First two canes for patchwork bracelet

We will make a total of 4 canes. These are the first two kinds.

1. Crazy spirals.
Actually these are nothing but double jelly rolls with a kink

Use the cutter to cut portions of clay on thickest setting
There are three mixes there, three with yellow three with white, in order: red, green (with a buffer of wasabi), ultramarine, jade, wisteria, purple. Except for the Jade (Souffle) all is Premo

Make your skinner blends *there was way too much red so I added a new skinner blend with white and red, was big enough to get two strips

Turn them in length, go through pasta machine, pair them. Position each of them with the light color at the dark color of the other one.

Trim. Keep the trimmings. Important.

Stack the pairs of skinner blends

Do a diagonal cut at one end

Start rolling in from that end

Hold the sides of the spiral as you roll to stop the clay from pushing out from the middle

Do not close the jelly roll as is

Do a diagonal cut from the inside out on the end

Like this

Now close the jelly roll

This is what you got

The second blend

Third

Fourth

Now take all the trimmings you've gotten and line them up

Get them through the pasta machine

Fold once and run again through pasta machine

Now fold, stack and cut in sections

Stack the sections

Now form your fifth, crazy wonky jelly roll

Reduce the rolls

Cut 1/3 of each

Reduce the 1/3s

Set aside for when we do the bracelet

Cane no 2 - quilt hearts

Very important for this cane, use only one brand of clay, don't mix, and make sure your two colors are equally conditioned or you will have cane distortion very easily. I suggest you do this with souffle if you have

I have white, and mixing a pinch of cherry pie red with cinnamon to get a softer red,like the one mostly used in quilts and patchwork

Make a triangle log and a regular log out of the white clay

Cut the round log in three pieces, with a wedge in the middle making the other two pieces not exactly half circle

Place the two "not half circles" on top of the triangle

Start pulling the overhanging edges down on the triangle

And we got a heart!!!

Wrap the heart in the soft red

Once

Twice (that's the thinnest setting btw)

Place a small strip of clay in the depressing of the heart

Blend

Place a second strip, a little wider, in the depression

Blend

Now take a sheet of red and place it like this

After doing the same on the other side, place a second sheet like this

After pressing everything in place, trim nicely into a rectangle

Make sure you don't cut into the heart

It should look like this

Make a thin snake of white

Place pieces like this around the heart rectangle

Cover with a sheet of soft red

Should look like this (no the heart is not distorted, I've cut a slice and as the clay is hot, the heart got smudged a little)

Wrap now in a sheet of white (still on thinnest)

Then in another sheet of soft red (yep. still on thinnest)

Should look like this. Reduce until you can cut in 4 manageable length pieces

Place the 4 pieces like this. Then just reduce it

More canes tomorrow!