Any 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. 

I’ve always been enthralled with millifiori beads and when I looked at them I considered it some sort of crafty magic. When I started making polymer clay jewellery I immediately jumped onto the complex cane tutorials and tried to do something similar. To say the least, my first attempt was a dismal failure. Actually, come to think of it, so was the second, third... hmmm... let’s just say a...

Combing is a simple but pretty technique to create interesting patterns for your pieces. This tutorial shows the basic steps for combing polymer clay. The result can be used for pendants and other jewellery pieces or you can wrap the clay sheet around beads.

 In this tutorial I played around with hard-in-soft inlay.  I wanted to make an interesting bead with gaps around the bull’s eye cane. I've been trying to be more disciplined with my work in the past few months, so I look for any excuse to experiment when I write tutorials. This is not a technique that you’d use for everything. If you want a smooth bead you should use soft-in-soft...