This weekend I will be using MMF for the first time. I just realized that the cake I'm doing has a quilted pattern on some of the MMF. I'm sure there is a tool out there (somewhere?) but what can I do to achieve this look if I do not have the tool. I'm in a location in WV where I have to drive 1 1/2 hours away to get my products. Any advice would be greatly appreicated. Thank you! Missy
I'd like to find out also...I'm planning a baby shower cake and would like the quilted look. I've read somewhere that you can use a plastic ruler to make the indentations, but I would like to find a tool or pattern that would make it neat and uniform...
I have done this a few times, i use a pie cutter tool that looks like a pizza cutter. Except it's wiggly on the edges. I did buy the impression mats, but have not used it yet. I say if you have time buy one, if not try by hand. My only problem was not so straight lines when i did it free hand.
Good Luck.
You can do the quilted look without special tools, it just takes longer. We just did this in a class with Colette Peters. You need a triangle of lightweight cardboard as a template for your diagonal marks and a scoring tool of some sort (blunt knife, tracing wheel from the fabric department, etc). Mark small marks around the top side of your cake to get your lines evenly spaced. The triangle has a 90 degree angle that forms the base - one side goes flat on the cake plate and one side goes straight up above the top of the cake. The third side is cut at the angle you want your diagonal lines to be. Mark in one direction, then turn the triangle over, keeping the flat side sown on the cake plate, and mark in the other direction. Clear as mud 
? I can't do graphics -hope you understand this. There are, of course, cutters, embossers, and impression mats that remove all of the guesswork and most of the effort...
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