Steps: Conditioning the clay
1. Condition packages of transparent pink and transparent purple Fimo Soft polymer clay.
- To condition the clay by hand, divide the package into four pieces, knead each piece in hands and mix the pieces together.
- To condition the clay with a pasta machine, slice the block in half, compress each half to a thickness of 1/4-inch with an acrylic rod. Roll the clay through the thickest setting of the pasta machine. Reset the machine to a thinner setting and roll the clay through. Reset the machine again to a medium-thin setting and roll the clay through once more. Finish by folding and rolling until the sheet is soft and pliable.
2. Roll each color into a square sheet that measures 1/8 inch thick.
Skinner Blend sheet
3. To create a Skinner Blend sheet, cut the transparent pink sheet and the transparent purple sheet to form right triangles of the same size.
4. Place the slanted edges of the triangles together offset so that about one inch of each triangle's diagonal edge remains untouched (figure A). Cut off untouched ends so that the two triangles together create a rectangle (figure B ).
5. Roll the combined clay through the pasta machine at the thickest setting, making certain that both colors physically touch the rollers.
6. Fold the sheet, same color edge on same color edge. Place the clay on the rollers and roll through. Repeat until the sheet is smoothly graded and there are no streaks (figure C). This will render a Skinner Blend sheet.
Flower canes
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