Letter I Polymer Clay Alphabet Cane Tutorial
This is part of a series of articles on how to create letter canes with polymer clay. Click here to start with “A”, or click here for a list of all of the other alphabet canes so far. This is the letter I alphabet cane tutorial (which is the second-easiest letter to create!)
You will need:
- Approximately 30g white polymer clay (i.e. half a standard-sized block of clay)
- Approx. 8g black polymer clay (about one sixteenth of a standard block of clay)
- Pasta machine or clay roller
- Tissue blade (a.k.a. polymer clay slicer blade)
Step-by-step instructions: Letter “I” polymer clay alphabet cane
Step 0: Condition the clay (by rolling it through the pasta machine until it forms very flexible sheets.)
Step 1: Cut off around a third of the white clay, and put it aside for now to work with the larger white piece first:
Step 2: Roll the larger white clay block into a cylinder with a diameter approximately 2.5cm (1 inch) wide:
Step 3: Roll the black clay into a sheet around 2mm thick, using the pasta machine. (The setting for 2mm thick is usually the middle setting of the pasta machine):
Step 4: Cut the white cylinder in half down the middle:
Step 5: Insert one layer of the black sheet of clay between the two halves of the white cylinder. Cut off any excess black clay:
Step 6: Using the block of white clay set aside in Step 1, roll it through the pasta machine on the thinnest setting. Then wrap the letter cane with the white sheet:
Finished item:
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