I was asked to do a tutorial on my Dresden Kaleidoscopes. I can give you the very basics.
I do send out free templates for this if you send me your postal address in a pm.
Here is the fabric I used for this lesson
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Trace the elements in the fabric
onto the clear plastic template
so you can see to place it on the
next repeat
Trace around the template for the blade
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Here is the template so you
can see my tracing.
Place the template on the next repeat
match the tracing to the elements on the fabric
Trace around the template
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Here you can see where the repeats are
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Okay cut out the blades and sew them together
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Here you can see 4 blades sewn together
and the design starts to show up
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You will need 10 blades if you use my templates.
I like to sew 5 together and then trim if need be to have a straight edge
then sew both halves together.
Here are a few of my dresden kaleidoscopes
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This one was roosters
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this one was cats and the
center looks like a spider to me
but it is really cat tails
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