Product Description

Quilt block designs and pieced top patterns lend themselves beautifully to millefiore cane making and other techniques used in polymer clay. Well-known polymer clay artists Judith Skinner (creator of the "Skinner Blend")and Sarajane Helm bring you this new 122 page full color book filled with gorgeous pictures and clear instructions. The authors show how to create amazing quilt patterns in polymer clay! Many block patterns are shown including Amish Bars, Log Cabin Variations, Nine Patch, Drunkard's Path and more. Colorful oven-cured polymer clay is used to create jewelry, miniatures, decorative items and more. The Gallery section includes the work of many other polymer clay artisans. As an exploration of color and pattern that goes far beyond the basic how-to, this book can be enjoyed on many levels.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #422587 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 126 pages

Customer Reviews

Awesome book!
I've had this book for over a year and have created several of the complex canes detailed within. The directions are explicit, complete and illustrated and creating the canes has proven to be quite easy with the directions provided. I wouldn't recommend this book to a newbie but you also don't have to be advanced to create the canes described.

Polymer clay must have for your library
This book is fantastic. Anybody who uses polymer clay would benefit from having this book in their library. Step by step illustrations which take away the anxiety of building complex extruded canes. I could NOT live without this book - seriously!

Really usable book
I'm so glad I bought this book. I always wanted to try quilt block canes but they looked too complicated and difficult. This book explains how to build canes of traditional and non-traditioal quilt blacks in a way that is easy to understand and copy. It gives a useful technique for precisely and organizing each clay component and color, and also makes it easy to adapt patterns to your own color palate. (I really recommend this book, but one does have to have a rudimentary understanding of how caning works, otherwise the instructions appear to be two dimensional.)