Hey guys - I tried to attach the picture but apparently it's too large, but if you click on My Photos -it's the first one there with the mint green "dress" covered in Gerber daisies. This is in regards to a cake I did for someone leaving our office, who loves Gerber daisies, and she's half Egyptian, so that's her name on the top (she wears a necklace with her name written in Arabic). Anyway, I need some help for next time I do a cake like this. My idea was to have it look like a dress with pleats, or draping, on the bottom. I wasn't happy with the way the pleats looked here - does anyone know how to get a more fuller effect, with larger, more even looking pleats? I think my MMF might have been too soft to hold the shape I was looking for - I may have to use store bought fondant next time. Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions so I can try it a different way next time. Thanks!
Hi, Have you ever seen skirts sewn out of a circle or half circle of cloth where you do not have any gatherings at the waste end and it is wide and rippling at the foot end? The Garett frill cutter makes such in small size but if you apply the technique and cut a circle or half circle and frill the lower end with a thick knitting needle you will get the wavy effect you call pleats.
I do not know if you have piped mound of icing underneath the skirt, if not that also helps keep the skirt edge wavy or pleaty like I did on a doll cake once. Sorry I do not have a picture readily available.
Ok, being an avid sew-er, let me give you this advice:
Since you have a ribbon around the middle of the cake, end the first layer of fondant at about the middle of the ribbon.
Then take a long strip of fondant and make your pleats with it, wrapping it around the cake. You can hide the seam in one of the pleats.
Roll the top (pleated) edge thinner and trim off the excess before mounting on the cake, so it's not too thick under the ribbon.
You may need to make the band about 1/4 inch wider to accommodate the idea, but your pleats will be perfect.
Theresa 
Thanks Pxxydust,
I think you need to let it hang so it will flow freely at the buttom..
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To get the tablecloth draping effect, (after laying the icing over the whole cake) I pick up one icing section with one hand and with my other hand's index finger, I support the fondant in a drape right up to the edge of the cake and then lay that drape down and do one an inch to the side of it and continue until the whole round cake is done. Basically I get the fondant to take the shape of my index finger and then remove it and lay it down. The base then automatically sits wider where it just meets the board.
Does this make sense?
I hope this helps
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