I made a 4" pliiow cake..... quilted white fondant..... this will hold a Fabrge egg ( fake, of course! LOL ) The bride is from Russia......... anyway....... I made tassels out of fondant, and as they are drying, they are falling off.......... GRRRRR........ Would it work better if I used the grass tip, and just made them out of butter cream ? Thanks, everyone....
When I do tassles, I use the garlic press and then put them together like I want them to appear on the cake. I let them dry laying flat. Then I add them to my cake.
I just did some that way on a pillow cake I loaded to my gallery the other day if you want to look at it. I attached them with just a little swipe of vokda on the back of the fondant and stuck it right to the B/C.
Good Luck!
-Michelle
can you post a pic of the cake? maybe that would help us help you?
I have a garlic press.... I'll give that a try..... Thanks.......
I don't know how to post pictures....
Do you know that purple rectangle to the left? The eighth section under "MY ACCOUNT" says "My Photos". You go there. Then it'll say "Cake Decorating Photo Galleries" and on the subsection it'lll say three things. Click on the middle one that says "Upload picture". 
Here is one I made a few years ago.
The tassles were 50/50 paste (half fondant, half gumpaste) I made a long sausage of paste, put it into a clay gun or extruder with a disc that had holes all across the surface. squeeze out the strings of paste to twice the length you want the finished length to be for the tassel. Gather the strings together side by side, now fold the length in half, where the curved end is, pinch that together to become the top of the tassle. Straighten out and finesse the strings to drape nicely and allow to dry completely. Paint with a mixture of gold luster dust and Super Pearl luster dust, 2 parts gold to 1 part pearl, mixed with enough Everclear, vodka or lemon extract to make a mixture about the consistency of unwhipped cream and paint the tassle. be sure and get inbetween the strings so no white shows. When that side is dry, turn the tassle over and paint the other side. Attach to the cake with a dab of royal icing or melted whte chocolate.
That is a very cute pillow cake! I had wondered about making tassels myself so your intructions really helped me as well, just wanted to say thanks!!!
A garlic press might work too but I don't think you could get the length of the strings as long as you can in a clay gun. You will have fun with yours when it arrives. I used it for the bamboo cake I made too, I just didn't put any disc in the gun, made long sausages of green fondant and pushed it through the gun and cut them to the length I needed and pinched the ropes of bamboo with a pair of angled tweezers for the section marks. Easy Breezy!
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