Hello can anyone give me some tips on how to make the little baskets in the picture. I need to make them cupcake size but cant figure out how to get them to curve and how to make the pieces so they all fit together and how to make the handle. I am thinking that you would make it in pieces and them assembly it once it is all hard and dry but not sure. Any tips or tutorage would be great.
It would seem to me you could make them sort of like making a shoe or bootie. Using gumpaste, make the base in one piece and then make the sides and hood as one piece. You would have to lay out a pattern. I can't really describe it here. but if you look at it, you can how the sides are shaped....the sides would be pretty straight and then a larger curved section in the middle for the hood part. Once you attach the top and sides to the bottom, stuff it with saran wrap until it dries hard enough to hold it's shape. Make the handle and lay it over something round...like maybe a rolling pin to dry and then attach to basket with gumpaste glue. I don't see why that wouldn't work.
I was just going to suggest the same thing - bootie template. Grannys3angels has a great one for your needs since it includes a strap that goes over the top, you could prob. adapt that strap into the top part of the basket? Just a thought, could at least be a starting point to build in paper in order to make your own basket template...?
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