Partitions - what to do with old polymer canes
Canes - long rolls of polymer clay set in patterns If you design and make polymer canes you probably have boxes of them stacked in shelves like I do. And if you sometimes look at all the cases of canes and wonder "What am I going to do with those rolls of patterned polymer clay?" then we are a lot alike! One of many boxes of canes - waiting! This week my attention span was just long enough to take a few of the canes and put them together in new ways and make some beads and buttons. The color choices were blacks, gray, white and a little rusty red wrapped in thin black casings. The canes needed a little massaging to activate the clay since they were older. unfired buttons The buttons are 1/8" slices with the pattern going through the button. Be sure and notice the color change from the unfired clay to the fired clay. I try to make a couple of sizes of each pattern. fired buttons The beads are made of thinly sliced canes app...