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Living in London without corn tortillas is hard! Most of my diet consisted of corn tortillas and I didn’t even know it. Now my diet consists of pasta, pizza, fried chicken and the occasional fish. Oh man, that’s why I was thrilled to get a package from back home in El Paso, TX! Did I mention I also miss pozole? Where do I find hominy around here!!

The package contained: 8 bags of dried chile de arbol (for super hot salsa), 2 large packs of Mission corn tortillas (!!!) and about a dozen rolls of pink, black and white Omega 100% nylon thread, which Mom bought in Mexico, for crochet (abuelitas must have used this thread back in the day).

Some of Mom’s hand crochet tablecloths…

The chile will last me a while, the corn tortillas have all been eaten (even the broken ones I used to mindlessly discard in the US), but I didn’t really have something in mind for the thread until recently. That is something I will blog about later, though.

All this thinking about what to do with this thread made me think of the amazing tablecloths my Mom crochets with it. They are beautiful pieces of art! I’m so blown away by them and it seems like she finishes them in no time because she’s always working on something new. I have no idea how she does this. She invents most of her patterns and she can replicate pieces just by looking at them…just by looking at magazines written in English, which she can’t understand! Mom is so good; I think crochet is one of her favorite things to do, maybe besides sewing.

These photos were taken in 2002 so, as you can imagine, there are plenty more now!

Pineapples!

Work in progress