With wearable art, you are the gallery for your own work. Mary Lyon, the host of DIY Crafts, explains how to make a jellyroll pin for your wearable gallery from two shades of polymer clay. Materials:
Polymer clay, three contrasting shades
Pasta machine or rolling pin (Note: After a pasta machine has been used to condition clay, it cannot be used in food preparation.)
Surgical blade
Pin back
Glue gun and hot glue - Condition the clay by working it with your fingers or rolling it through a pasta machine.
- Roll a 1/8" sheet of two colors of clay by running them through the pasta machine or using a rolling pin. Trim the edges of the clay so that each sheet is the same size.
- Stack one sheet on top of the other, and make a diagonal cut on one of the short edges of both pieces of clay so the top sheet is slightly smaller than the bottom sheet. Angle the blade 45 degrees toward you (figure A).
- Starting at the cut end, roll the two sheets together, creating a cane with a spiral design. Cut round slices of the cane with the surgical blade (figure B).
- Condition the third color of clay as described in step 1, and roll out a 1/8" sheet. Cut the sheet into rectangles the desired size of your pins.
- Place the slices of clay cane flat on top of the rectangle in a pleasing design. Trim the rectangle around the design, if desired (figure C).
- Bake in a 265-degree oven for 20 minutes. When cool, hot-glue a pin back to the back of the pin.
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