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, [...]

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 [...]

We’ve hung these star lanterns in our booth at shows for a couple of years now and I’m always asked how I made them. After the AQS Quilt Show in Lancaster, PA last week, I decided it was time that I sit down and write up the instructions. Of course, you will need Kaleidoscope Kreator [...]

I had a great trip out to Cleveland for my taping for Quilting Arts TV (QATV) Series 600. I had an uneventful flight on Wednesday and got a brand new (1.5 miles on the odometer) rental car. I’m sure some of you might think this is very cool.  I, on the other hand, was afraid [...]

Kaleidoscope Kreator has been mentioned a couple of times on other blogs in the past few days.  I thought you might like to see how other people are using KK. SewCalGal wrote an article on how to use kaleidoscope images from Kaleidoscope Kreator in Electric Quilt (quilt design software).  This is something that I’ve been [...]