We’ll be unveiling our brand-new Blossoms Template Mini-Pack at the AQS Quilt Show in Paducah this week.  Stop by our booth in the Pavilion (#4202) and be the first to see our latest fun mini-pack for Kaleidoscope Kreator 3. After a long, dreary winter I was ready to see some springtime flowers, so I decided [...]

After my last blog post, someone asked if it would be possible to use fabric rather than photo paper to make the resin pendants.  I knew it was possible to embed fabric in the cast pieces, but I wanted to embellish the fabric with stitching and make domed pieces rather than cast.  After a few [...]

While in Houston at International Quilt Festival, one of our customers turned me on to a great product called Little Windows.  It’s an easy way to turn photos into jewelry, but I immediately thought of using kaleidoscopes instead of photos. I can’t tell you how much fun I’ve been having the past few days making [...]

Every so often we get questions sent to Technical Support that take a while to figure out. We had a good one today that I thought I’d share here on the blog because there are a couple of good tips in the answer. A customer wanted to start with this photo: and end up with [...]

We’ve just returned from International Quilt Market/Festival in Houston and are finalizing everything needed to make our new Template Mini-Packs available by the end of the week via our online store. To whet your appetite for just a couple more days, I thought I’d post a project made with the Snowflakes Mini-Pack. These cards are [...]

Since we will be introducing our new template mini-packs at International Quilt Festival in Houston this week, I thought I would post a project (with instructions) that I made using the new Filigrees Mini-Pack to whet your appetite. As a reminder, the Filigrees Mini-Pack will be available for purchase via our website on November 12, [...]

I’m very excited to have two of my photos hanging in the Eye of the Quilter exhibit at International Quilt Festival this year. The theme for the exhibit this year is “Reflections” and we were asked to write a statement to accompany the photos explaining “how the image is used in your reflection as a [...]

We’re putting the finishing touches on a new line of add-on template pack products for our popular Kaleidoscope Kreator 3 software.  Our downloadable Template Mini-Packs bring fun new shapes to Kaleidoscope Kreator 3, adding new dimensions to your creativity. The first two Mini-Pack products, “Snowflakes” and “Filigrees”, will make their debut at the International Quilt Festival in Houston [...]

I recently returned from Minneapolis where Spring International Quilt Market was held this year and have returned inspired and ready to create! Quilt Market is a trade show (not open to the public) where everyone who’s anyone involved with quilting as a business attends to sell, buy, promote, network, etc. We were not exhibiting at [...]