Refers to the process where unbaked polymer clay patterns are placed and smoothed into another piece of unbaked clay.

Making a multiple flower cane

Multiple flower cane beadAny series of articles about complex caning would be incomplete if it did not show you how to incorporate multiple patterned logs into your cane. This article shows you how to make a cane with 5 flowers in the pattern. In this example I show how to use the slices on a bead, but you could obviously use it for whatever type of jewellery you’d like. 

 

Covered cane

Covering a cane with millifiori slicesThis tutorial forms part of the complex cane or millifiori technique series. One of the common ways to use a complex cane is by adding slices from the millifiori cane onto another cane. This tutorial shows how to do it. 

Millifiori (complex cane pendant)

Using complex canes in a pendantMaking a complex cane is hard work. This tutorial forms part of the complex cane or millifiori technique tutorials. This tutorial shows how you can incorporate slices from your complex cane to make a pretty pendant.

 

Rounded rectangle beads - soft-in-soft inlay

Rounded rectangle striped bead using soft-in-soft inlayFor one of my Christmas presents I got a book on the history of beads. I really liked one of the beads on the cover.

Soft-in-soft flower polymer clay bracelet

Green and orange flower bracelet - polymer clay Bracelets have always been my favourite type of jewellery but I realised with a shock that I rarely make them. This tutorial shows the different steps on how to make a cuff out of polymer clay. It also shows how to make the bracelet blank and shows how the soft-in-soft polymer clay technique works as used for the pattern on the outside.