1) The fun begins with choosing colors of polymer clay

2) Feeding the clay through the pasta machine for a uniform thickness

3) Conditioned sheets of clay

4) Rolling to remove air bubbles while joining two pieces of clay

5) Tightly rolling the combined pieces to form a jellyroll cane

6) Rolling the cane out to reduce it (much like kids making snakes out of play dough!)

7) View of the spiral jellyroll cane

8) Measuring (upside down for artistic types) and cutting pieces of cane using a tissue blade

9) Orange jellyroll and some black and white jellyrolls I made while you weren't looking

10) Putting the canes together to form a jellyroll daisy

11) Filling in the gaps between petals with small logs of black clay

12) Wrapping the cane in a thin sheet of yellow

13) Wrapping again with orange

14) Adding those other jellyroll pieces to surround the cane (it's so hard to leave well enough alone)

15) Reduced to the desired size, this is what the cane looks like

16) Flat beads are cut from the reduced cane and then holes are made for stringing before baking

17) Parts of canes can be saved at different stages in the process so that there are a variety of cane styles and sizes available to create beads or veneers