{"id":111,"date":"2008-06-06T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-techniques-skinner-blend-plug\/111\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T21:15:54","slug":"polymer-clay-techniques-skinner-blend-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-techniques-skinner-blend-plug\/111\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymer Clay Techniques &#8211; The Skinner Blend Plug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-06\/06-skinner-blend-plug-90054-00.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Skinner Blend Plug\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Vid #54: A beginner cane with many uses, the Skinner Blend Plug is a &#8216;must learn&#8217; polymer clay technique:<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For those of you not familiar with  the polymer clay technique called the Skinner Blend, it is a sheet of<\/span><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> clay that has been blended in such a way to gradually shift from one color to another. A Skinner Blend can be used in a variety of ways. One way is to make it into a Skinner Blend Plug, which can be used to make more complicated canes such as flower canes, leaf canes and many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Skinner Blend Plug is made by rolling your Skinner Blend sheet as long and as thin as you can, with your pasta machine. This long flat &#8216;snake&#8217; of clay is then fan folded back and forth on itself to create a block of clay that shifts from one color to the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This block of clay can then be manipulated into whatever shaped cane you like&#8230; square, round, triangle, etc. Having a block of clay  that is shaded in this manner is very useful when making other types polymer clay canes. 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