I tried again to make a bigger cane of soap dough, then try to reduce it. I put it together and then let it sit for a day so all the different colors and different pieces would be the same temperature and about the same stiffness. I started to reduce it but it clearly was not going to go well, so I stopped and used what I had to make a bar. I am certainly no pro when it comes to polymer clay techniques so it's possible to key lies in my hands and not in the fact that this is soap versus clay. I feel like I'm doing things fairly properly based on the videos I've watched but for the time being, I am going to reduce each element down individually before I put them together and once the total design is together but small enough to start with, then I will try to reduce it further. Kind of bummed since reducing can take a fair amount of time so reducing each element instead of being able to reduce the whole from the start adds time to an already time-consuming process. Sniff.
