Creative Doughcraft3

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CHAPTER 1 • TOOLS AND MATERIALS

Basic equipment

It is worth gotting together a basie kit of equipment. These are things you will need for most dough projects, so they are not mentioned in the equipment list at the beginning of each project.

Mixing bowl, wooden spoon and fork, to mix the dough Large and smali rolling pins, for rolling out dough Smali sharp knife, for cutting the dough into pieces Non-stick baking tray

A rangę of smali paintbrushes, for smoothing dough, and appiying glue, varnish and paint Ruler

Useful tools and equipment

•    Drinking straws, for making holes

•    Garlic press, for making long strands of dough, ideał for grass or hair

•    Florist's wire, for making stems for flowers and leaves

•    Cocktail sticks. for making holes in dough, positioning smali parts, and supporting joined pieces of dough

•    Modelling tools, for making flowers and providing undulating edges

•    Smali scissors, for cutting the edges of dough, i.e. fringes and smali shapes

•    Tweezers, for positioning smali pieces of dough, i.e. pushing stamens into the centre of flowers

•    Strong hairpins, to make hooks

•    Wire cutters, for cutting and bending wire

•    Strong wire, for making hanging loops

•    Beads, for the eyes of figures and adding decoration to mobiles

Pastry or cookie cutters

These are available from most department Stores, supermarkets and hardware Stores in a variety of shapes - round, square, fluted, hearts, Christmas decorations, nurnbers, letters, animals, fruit, flower shapes and leaves.

Special cutters and modelling tools are also available from sugareraft shops who supply many varieties of flower and leaf cutters and moulds to make morę complex shapes like birds and butterflies.