (only two of us eating) but made the topping/sauce as the recipe says.
You will be making the topping/sauce straight to the serving bowl. Remember to be gentle when tossing after you have added the avocado so it won't go all mushy, remember to make big enough chunks when cutting it. Also keep in mind that the pasta water should be as salty as seawater. We used black pasta which gave a great contrast to the avocado and chili. ...and it will be served as soon as the pasta is al dente, so you have to synchronize everything. When the pasta is cooked you should save little less than a deciliter of the cooking water for the sauce/topping.
Collect everything you need in advance to your cooking area and start by cooking the water for the pasta and when it does slip in the the pasta and go on with rest.
Cut the garlic in fine pieces.
Remove the seeds from the chili and chop it up.
Squeeze the lime or you can use lime juice but remember not to use it too liberally.
Cut the avocado in segments and add to the bowl, toss them a bit with the chili,lime and garlic.
continue...
Chop the herbs of your choice and add them in the bowl.
Add the grated cheeses, leave some to put on top of the finished pasta.
Toss everything, adding the oil (you might want to consider leaving it off also), salt(add carefully) and the black pepper.
Add the cooking water of the pasta toss again.
Drain the pasta, add it in the bow,l toss again and it's ready to be served.
Now you can garnish the serving if you wish, with the grated cheese, black pepper and herbs.
A good Riesling is nice with it, we had a bottle of Kungfu girl.
enjoy!
Thursday, January 24, 2013
The goddess
I cut it, I pinned it, and I basted it and it was really worth the effort, you need to pin it to put "things in their proper places" then you should baste it to keep them there while sewing otherwise you might end up with a bundle of mess on the backside of the dress' cos there are darts that overlap.
Serging the necklines and hemline is a good place to start. This was a fun pattern to put together, the pieces matched
You can see a glimpse of our little chihuahua in my daughters arms in one of the pics. Me I'm a German Shepherd dog kind of gal but this little bundle of love just stole my heart the minute I laid my eyes on her. She's the headmistress in our household, she has five cats to keep in order and believe me she's doing a good job. Ok, ok !!! I admit ,bring me an elepfant and I'd prolly find a way to keep her/him too.
The fabric was from a bin that said cotton jersey but it feels more like rayon/viscose, I used the serger to sew after basting and then connected the front and back with SM using a narrow zigzag stitch which is BTW what I prefer to use when sewing stretchy stuff like this, you get to open the SA's and it kind of gives that flowing feel to the SA's better than just sewing them together with a serger, of course there is nothing "flowy" in these SA's.
Serging the necklines and hemline is a good place to start. This was a fun pattern to put together, the pieces matched
You can see a glimpse of our little chihuahua in my daughters arms in one of the pics. Me I'm a German Shepherd dog kind of gal but this little bundle of love just stole my heart the minute I laid my eyes on her. She's the headmistress in our household, she has five cats to keep in order and believe me she's doing a good job. Ok, ok !!! I admit ,bring me an elepfant and I'd prolly find a way to keep her/him too.
The fabric was from a bin that said cotton jersey but it feels more like rayon/viscose, I used the serger to sew after basting and then connected the front and back with SM using a narrow zigzag stitch which is BTW what I prefer to use when sewing stretchy stuff like this, you get to open the SA's and it kind of gives that flowing feel to the SA's better than just sewing them together with a serger, of course there is nothing "flowy" in these SA's.
3/3...
...aaaand here it is at last, make sure to have some sticky little pieces of notepaper or masking tape or something in hand when you have cut this, I didn't LOL!!!! but soon did when I first tried to put it together without them, after that it was pretty easy and if you think that there is no way that some particular piece don't belong there, it prolly does :)
It was so much fun, just because there was a bit of a challenge there. These patterns are so well drafted, they go together with the piece they are supposed to and the fit is right on spot. I recommend them wholeheartedly to anyone.
I have suggestion that if you want to remake some of the clothes after the first try, make a new pattern from the old one ( this only applies of course if you had to do some taping together, I had to, not with all the patterns but with some and it's much easier and comfortable to have them made from one piece if possible) So without further ado...
It was so much fun, just because there was a bit of a challenge there. These patterns are so well drafted, they go together with the piece they are supposed to and the fit is right on spot. I recommend them wholeheartedly to anyone.
I have suggestion that if you want to remake some of the clothes after the first try, make a new pattern from the old one ( this only applies of course if you had to do some taping together, I had to, not with all the patterns but with some and it's much easier and comfortable to have them made from one piece if possible) So without further ado...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Two out of three...
Oh boy! I am so exhausted, I've made three clothes from Drape Drape books today. Here is the first one, made from cotton jersey, in off white and buttercup yellow stripes.
These pattern pieces are so interesting and sometimes huge too.
Here you have it straight from the sewing machine, we couldn't resist. Not finished yet.
The pouch.
......and here it is finished.
... on to the next one
I made a tiny bit of mistake with this one, the ribbon was supposed to go through once.
PS.The third one is ready but it needs to be hemmed.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
I'm on fire, this is the third dress this week
From Patrones # 284 pattern 26 size 40, which is the smallest size, which also happens to be a tad bit big for DD, but after some fiddling it came to look like this.
What's next, maybe a top from Drape Drape.....nightie night:)
Marita
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Under the presser foot at he moment...
A Patrones dress with pretty slanted darts in the skirt, material is pretty thickish ( that's not an actual word I know) wool, a light coat material. This dress sports seams everywhere and I'm planning on top stitching them all with silk buttonhole thread if it's in my stash, if not I'll just have to figure out some other thread.
The dress was made by Tany in July 2011, she made it from a snake print, can't quite recall which material it was from but it always pays to visit her site.
Listening Natacha Atlas, one of the most beautiful songs from her (among a lot of others) is Gafsa from an album called Halim, give it a go in youtube if you don't happen to have it already in your music library.
The dress was made by Tany in July 2011, she made it from a snake print, can't quite recall which material it was from but it always pays to visit her site.
Listening Natacha Atlas, one of the most beautiful songs from her (among a lot of others) is Gafsa from an album called Halim, give it a go in youtube if you don't happen to have it already in your music library.
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