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THIS INFORMATION WAS TAKEN FROM THE DEMOS OF CAROL WEBB AND KATHY
SCOTT. CAROL USED A NEW KITCHEN AID PASTA MACHINE THAT I HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

You attach it onto the front of your mixer and it functions as a pasta machine, now you no longer need to buy a motor!!  It retails for about $99-$129.
      To make a bow, dust work surface with corn starch and roll out a log
Approximately 12 " x 4".  To texture the bow, you can lay the strip over a
Lace mold, pressing it firmly into the mold, using fingers or heel of hand.
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       They also showed placing the lace mold or other over the strip of
Fondant and rolling lightly with pin on back of the mold to impress.
        You can texturize your bow with the special rolling pins, piece of
Rug backing, bumpy plastic that you see covering florescent lights, and even royal stencils.
      Cut your bow to the size you want.   Colette peters prefers her bows
Real fat.
    For a loopy bow, an example is to cut it 5 " long by 1.5 " wide, it
Takes about 20 loops for a loopy bow, more if you desire.
         Pearl dust the bow before you form its shape.  There are different
Ways of forming the bow.  Colette made her bow with one strip and folded the two ends into the middle.  She stuffed the bow with paper towels to dry.
       Kathy Scott made this neat hanging bar to dry her bows on.  She used
A fat dowel rod   (1-1.5 ") and suspended it between two pieces of high
Styrofoam.  After cutting her bows, she just hangs them over the dowel,
Pinches the ends, and tears off the excess.
          She lets hang for 30 minutes, then sets on trays to completely
Dry.
 The more open you want the bow to be, the fatter the dowel needs to be.
         Carol Webb made her bow with two strips, looping each one over,
Moistening the center so that they stick together.  Stick a paper towel roll
Inside the bows for them to dry on for 24 hours.
         To make the bow tie ends, you can cut one long strip. Cut a diamond
Shape in the center, this forms the two tie ends. The diamond you cut out is
Used to wrap around the center of the bow loops.
     It helps to dry your bow on something similar to the cake shape, in
Which it will be placed on.  Let them dry on cake dummies, or cake pans.  .
To adhere a bow to the top edge of the cake, insert a dowel rod  (sticking
Up an inch or two, and place bow over that

Tips:  instead of brushing on pearl dust, use the airbrush, using a 190
Proof alcohol such as everclear and pearl dust.
      Loopy bows can be place on top of a buttercream cake.  Start with bow
Loops and place 4 in a circle at 12, 3,6, 9:00, next put 4 more loops in
Between the first 4.  Put a blob of icing in the center.    Add on the 2nd
Layer of bow loops, putting them in between where the first layer is sitting.
There is no certain way, just add until it looks right. Put one on top
Coming out straight up.
  The magnolia leaf cutter is big and makes a perfect shape for cutting out
Bows.