{"id":20341,"date":"2016-05-02T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=20341"},"modified":"2016-07-21T16:39:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T23:39:26","slug":"perler-bead-patterns-polymer-clay-canes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/perler-bead-patterns-polymer-clay-canes\/20341\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Perler Bead Patterns to Make Polymer Clay Canes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Using<\/a>Video #732:<\/span> Taking a book about Perler or Hama Bead Patterns <\/span><\/strong>(“Bead It, Iron It, Love It!”)…<\/em><\/span> in a new direction with polymer clay.<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n

In today’s video I’m going to show how you can use Perler Bead patterns (fusible beads), to create cool polymer clay canes.<\/span><\/p>\n

A little while ago, a publishing company (Barron’s) sent me a small stack of crafting books to review. In the pile was a book called Bead It, Iron It, Love It!<\/em> by Kaisa Holsting. When flipping through the pages, I was instantly inspired to use the patterns in the book for making pixilated polymer clay canes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book was designed for making plastic ornaments, charms, jewelry and other craft projects, using fusible beads such as Perler Beads, Hama Beads and Nabbi Photo Pearls. But because of the grid patterns they can also be used for making pixel style polymer clay canes.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the video I go further into what a Perler Bead is and how they are put together and fused using a domestic iron.<\/span><\/p>\n

This book is filled with 300 super cute pixel patterns that you can recreate. The colors and numbers that you need for each color (not including the background color) are included with each pattern. This makes it super easy to figure out how many clay piece of each color you will need to make your polymer canes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Re-creating the Perler Bead patterns in polymer clay, requires the use of an extruder and an extruder disk in a size that makes sense for the pattern. This is all explained in the video.<\/span><\/p>\n

For my Emoji Cane I used a Lucy Clay Extruder with the three-small-squares disk from the Lucy Clay #2 Extruder Disk Set. This disk can be in the Lucy Clay Extruder, the Walnut Hollow Extruder and the Makins Professional Extruder. So… you could buy just the #2 Disk Set, even if you don’t have a Lucy Clay Extruder.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can also use small round spaghetti extruder disks, hexagon disks, and square disks, depending on the style and size of pattern and cane you want to make.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to create this styles of cane, I would recommend you purchase (if you haven’t got it already) my Christmas Sweater Cane Tutorial. It will provide you with all the tips and tricks that will ensure your success with making\u00a0 Pixel Canes… especially if you want to make larger patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if you want to purchase the Bead It, Iron It, Love It book, I’ve provided an Amazon link below the video..<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n