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Table
of Contents - Stolen Quilt? Do not forget
to photograph and have your quilts appraised!
- Software Reviews
- Creative Impulse: Wow, this
program is experiencing a surge in popularity, about TIME! Included here is an
article by Birte Hilberg, the program developer, she tells you how Creative Impulse
works and why she developed the program.
- Repligator:
A New and Innovative approach to enhancing your quilting designs or website
graphics!
- Quilt-Pro 3
just keeps getting better with age, like fine wine! Version 3 released
on time and is receiving rave reviews. Check out my
review and our discount pricing,
find savings that can not be beat!!
- New additions to Frequently asked
Questions
- Should I Upgrade my
Computer Quilting Program? by Sharla Hicks
- Clearing
up the Mud surrounding Copyright for Electric Quilt, BlockBase, SewPrecise and
their Support Books. by Penny McMorris
- New Additions to the
Virtual Gallery since the last newsletter Remember, I am always looking for
more quilts and galleries to add. For instructions on how to participate, go to
the bottom of the Gallery page.
- Lani
Nagy and Judy White
have added their quilts created using Electric Quilt 3
- Kathleen
Bisset has added 2 quilts from her Coffee table, she used Photo Deluxe,
Stitch Painter, and a digital camera
- In the News
- Electric
Quilt News: EQ announces Upgrade release in the spring with free upgrade offer
to anyone purchasing EQ 3 NOW. Check out some of the new features for EQ 4 and
our discount pricing (WOW) (click
back in your top menu bar to return to this newsletter)
- Quilt-Pro
3 News: Quilt-Pro 3 released December 15, 1998 as promised and its new enhancements
have been well received, but as often happens with the release of new software,
it has a few bugs and Jim Salamon (program developer) has been very busy fixing
them. You can download the updates at http://www.quiltpro.com and select UPDATE in the Navigation
Bar (click back in the browser's bar to return to this newsletter).
I would suggest that you visit this site occasionally and update just for good
measure.
- VQuilt News: VQuilt has recently opened up a new
Website. Check it out, it will be going through several transformations
as time goes by, Phil loves programming and will not be able to resist the call
of enhancing his website. (click back in your top menu bar to return to
this newsletter)
Stolen Quilt: No picture??? Editors
note: The need for photography and quilt appraisals is a necessity.
Quilters today are shipping, exhibiting and lovingly offering quilts for use,
thus losing the ability to keep them 100% safe, even in our homes and cars there
is the threat of fire and burglary. The last two quilts listed on my
Stolen Quilt Page Listing do not have photos or appraisals , this will
make their recovery or monetary compensation (better than nothing) much more difficult.
I encourage you to photograph undocumented quilts ASAP and, if you can afford
it, get an Quilt appraisal done that is the documentation you can use to add insurance
riders for art in your home. Stolen Quilt, No picture. Stolen from
Tampa Bay Sewing Center located in Joann Fabrics in Brandon, Fl. - Sampler
pattern in shades of lilac and purples.
- Border: 3 " lavender print
border, then approx 12" off
white muslin, then another darker border..Then
finished off with a saw tooth border of all the fabrics used in the quilt. - Was
signed on the back with the name --Marge Krumroy.
- Back was off-white
muslin.
If you know anything about this quilt, please contact Marge
at: MKrum56199@aol.com
Software Reviews
Creative Impulse  I have been telling anyone who would listen
for over 3 years about the wonders of this innovative and wonderful program, Creative
Impulse. And recently, my mail order business experienced an upsurge in orders
buying the program, its about time! Creative Impulse has much to offer.
 I suggest that you
take the time peak into the program with the help of Birte Hilberg's new website
(she and her husband are the program developers) and it fabulous Guided Tour (developed
by her son, its a family affair), and her article below, you can get a look for
yourself at the delights that Creative Impulse has to offer. To
download your demo good for 3 weeks click here, you will be amazed! I
also have a Creative Impulse review
page that you will want to explore also and I carry the program at our
new discount price of $85.95,
regularly $89.95.
 The
wonderful graphics you are seeing are created in Creative Impulse by Birte herself.
She has also written an article to help
us understand the user simplicity built into the program that still creates these
outstanding images.
Birte begins her article
with the following explanation: I t wasn't boredom nor
an urge to make a design program, that set the ball rolling in 1982, but the burning
desire to find an answer to a very simple question. I had just become hooked on
patchwork and wanted to know "how many designs could be made from a square
containing a black and a white triangle?" Simple mathematics told us that
there would be thousands and we knew that writing a small computer program would
help us in our search for the answer. A small DOS program, later called PC-PATCH,
did produce thousands of designs, some of them well known to patchworkers, but
most were new and original. We were delighted with the results.  As we all know, hobbies
have a tendency to take over ones lives and it didn't take long before I thought
of new more complex questions, that only could be answered by expanding the computer
program. Sixteen years later and we're still spending much of our spare time exploring
new and exciting ways of creating unique designs with the aid of a computer.
In
1992 we started rewriting the program for Windows. This enabled us to expand the
program considerably and we decided to try combining our simple vector graphics
with a specialized bitmap editor, which makes possible the application of a multitude
of special effects to the designs. This turned out to be extremely successful;
traditional-looking designs could quickly and easily be transformed far beyond
anything we could have imagined! For the rest of her article, more graphics
and information on how to make Creative Impulse sing, click
here. To order Creative Impulse, click
here. -
Repligator
-
New Shareware Available from Soft Expressions This
new, innovative software's greatest selling points is its ease of use. The learning
curve is almost non-existent. Bring in your imagination, push F7, F8 or F9 and
you have instant, new design ideas. What a Design Aide! See below a innovative
block that I have manipulated into 3 marvelous color and design ideas and 3 versions
of quilt that has been transformed. -
 - The possibilities are endless! Words just
don't do the program justice, try out the free demo version then come back and
order your own personalized version with expanded capabilities, more image storage
and "no" shipping charges because you receive it via e-mail for only
$29.00 for a disk add $5 and shipping costs.) To
order, click here. For more information about Repligator, go
here. Want to have another opinion? Check out this fun
and quite humorously written review of Repligator on another site, then come
back and order from us because we have the best discount pricing around!
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- UNTIL NEXT TIME
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May all your time creating Computer Quilts be a Joy, filled
with right brain escape, and result in that much sought after finished
Fabric Quilt, if not at least a very nifty Virtual Quilt that you send to me to
display in the VIRTUAL QUILT GALLERY !!
-
Sharla
Hicks
Editor of Computer Quilting BYTES -
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