…the day in question being my mum’s birthday. She’d watched me produce cloth after cloth, and so a gift for her birthday had to be a personalised bundle of her own – one traditional style (plain white with coloured edging), a handbag pattern (my mum loves bags) and a cookie jar (she makes a mean bread pudding). Given with the hilarious novel ‘What Would Mary Berry Do?’ (by Claire Sandy), they made the perfect present.