My Wilton course instructor taught me to divide any shape cake using the basketweave tip. Just move the tip around the top of your cake making marks on each side of the tip with a toothpick just a little bit bigger than the tip. Hope this makes sense and hope it helps!
~Amber
Amber's makes sense but that seems tedious to me. I like mine marked top to bottom and I don't know how you would do it with her technique. I would use the pattern you already have. I would start with it on the inside of the top of the heart. I would use a spatula to mark it all the way around. When you get to the other side, if it's not quite even, It shouldn't show much. You could even try taping your pattern around the pan and make all of the markings so you can see how it will meet. If you're really, really a prefectionist you could measure the circumference of your pan and divide it out.
Hi, My instructor told me to get a piece of wax paper(long enough to fit around the cake but you only have to make it 2 inches high) ...cut it to fit around the cake perfectly....(all you have to is measure it and cut).
Then take it off and fold it in half long ways (make sure you folds are even) and keep folding it untill you get your desired width.
I hope that helps and you can understand... it is so easy and works perfectly EVERY single time.
I even use it for the top of my cakes too !!!!!
that would definitly throw off the mesurements.... i just do it around the cake itself and make little tiny marks, which will get covered anyway.
I was so happy that she showed me this way, IIII can't even mess it up because you measure it exactly. LOL
I even looked around for other ways..... and tried them too, but this was the easiest!!!!
I hope i explained it good enough.
I was told that you can do it for anything that you need to mark including basketweave... just to make sure you get everything even and straight.
Cause I know when I decorate I sort of zone sometimes. then I look at it and I 'm like...crap its uneven.
So this has been working for me. 
kory, I've never measured or marked anything on my basketweave cakes either?? have you guys tried it freehand? it's really quite easy despite how it looks...you should try it. Plus I'm sure it's much less time consuming. Good luck!
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