Make a millefiori USB flash drive jewel

Step 4 Preparing the millefiori "cane"

You can find a lot of tutorials on how you can reduce patterns in polymer clay to canes, which are cut in slices to form decorative beads and surfaces. I learned it from the following two videos (do not be deterded by the complicated patterns, start with simpler ones):
lesson 3 which I recommend to check out first
lesson 2

Choose your colours and pattern. The reducing process requires a circular outer shape. I mostly use three colours in a simple concentric configuration, somewhat out of center. The middle colour is repeated as a forth outer layer. It is good to know this colour becomes the dominant in the final result. Keep it simple as the patterns do get deformed more ore less.