Kaleidoscopes are my favorite use of cane ends and odd bits
This cane was made from a bunch of failed canes, cane ends, random bits, and whatever was on my bench. It was about 2 inches tall and 2 inches long before I reduced it.
I'm still new to canes and clay, so I have lots of bits and "fails". The blue and yellow was supposed to be a flower 🫣. The jelly roll was perfect, but who needs two feet of jelly roll. I make stripes any chance I get bc they're just stunning. The tiki face things were supposed to be flower centers (although I want to research this tiki face incident further). The leaves were the stumpy ends from making a leaf cane.
I just squished everything down. If I didn't have enough, I found something else. If I had two stumps, they became besties. It doesn't matter if the pattern changes halfway through from using a different cane, bc you can just have a new pattern and keep it interesting.
I'm just really happy this cane came out. It can be hard having "fails", but I've been doing a good job salvaging things and using my offcut clay before it goes fully muddy.
For all my scraps past the point of no return, they get fed to Mr. Peebles.
I have a desk pet of brown clay on my work bench named Mr. Peebles. He helps me clean my pasta machine and I feed him my unrecoverable failures. (Including a cane I used to make a gift for my ex and was tired of seeing on my desk.) Then sometimes I steal part of Mr. Peebles to stuff inside of black clay or as bead filler. Mr. Peebles helps me to accept that failure isn't bad, it means I'm learning and even failures are still useful. He's very sparkly and full of mica, and will co-condition even the hardest of clay bc I run him through my pasta machine every day.
Anyways. Me and Mr. Peebles made this today.