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Repligator works
by taking your original design and mutating it using one of its filters into something
entirely different. Like Creative Impulse,
it takes practice to control and predict the effects. It's so effortless and fun!
Not every resulting design is beautiful or worthy of making into a quilt, but
I use it as an idea generator. -
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that it is a good idea to start with a very simple design, because Repligator
will quickly make it more complex. If I want to end up with a design that
is even remotely possible to sew, I need to make it simple in the beginning.
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- Here is an example of something I might start with--- a very simple applique
quilt designed in Electric Quilt 4.
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Figure 8 Once this design is imported into Repligator, I can choose to let
the built-in Wizard choose design transformations for me or I can choose which
transformation I want directly. There are 28 possible transformations available,
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- The transformations have interesting names, like: Wood, Bubbles, Clouds, Explode,
Mad Painter, Relief Map, Primitive Art, and Mosaic. Repligator has humorous aspects.
For example, when choosing the Mad Painter effect, one can adjust a sliding bar
in a dialog box for how many brush stokes one wants in the picture, how wide and
long the brush strokes are, and how mad the painter is!
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of my favorite transformations in Repligator
is called Marilyn Warhol. One of the possible looks for the Marilyn Warhol transformation
to the above quilt is shown here:
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9
- This
would be fun to try to accomplish in fabric. I might try a combination of sewing
techniques including piecing, applique, fabric painting or stenciling and embroidery.
I would not use the Repligator
image as a final pattern, but rather as an inspiration for free form cutting,
piecing and applique; or, I would interpret this design more conventionally into
Electric Quilt 4.
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effect in Repligator can be adjusted
to a certain extent by user-controlled settings, which are fun to play with. The
resulting transformed images can also be combined with the original image in various
ways. This is called vignetting or mixing. These effects allow the original image
to appear to be layered above or below the transformed image, as in Figure 9 above.
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can be transformed into something completely unrecognizable. For example, the
following is a simple pieced quilt designed in Electric
Quilt 4.
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StarDust effect mixed with the original image produces the following design:
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- But, if I choose the Mosaic effect and
don't mix it with the original image at all, I'll get a much more abstract effect:
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- As you can see, Repligator
has a great deal of potential for creating interesting artistic designs for patchwork,
applique, and many other crafts. Here are some other examples of designs I've
created using Repligator. All
of these designs were originally created in Electric Quilt and then manipulated
further using Repligator.
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- OTHER GRAPHICS SOFTWARE
- Sometimes
I use a paint program to finish or adjust my final designs. I may decide I only
want part of a design made in Creative
Impulse or Repligator. In
that case, I will open the saved image in a paint program and crop it to just
the part I want. I also sometimes use a paint program to draw freeform machine
quilting lines on a quilt image, which was created, with Electric
Quilt 4, Creative Impulse, or Repligator.
I can then use the drawn lines like a map when I'm actually quilting my quilt.
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It seems to me that I've barely
scratched the surface of computer quilt design. With these wonderful programs,
including Electric Quilt 4, Creative
Impulse, and Repligator, on
my computer, the big challenge is to find the time to make them. Finding interesting
designs is not a problem! -
Repligator and Creative Impulse each have a 
Introducing Claudia Wade If you
have any questions for Claudia Wade, you can contact her at cwade@kiwi.dep.anl.gov
For more information about Claudia, continue below. To
view a wedding quilt that Claudia made, click here! I asked Claudia
to tell us a little about herself and this is what she wrote: When
did you start quilting?
How long have you been quilting? I
started quilting in 1978 or 1979, about 20 years ago. What got me started
was a major how-to article on patchwork on the front page of the women's
section
of the Chicago Tribune. It included a pattern with instructions. As
much as
the quilt biz has grown enormously since then, I can't imagine an article like
that appearing in a regular newspaper now! I went out and bought all these solid
color cotton/poly blends at JC Penney because there were no quilt shops, and I
bought CORDUROY for the backing. It never was finished and, believe you me, it's
just as well!
Do you teach or is this just for yourself --
or anything else in this vain. I taught one sampler quilt class
16 years ago and decided that teaching wasn't what I wanted to do. I have benefitted
from taking classes over the years from some wonderful teachers: Jinny Beyer,
Trudie Hughes, Caryl B Fallert, Ellen Eddy, Ginny Avery. A very pivotal class
for me at the time was Jinny Beyer's Quilt Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution
in April 1982. We saw lots of wonderful old quilts from the Smithsonian and DAR
Museum collections. But the gist of it was a drafting class. That was where I
learned how to categorize blocks by grid pattern and pretty much draw any pattern
I saw. A rotary cutting class I took with Trudie Hughes about 1986 or so
enabled me to start making quilts with accuracy faster, although I'm still really
slow, because I work full time and I like to work slowly because it's more relaxing
for me that way. I've also started dying some fabric. I quilt just for
myself and family. I really enjoy the process. I'm inspired by places, often places
I've never even been to. I like to read about cities, states and countries and
get a feel for the mood of a place. I also am inspired by movies. My next major
quilt, for example, was inspired by the movie, "Midnight in the Garden of
Good and Evil." What is your Style (it obvious contemporary
but do you have a special name you like to call it) I guess you'd
call my style Contemporary. I used to make mostly
multi-fabric scrap-type
quilts from aditional patterns. Thanks to EQ, I'd design the settings and borders
for myself so I wasn't dependent on patterns or books. As much as I love the graphic
impact of the old two-color quilts, it bores me to use a limited number of fabrics
in a quilt. I like to be making decisions about design or fabric up until the
end of a project. I work strictly by machine, both for piecing and quilting.
In the last year or so, my style is becoming freer and more non-traditional. I
love the fact that EQ4 lets you add assymetrical borders. That is going to help
me a lot.
Where do you live? I live in a far
northern suburb of Chicago, almost in Wisconsin.
Any other
personal details like other hobbies and interests. I work as a
Teacher's Aide in a computer lab in a large public suburban high school. I help
students and teachers with computer tasks that they might not know how to do,
such as graphs in MS Excel, file conversions, or whatever. Our school was one
of the first in the area to offer Internet access to students, so I've learned
a fair amount about how to do Internet research. Anything you want
to say about your family. I've been married to Bob Wade for almost
29 years, since just a few months after I graduated from college. The rest of
our family consists of our daughter Jessica who is 25 and a newly married to our
son-in-law Thomas Morris. They live in Columbus, OH, and they're both graduates
of Miami University, Oxford, OH. Our younger daughter, Bridget, is 22 and a student
at the University of Illinois/Chicago. They are all really supportive of my quilting.
They give me quilt fabric for Christmas and birthdays, etc. I love it when people
choose quilt fabric to give me....I feel it really enriches my stash to have someone
else do some of the choosing!
Anything else you want to say?
Just that I feel that computer quilting is going to be even bigger and
better in the future than it is now, as people get more experienced with their
computers and the programs get better and better!
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