Category: Tips&Tricks

January 21, 2022

The Baseball Cane Video

I filmed the footage for this in late 2020 and then tried to record my own speech for it but turns out… I really can’t talk well. So I’m sticking to the usual method and there’s little caption bubbles throughout.

This video is part of my effort to turn all of my written tutorials – in the posts and pages of this site – into videos, as well. The written post for this is here. In it I do a step in reverse order from the video. In the written form, I make the long horizontal stitching first and, in the video, I make the short vertical stitches first. The end result is the same thing.

Later on, after I got asked to make the initial one of these back in 2015, I got asked to make softball versions. Premo’s wasabi with a tiny smidge of green makes a pretty good softball shade in my opinion. You can see an example of this cane and beads from it as well as the softball versions in my Etsy shop here.

Have a watch:

January 14, 2022

Make Elaine’s Mum Cane

Back in the mid 2000s a few of us made similar mum canes. I shared it around a bunch back then but never wrote it up. I’m rectifying that, sort of! Here’s a video of Elaine’s Mum Cane or Elaine’s Multi Petal Solution. I have a stack of these in various colours in my shop on Etsy.

You can check the video tutorial out at:

January 8, 2022

The Snowman Scene Video

This video was a process video. It’s not a tutorial of How To Make A Snowman Cane but maybe a description of how I go from a sketch to a cane to beads and finished pieces. I used a lot of scrap clay and some questionable mixes of clay consistencies but it worked for me!

I did write a quick how-to for the snowflake I rush through in the video. It’s a simple one but it works like a charm. It’s in it’s own post. Have a look.

The video got a bit long but there’s time codes!