2 questions

You might want to try a "bead roller", they are plastic doohickeys you
use to roll a bead shape, they come with holes that you use to guide a
pin through, since it is still in the shaped bead trough it doesn't
distort. They make a few different shape beads.

I am using canes but only abstract patterns like stripes so far, I use
them in combination with other techniques.

Ingrid

CindyB wrote:
Do most of you who make beads use canes? I've just spent a very
enjoyable morning drooling over the clay creations on justbeads and it
looks like a lot of them were made from canes. I've never made a cane
before.

My other question is about holes. How do you get a hole that goes
right through the middle, starts where you want it and ends up exactly
where it belongs and doesn't change the bead shape? Sometimes I get
lucky and other times it's a big oops!

TIA

CindyB