Hello, I'm Deanna Springer live at the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show with insights to this year's event. I'm joined by Bill
Hoernke, one of our faculty members. Welcome, Bill. Thank
you. >> Good morning. Good morning
everyone. It's Thursday at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show and
you're setting up for your first lecture of the weekend. Tell us
about this quilt. I know it's a Bargello quilt.
>> That's right. So this quilt I made quite a few years ago,
well, a few years ago. And I saw this quilt, not this very one,
but one just like it at a quilt show and at one viewers first
choice. And I was like, that's the quilt I want to make. So I
got inspired, looked for the pattern, found it in this book.
>> And what's the title of the book? More Twist and Turn
Bargello Quilting by Eileen Wright. Yeah, and it's a
martingale. Book C and T, okay. >> And I was a new quilter.
Thought this would go together lines.
remember doing this project on sewing with Nancy in the early
80s, and it looks very intricate. Even our video team
thinks, wow, that's an intricate quilt. It's when you break it
down and teach the methods. It's strip quilting that you cut
apart, that you cut the strips apart, resew them together. One
block offset, right? >> Right. And different widths,
different widths, varying the widths. Yeah. And what's special
about this quilt? I'm a scuba diver and underwater
photographer, so I named this quilt Fiji Coral Reef. And I
used photos that I took underwater to pick the colors
for this quilt. So it's really special. It's beautiful.
>> What a what an inspiration to find your colors. So you're
teaching the lecture Bargello lecture all three days this
weekend. Two days Thursday and Friday morning. And then you're
teaching what else this weekend? >> I'm teaching a class on sit.
And so that's quilt piecing, a pattern that was originally
developed by Claudine Hansen. I recognize it right here. It's
called Claudine's delectable Mountains, lots of different
delectable mountains patterns. This one's a little bit
different because it uses a 60 degree ruler to make those more
gentle peaks. learn in this workshop?
>> How to piece together equilateral triangle pieces?
>> That sounds difficult. >> It's different. It's I make
it easy. >> You'll make it easy for us.
Great. And I also know you're doing some, a hands on workshop,
right? triaxial fabric weaving, several
years ago, and just love it. And I'm going to be teaching a class
on this on Saturday. Unfortunately, it's one of the
first things that sold out. So you can't beautiful.
>> It's popular, but I know the book is available here at the
show as well. Right. And this looks like it's tiny piecing,
but it's not once you take a close up look at it, it's strips
of fabric that are woven together. Right. It's beautiful.
And we recognize the fabrics there. Cherrywood fabrics and
Cherrywood is here as a vendor. So yeah, yeah.
>> I quickly threw this together for Karla Overland, who is the
owner of Cherrywood. I kind of owe her a little special
something, so I just made this for her.
size take? >> A few hours. Really Making
the strips? Yes. Making the strips ahead of time is the most
important. And time consuming thing.
pressing of your strips is really perfection. Great job is.
>> Thank you. >> Great color choices too.
>> Well, this is a pack that I got from Karla called Galaxy. So
I just use all those eight. Yeah. The eight. Fat quarters.
Right. And she does the color steps for us.
>> We learned that yesterday talking with her. So you can
watch that video that we did yesterday and learn about that.
So what a great gift. Thank you. Spoiler alert Karla you're
getting a little mini wall quilt Bill, it's so great to have you
here teaching and it's great to be here.
>> Thanks for having me. >> You have a wonderful weekend
at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show.
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