Once you've done your skinner blend, you can use it to create beautifully blended canes which you can use to make either more fancy canes, or slice through to create other effects (including woodgrain)

The more colours you put in your blend, the more you'll see spiralling out from your cane. I used three stripes for mine, so they have a light centre and outside.

Start with your skinner blend sheet

Fold or roll the sheet up in the direction of the strips, so that the dark strip lines up and you get a narrow sausage with two pale ends and a pale middle (well, if you're using similar colours to me)

Now you need to roll against the strips very thinly to create a very, very long strip which you can then roll in on itself to create the cane.

I didn't have enough space to roll it all out in one go, so I flattened a bit, then rolled it up, then flattened a bit more

At this point it's very important to brush off all the icing sugar, and I really recommend very lightly brushing on some water to make the layers stick.

Once it's all rolled up, you need to keep rolling the big, fat cane until it's thin enough for your purposes.

It'll deform less if you start rolling in the middle, then out towards the edges. As you can see, the width of my sugarpaste wasn't very consistent so it pokes out a lot at the edges.

Don't worry, you can slice it off and use it for something else.

Here's the finished cane - I've taken mine down quite narrow as I wanted to plait them.

Store these in a plastic bag so they don't dry out. If they look like they're going crispy you can wrap them in some lightly damp kitchen towel to try and keep them moist.