This one's my arm...
Posted by Giselle on January 29, 2000 at 22:17:13:
In Reply to: Pointing in the right direction posted by Giselle on January 29, 2000 at 22:02:37:
This design was inspired by the pic in November's National Geographic.
This is the first time I used Catherine's carrot bag... I LOVED IT!!!!
Thank the lord I cut the tip right the first time (at an angle with
the seam as the very tip). I didn't have any clogs, and the paste came
out as a very thin *ribbon*. The ribbon gave me a choice as how to
lay it on the skin. I got extra fine lines by keeping the seam up and
the ribbon would lay on it's side on the skin. Then to fill in thicker
areas all I had to do was lay the ribbon flat... I was never able to
get such thin lines before because the bottle or cone tip would clog
or be too thick. Any other time that I've cut a tip, it was
perpendicular to the bag and the paste came out as a cylinder. Now I
know better. With that one seam on the carrot bag, it held the shape
of the angle to a point which helped make the fine lines...
I am now a bona-fide cone user. No more messing with those bottles. If
the bottle tips came angled, then maybe, but until then the bottles I
have are going to hold ketchup...
Thanks Catherine! If I run out of carrot bags, you'll be hearing from
me soon after! *smile*