Toba's Freehand Embroidery

Decorating By mjs4492 Updated 14 Jan 2007 , 3:15pm by mjs4492

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mjs4492 Posted 12 Jan 2007 , 11:49pm
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Just received The Well-Decorated Cake by Toba G. Love it!!!

Just wondering if anyone has tried the freehand embroidery that she shows but using buttercream and a tip #1?

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reenie Posted 14 Jan 2007 , 5:43am
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I have a cake in my photos (the purple and cream tiered one) that I did free hand with BC ans the #2 tip. No problem at all with the technique except it's time consuming. Is that the one you're talking about?

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tmdoxie Posted 14 Jan 2007 , 11:40am
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I have to say that tip 1 is the devil. I like 2 and 3 a whole lot more.

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mjs4492 Posted 14 Jan 2007 , 2:39pm
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reenie: beautiful job!! I've used tips 2 & 3 for this but in the book it showed using royal icing with tip #0 on a fondant cake to get a super fine almost painted on look for free handing.
I ordered tip 0 yesterday and am going to take a shot at this.

tmdoxie: hello fellow Alabamian!

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bethola Posted 14 Jan 2007 , 3:00pm
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Originally Posted by tmdoxie

I have to say that tip 1 is the devil. I like 2 and 3 a whole lot more.




I agree! To be perfectly honest I'm not real crazy about tip 2! LOLL

mjs4492: Tip 0? How can you even make icing thin enough? Will water go through it? LOLL Now, that would make some seriously delicate embroidery! Post a Pic of some of your work with it! I bet it will be beautiful!

Beth in KY

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mjs4492 Posted 14 Jan 2007 , 3:15pm
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I didn't even know there was a tip "0".... And actually, there's a tip "00"! A red flag went up when I read something to the affect of the challenge will be to get the 'right consistency' of icing....
I'm going to attempt it though. If you get a chance, check out Toba's book! and see what I'm talking about. It really is a pretty detail.

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