Kipferl
The recipe calls for icing sugar but next time I will use granulated sugar, it looks better. The little black dots are vanilla pulp, again.
I received this book today and I'm rather disappointed in it. It's mostly purses, pouches, tissue covers...I don't want to make functional things. I think a crocheted cake tissue box cover is kitsch, but a crocheted cake is cool.
I'm reading this right now.
I bought it years ago, at Tower Records in Shibuya. I loved that book store and I still dream of it sometimes.
I didn't read it right away because in the first few pages it's hard to get really interested, there is a lot of text and it's not an easy read, not really difficult but you have to think. I remembered it the other day and have now read more than half, it's really interesting.
In progress.
The people who wrote this pattern book obviously don't know children. Unremovable clothes, shoes and hat, what is that? I'm modifying the doll so that the clothes and shoes can be removed, and the hair is not just a fringe around the hat brim. The hat and shoes are supposed to be "tacked" on the doll. I hate the word "tack". There is no rational reason for it. Maybe it's because I only see it used in contexts where I think things shouldn't be tacked.
Other words I hate are : "pick up", I never say I "picked up" a copy of a magazine, I say I bought one, no rational reason either, somehow "pick up" sounds too casual, too nonchalant ; and "whip up", it sounds nonchalant too, maybe I hate it because I never "whip up" anything, everything I make is the result of a long and laborious process.
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