Dont give up! The layering will get easier! I did a big half round mold in layers and I could cut one and it would stick fine the next one would break apart. Take your broken parts chop them up and use as embeds! Or remelt them and use them to practice the timing on the layers, that way you dont go thru all your soap! The Wiltons not only bleed in M&P they fade too... ask me how I know that!