Make a millefiori USB flash drive jewel

Step 6 Making a hole and cutting.

Make a circumferential cut through the polymer clay, right to the core. Try to make one continuous cut. Do one large side and without taking the knife tilt it to cut both narrow sides one after the other Turn around the workpiece and make the final cut, connecting the two side cuts.

At one end make a hole for the lace. When working with equal halves I prefer to do that in the half part in which the flash drive will be glued in, thinking it is still better to lose an empty half casing than the flash drive itself. In option B you can chose to make an extra long 'cap' with the lace and a short glued on part. This way you can risk the long 'cap' as the part kept around the neck, while the flash drive is taken out for use.

You can make the hole for the lace by drilling after baking. But doing it in the soft condition makes sure it will not run through the core, thus the lace will not run through the space neaded for the flash memory.

To make the hole, push through a toothpick, till the tip just starts showing the other side. Then pull back the toothpick an insert it in the smaller hole at the other side. This way you make a hole with both openings formed smoothly, instead of one opening stretched outwards.