A Simple New Way to Make Polymer Clay “Baroque Beads”

Welcome to my Channel, Studio and this little tutorial on an old friend of mine - Baroque Beads. These were some of the first beads I made - you see I didn't know how to cane and applying discs, triangles, twisted ropes to solid colored bases seemed a good way for a newbie to get into polymer clay. I made the beads in the late 80s - early 90's and they are in my first book published in 1997.

I loved making these beads. At the time there was no Skinner Blend so they were solid colors on solid colors (mostly straight from the packages because I didn't know how to mix colors then).

So, here they are again. This time, we'll begin by making them as I did then with one huge change, you'll see. Then I show how to make them even easier - with cutters! Yup. ferrules - we didn't use them in the old days.

I hope you enjoy! This is a great project/tute for newbies!

Big hugs, D

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