Just spoken with the birthday girl who recieved her cake forks in the post today. Needless to say she was delighted with them! Slightly unfortunately she also happened to recieve another set of cake forks for her birthday – what are the chances of that? Of course they weren’t unique handcrafted ones.

So as you know I reduced the Paisley Cane to the size I wanted to make up a polymer clay ‘fabric’ to cover some cake fork handles for my sister in law’s birthday. I played about with the best way to cover the fork handles. I have made many decorated forks and spoons over the years but hadn’t every really experimented with how to do it best. I will share that with you another time.First I cut lots of slices from the...

So after I tried the playdough reduction method again  more or less sucessfully last night I decided to use that way to reduce the big Paisley cane (see a video of the technique developed and kindly shared by Idit Zoota  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ecS_Sa0KbM, also Zuleykha demonstrates how to use it on her blog.There are also pdf instructions available at  http://www.artbyyonat.polyclayplay.com/ but I can’t get onto the site today...

So I reduced the Paisley cane today (half way through writing the post just waiting on the pictures) and am ready to start on putting together the polymer clay ‘fabric’ to coat the cake forks with. I have talked to my husband before about my lack of skill at cutting even slices from canes and shown him a picture of some of the cane cutting tools you can buy (in America but not easily in the UK of course). He said, “I am off to...

So for the first time ever I have sat down and properly planned a polymer clay project, normally I have a rough idea and just sit down with my clay or pick a tutorial to follow. I wanted to make a set of decorated handle cake forks for my sister in law. She is married to an Indian and has her dining room decorated in an Indian theme and she has recently returned from a holiday to India so I decided to make them based on an Indian theme.I...

  My tour of the blogs this morning found another give away of a beautiful Kalediscope cane necklace from Shibori girl. You can find it here http://shiborigirl.blogspot.com/2010/03/200th-blog-post-coming-up.html