ok ok ...so Im being lazy 
and not looking through all the posts.....but somewhere I saw one about making the fondant bow....it had the measurements and of how many of each....does anyone remember the thread and where I can find it.....or do you know the answer 
Thanks 
please dont make me look through all the posts...... 
I like being lazy 
there's a link from the instructions page to a forum with any questions/answers...
here it is! http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-59.html
i believe most of the articles have something like this.
I just did one (in my pics). I think it took 17 or 18 strips. They were 6" long and 1" wide. I hung them over a fat dowel rod, wrapped with wax paper (like a broomstick's width) and pinched the ends together to dry.
thanks...I saw that article...but I thought in the forum post I saw it had something about different lengths and stuff....like so many bottom at this length then the next row and so on....
kittikakes...very pretty bow...so they were all the same lengths?? what size cake was that? Im going to do a square gift cake ..I dont know what size though
That cake is a 9". They were all the same size. I cut a small circle from a cake board, probably 2" to 3" in diameter and then put a big dollop of royal icing in the center the same color of the bow and then stuck 8 strips into the bottom. I put them all in a circle first to make sure how they would fit together before putting them in the icing. If you're going for a smaller cake you could make them 5" long and even a little smaller in width.
When I do mine, I figure out how big I am doing the cake, and how much room I want to take up on top. If it is a 10 in cake and I want an 8in bow on it, then I do the bottom loops around 7-8 inchs, then lay them over a wood dowel. I have several different thicknesses that I use depending on the size of the bow. I then make some smaller loops 6-7 inches, and them some even smaller loops. I usually make some that are just enough to fit around the dowel for the top of the bow.
I also make my loops around an inch thick, but I do make some thinner loops to help fit into areas where a regular sized one won't fit, so I can emlimanate gaps.
I never count how many loops I make. I'm a firm believer in making extras, to allow for breakage.
What did you use for your medium? How thick are the strips? If it's straight fondant, it could take a couple of days to dry(depending on thickness). If it's gumpaste, it should be dry within a few days. If it's MMF, it could take up to a week. I find MMF takes forever to dry out if it doesn't have something added to it. To get the fondant to dry faster, you could add gumtex, tylose or even powdered fixodent. My bow was made out of Wilton fondant (I'm trying to get rid of it) and powdered fixodent. I needed the bow in two days, so I wanted to make sure it dried faster than usual.
Hey Twinsline: I don't think this is the thread you were talking about, but it might help. TamiAZ replied with a post about lenghts & widths, etc. & posted a picture of a really pretty bow she did:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-20340-fondant.html+bow
HTH
What is powdered fixodent?
You know the stuff people use to keep their dentures in...well, that stuff. You can find it at any drug store and at Wal-mart and K-mart and places like that. It has to be the powder though. Put 1 tsp of powdered fixodent into a wad of fondant the size of a baseball and then use it just like gumpaste. I can't always get tylose and gumtex so this works in a fix, no pun intended! A few of the cakes in my pics were made with MMF and fixodent - Tink's wings, the sun's rays, the robot's appendages. The pink bow is actually Wilton fondant with fixodent. The fondant would have eventually dried out on it's own, but I wanted to make sure it was dry within 2 days. SquirrellyCakes passed that tip on from another decorator.
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