I love puffins! I also love creating geometric canes with polymer clay and I have discovered I enjoy sculpting so it will come as no surprise that patterned puffins have emerged!The first one I finished earlier this year had two different cane patterns covering its body, one darker and one lighter for its white tummy. There are also some different ‘tail feather’ patterns on the underside of the tail. The beak is a cane too. The eye...

I have been experimenting with different sculpture styles. Here is a little Delft pottery-inspired rabbit. It’s just over 6 cm tall so only small. The beauty of canes is that you can resize them so I took some of my Delft-style blue and white canes and made them smaller to fit the size of the sculpture.

I hadn’t done much in the way of sculpture with polymer clay, except some small creatures made with my scraps (including the sleeping cats I have a tutorial for here) but during the Covid pandemic, I had a couple of opportunities to try out some sculpture workshops with some amazing artists and discovered I really enjoyed it!In December 2020 the British Polymer Clay Guild hosted a zoom workshop with Karen Walker making winter hares. It...

Welcome to 2021, I hope it will be a good year for you all (or at least an improvement on the last one!2020 was a strange year and I really didn’t make anything very much from polymer clay, I just didn’t feel like it. 2021 is a new year and I hope to get back to spending lots of time experimenting, learning and creating with polymer clay – I do still love it really! I don’t do it every year but I do try to make a new...

Rainbows are a cheerful sign of hope during this strange Covid-19 pandemic. You can make your own polymer clay rainbows starting with a colourful rainbow cane. Here is my short video tutorial and the accompanying sheet which includes a circle guide.

Back in October 2019 I made a large cane using mainly blues and greens. I took slices of the cane in various sizes to make some jewellery. I finally got round to taking some photographs of the jewellery so here they are.