I don't make fresh pasta (I'm a terrible cook, so boiling the stuff I get at the store is enough challenge for me!). But years ago I had friends who had a pasta machine and they made pasta often. Once for a Halloween dinner party they made really thin spaghetti with squid ink to make it black.

If I was going to attempt to make pasta, I would probably start with something recommended by Alton Brown.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/a...ipe/index.html