l'm rolling in self satisfaction right now, having just scoffed a homemade Scotch egg. It's a bit time consuming but I think the effort is worth the prize. I made the sausage meat with pork mince, garlic, thyme and parsley, Mace, paprika and salt. While the man boiled eggs for 5 minutes and cooled them in a bowl of water, I rolled out portions of the sausage meat between two sheets of clingfilm. Then it was a long job of pl pealing eggs rolling them in the sausage meat, then coating them in flour, then egg and finally breadcrumbs. Bake at 200c for 25 minutes or until crispy.
Once upon a time this skirt was a length of fabric and a pair of shorts. After a little ruffling around the edges and cutting to shape it is now a beautiful maxi skirt. It has some lovely movement to it and I am in love with the contrast of hard and soft. This really was a simple project, I started with the shorts, cutting the crotch seams and shaping the lower hem before I began to pin my skirt fabric with little pleats. Make sure your skirt fabric is large enough to go around your legs twice, this way you can add the odd pleat and give it a little volume and space to move. I didn't even sew the long edges of my fabric together, instead I chose to overlap the open edges so there is a little slit but nothing too revealing. I had to double my fabric over so that it wasn't ridiculously see through.
