Ruffles and pearls

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Comment by Linda Wolff on March 28, 2012 at 3:01pm

Diana, there are several others on this site who have also gone to her classes. I am green with envy!! haha! It's on my list of things to do before I croak! I would love to see the old skills of piping make a come-back. There was nothing more beautiful than a decked out piped cake. Now everyone is going to fondant cakes, with lots of figures and they are made to look like an object, and piping is becoming a lost skill! I am trying to get a lot of my own ducks in a row so that I can catch one of her classes. I've got other obligations that I need to free myself up with, then hopefully........

Comment by diana nishimoto on March 28, 2012 at 2:54pm

Last summer I took a four day Lambeth Boot Camp class from Kathleen Lange.  All I can say is "WOW".  I had my butt kicked, but learned so much.  I want to retake the class because there was so much to absorb and I can't remember it all.  So excited about getting my book. 

 

I think your work looks great.  Piping is such a lost art that we should all try to keep alive!

 

Comment by Linda Wolff on March 28, 2012 at 2:50pm

Oh, thank you Diana. I too want that book so bad I can taste it. I doubt that a true Lambeth decorator/artist would say my meager attempts are even close to a true Lambeth cake. But I want so bad to learn, I keep looking at pictures and reading all I can find, and then try my hardest to come up with something close.

Comment by diana nishimoto on March 28, 2012 at 2:06pm

LOVE IT!!!  I've taken a Lambeth class but haven't had much time to practice.  I just bought the Lambeth Method of Cake Decorating book for probably too much money, but I've wanted it for a while.

Love your work!!

 

Comment by Linda Wolff on March 27, 2012 at 12:49pm

Gail, I didn't know what your post meant until I started going through the pics. Only thing I can think of is to open CWB in several windows and do it that way.

Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on March 24, 2012 at 8:16pm

OC 'S CAKES ARE NICE ! HOW DO THEY POST SO MANY IN A ROW WOW

Comment by Linda Wolff on March 23, 2012 at 9:40pm

Thank you Rima! =O)

Comment by Rima on March 23, 2012 at 9:26pm

I love this one too!

Comment by June Kowalczyk on March 23, 2012 at 6:29pm

Thanx Linda

XXOO     :o)

Comment by Linda Wolff on March 23, 2012 at 6:19pm

June, how I started, was by putting a very simple border at the very bottom using  star tip #22. Then, I used star tip #14 for the zig-zagged white all around the pink border. Measure up to about 1/3 from the bottom of the cake up the side of the cake and make a mark with a toothpick. Turn your cake to the opposite side and make the other side the same way, then mark it between the toothpicks to find the 1/4 of the cake and then mark again between the toothpicks so that you have measured out the cake into 8 areas. Using the toothpick, start at one mark and draw a line with the toothpick in a swooping motion and connect to the other toothpick mark you come to. Do this all around the cake until you have 8 swoops as your guide line. Then use tip #104 (rose tip) and keep the fat end at the top close to the cake and angle it out some at the thin side and start your ruffle by going up and down and connecting at the top and it will automatically create your ruffle. By the way, there are two rows of ruffles. The bottom one is pink, and then I put a white one on top of the pink one. Same tip, but you can use a smaller one for the white ruffle if you want. Watch this video and you will see how this is done.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYDX1ey7URE

She has several techniques that are very pretty on this video.

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