Hello fellow CCer's...I am having a heck of a time getting my wires to stay in my rose buds to build the rose. I have watched the tutorials by Edna and I bend the wire back and insert into it with egg white and let it dry. I have tried this for over 24 hours and everytime the wire comes out...please help....suggestions???

Thank you in advance...

Is your wire covered in that clothe stuff?

Fondant/gumpaste both shrink when dried. When I do them on toothpicks they often loosen up and I end up pulling the toothpick out, sticking it in piping gel and sticking it back in the bud. I haven't tried that with wire ones, but if you have a couple you are willing to experiment on, ya might try it.

i wish i could help you know why. I use g/p only with all my flowers. I use sugar glue after making a hook with the wire, etc. I then press a little under the cone to fit the paste to the wire. Just close up the hole. Is this what you are doing. let us know a little more. hth

I find that once I insert the hooked wire then you need to work the gumpaste down to the wire. Basically until you can no longer really see a hole, just wire. Also, I let mine dry for a couple of days usually before I work on the roses--every time I try to do it the next day I have trouble. hth

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Have you seen this post? Check out the second page where they talk about heating the wire.

Make a hook in the wire (wire wrapped with florists tape or pre covered wire- cloth or paper work best)Make a ball of gumpaste the size you need for your flower center. Dip hooked end of wire in gum glue, tap of excess, insert bottom of wire into a ball of gumpaste and pull through ball of fondant until hook is embedded. Form flower center shape around wire. Since I have been using this method I haven't had any trouble with loose wires.

Thank you everyone for your advice...I am going to give it a try this weekend

After bending the wire I always heat it over a flame before I place it in the centre. I have never had a wire fall out when doing it this way.

I was taught to make a hook and then dip into edible glue then pop that into a flame (candle) then insert this into the gum paste cone hot.

Have neve had a problem with wires moving.

heating the wire is the only way I do it. never had a decoration come off yet.

How do you keep the curly wires that look like that are exploding out of a cake to stay in without them falling out