Complete Crafts

This course will allow you to study at a time and place which suits you with no strict deadlines or timetabling to contend with. This means you can fit studying around your other commitments! You will receive your course by post, so getting your materials is easy and hassle-free. Your personal tutor is there to support you every step of the way by email, so help is only a click away!

Course Content

Cake Making QLS Level 2

Unit 1 Chemistry and Baking

• Basic chemistry of baking
• Functions of the main ingredients
• Cake chemistry
• Gluten in baking

Unit 2 Equipment

• Equipment used for baking
• Sieves
• Electric mixers
• Thermometers
• Scales and measurers
• Different types of tins
• Liners
• Cooling racks
• Icing guns and smoothers
• Spacers and levellers
• Dowling, tiers and spacers
• Piping and embellishing

Unit 3 Cake Types and Fillings

• Textures of cakes
• Types of cakes
• Multi-tiered cakes
• Sculpting cakes
• Cupcakes
• Layer cakes
• Cake fillings

Unit 4 Cake Design

• Design a cake from scratch
• Sketching
• Selecting cake types
• Equipment
• Trial and error
• Plan a cake
• Potential obstacles

Unit 5 Icing

• Fondant icing
• Royal Icing
• Butter cream
• Marzipan
• Sugar paste
• Ganache

Unit 6 Sugar Craft

• Introduction to sugar craft
• Piping
• Creating flowers and petals
• Sugar paste
• Modelling paste
• Texture
• Colour visual effects

Unit 1 Introduction to the Basic Principles of Knitting

• Yarns and knitting haberdashery
• Casting on and off
• Increasing and decreasing
• Basic stitches
• Joining pieces
• Knitting project

Unit 2 Exploring Needlecraft

• Hand sewing
• Machine
• Selecting materials
• Basting
• Hemming
• Tacking

Unit 3 Basic Patchwork and Quilting Techniques

• Selecting materials
• Templates
• Types of quilting stitches
• Project

Unit 4 Card Making, Scrapbooking and Decoupage

• Making cards
• Decorating
• Scrapbooking
• Decoupage
• Projects

Unit 5 Homemade Toiletries

• Health and safety considerations
• Equipment
• Methods
• Storage and use of completed toiletries
• Projects

Unit 6 Candle Making

• Health and safety
• Equipment
• Methods
• Project

Unit 1 Jewellery History and Design

• History of jewellery in ancient civilisations
• Develop design ideas
• Design considerations for different pieces of jewellery
• Design considerations for different materials

Unit 2 Jewellery Tools

• Threading tools
• Wire tools
• Metalwork tools

Unit 3 Beadwork

• Different types of thread
• Crimps in beadwork
• Different knotting techniques in bead and threading work
• The range of beads which can be used in beadwork

Unit 4 Working with Wire

• Defining the term ‘findings’
• Techniques used in wirework
• Function of working with chains
• Use of memory wire

Unit 5 Metalwork

• Cutting
• Filling
• Joining
• Texturing
• Shaping
• Finishing and polishing
• Correct workshop set up for metalwork
• Different types of metal and their applications that are used in jewellery
• Metal work techniques
• Finishing and polishing metalwork

Unit 6 Decoration

• Application of stone types and their use in jewellery
• Readymade settings and custom settings
• Use of clay and resin in jewellery making and decoration
• Use of found objects in jewellery making