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Old 08-31-2014, 07:06 PM
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Rhonda
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Default Rhonda's Dresden Kaleidoscope Tutorial






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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Attached Thumbnails dresdens-003.jpg   unknown-pics-008.jpg   pic-b-cats-spider.jpg   pic-5.jpg   pic-78.jpg  

003.jpg   007-copy-2-.jpg   005-copy.jpg   008-circled-pins.jpg   018-copy.jpg  


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