What To Do When Skinner Blends Get Too Wide

Video #435: How to fix wide color blends... and then keep them at a manageable width ... More Info: http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... Polymer Clay Tutor.

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Have you ever made a Skinner Blend or Teardrop Blend that ended up getting so wide that it would no longer fit through the opening in your pasta machine?

I have a trick for making it skinnier again.

First thin it out a bit so you have a longer length of clay to work with, by rolling it through a thinner setting on your pasta machine.

Then roll your sheet up, making sure that you don't change the orientation of the sheet while rolling. Your resulting log should still look like a blend, with one color on one end, blending to another color at the other end. If you roll the wrong way, the outside layer of the log will only be one color.

Start shortening the log by pushing on the ends and bunching the cane a little at a time, until the log is much shorter in width.

Flatten out the shortened log and roll through the pasta machine at the thickest setting, so that it is now back into a sheet format.

You can then continue passing your blend through the pasta machine, but rather than just letting it get wide again, this time hold your fingers on either side of the blend as you pass it through the machine. This will control the sheet and prevent it from squeezing out sideways as it is pushed through the rollers.

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