Different swirl technique?

[Pepsi Girl]

Brain fart, can't remember the name. But it is plastic sheets that you can get at a craft store, and it's often recommended for lining circular column molds. Quilt liners? Something like that? It's a tough plastic so I think you could cut it into strips like in your picture, fold it and possible iron the folds so it maintains that shape.

Your swirls look great!

I think you are thinking of Mylar

 

[Todd_in_Minnesota]

Progress - finally

Hey All,
Just to follow up on this old thread... I finally stopped by my friendly neighborhood steel yard. After wandering around for a while I found a 1' x 2' piece of 20gauge stainless. They charged me $5 (because they felt like they had to charge me something).

Tin snips, a file, and a hammer led to two swirlers, different widths. I'm finding I only really need one to swirl a batch.

The first batch I made with stainless is a mix of 2 parts lavender & 1 part lemongrass, using cardamom and blue oxide for colors. It's new, so it's still a bit streaky; but I'm thinking this technique has promise.
(I've thrown out the aluminIum prototypes.)

Thanks all for your ideas and encouragement!
Todd

 

[MzMolly65]

I don't know if I invented it or not, but it's a technique that seems promising?

Cheers all - and thanks for all your support!
Todd

Excellent idea and lovely results, they look like flames!

 

[newbie]

I don't think you could substitute hangars or anything round for this. The flow off the swirlers would be completely different. The flatness of these is what makes this a great idea. The round things will move through the batter more or less and the flat one will pull a certain amount of the batter up, making the surrounding batter flow in to fill in the gap. Very very excellent idea!!

 

[Todd_in_Minnesota]

Thanks Newbie!
It's fun, but sort of unpredictable still.
Todd

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

Good work on finding the steel.

Be honest, how many other things did you see that you thought "oh, that's cool, I could use that for..........."?

 

[kryse13]

I am in love with your swirls. I really want to give them a try. Todd swirls (trademark).

 

[Todd_in_Minnesota]

Good work on finding the steel.

Be honest, how many other things did you see that you thought "oh, that's cool, I could use that for..........."?

Since you ask, Gent, I've also bent a strip of bamboo to swirl with.
(It turns out bending bamboo is not nearly as easy as YouTube would lead you to believe...)

And I tried to make a swirler out of cut, bent plexiglass (again - much harder to fabricate than it should be).

I think I'll stick with the stainless steel for now.

Kryse - thanks for the name!

Cheers all.
Todd

 

[PinkCupcake]

Yay! I'm glad you found something that works! I do love the way your swirls look. Completely different from a hanger swirl.

 

[renata]

Very beautiful swirls! I like blue one the most (in the first post)

 

[love4soaping]

Gorgeous soap! I try to use swirling techniques I find videos for and I still have a very hard time with it turning out good.

 

[Hazel]

Slow to the party but I think your technique is clever and creates beautiful swirls. I'm glad you were able to find some stainless steel. Thanks for sharing!

I liked kryse13's comment about "Todd swirls".