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Name: Kiwi cane
Item: Kiwi cane
Author: miniatures

Kiwi cane

Kiwi cane

You will need: polymer clay: white, green, dark-green, translucent, glow-in-the-dark, black clay gun blade

Mix polymer clay to get the following colours: Translucent green (TG) (translucent : green 9:2) Translucent dark-green (TDG) (translucent : dark-green 9:2) Translucent pale green (TPG) (translucent : glow in the dark : green 5:4:1)

	Roll a sausage from white clay

	Use that type of nozzle...

	...to make about 40 logs from black clay

	Apply 20 logs to the white sausage as shown

	top view

	Roll TDG clay into a sheet on your Pasta Machine* (setting #3-4) and cover sausage. *My pasta machine is Amaco make.

	Apply other 20 black logs to the top of the big sausage. This time left more space between logs then before.

	top view

	Roll TG clay into a sheet on your PM setting #1 or 2

	Cover this big sausage with the sheet again

	Roll white clay into a sheet on PM #1 Cut about 17-20 stripes (depends on how thick your sausage is)

	Make a lot of cuts with the tissue blade up to the white middle

	Insert white stripes into the cuts
	Insert white stripes into the cuts

	Roll 2 sheets from TPG clay on Pasta Machine #1 or 2 and cover the cane

	Stretch and roll carefully from the middle to the edges to reduce the cane

	Now you are ready to decorate miniature tarts and cakes