How Are Silly Millies Made?

Layl McDill works ten to forty hours on building a millefiori cane. Most canes are around 8 pounds, 7 inches tall and 5 inches in diameter but she has made some as large as the size of a paint can. She has been building canes since 1993 but it was after about 5 years of trial and error that she really started to get the hang of it. Since then she has created hundreds of animal, face, and organic design canes, most of which are created while at arts festivals. She creates at least one large cane a week.