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>> Hello, I'm Deanna Springer
live at the Great Wisconsin

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Quilt Show with insights to
this year's event. It is

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Wednesday set up day. All the
volunteers are setting up. All

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the quilts are being set up and
it takes many, many, many

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volunteers to do this. I'm
joined by Tracy Rucka. Hello.

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Welcome, Tracy. We've known
each other for a few years

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because you were a PBS
Wisconsin volunteer. I am I

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have been for probably a decade.
Yeah, we thank you for that. We

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could not do this show without
you, and we couldn't do what we

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do at PBS Wisconsin without you.
It takes all the volunteers.

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Yeah, hundreds, hundreds, lots
of shifts, lots of

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opportunities. About 500
volunteers for the Great

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Wisconsin Quilt Show. It's four
days, including setup day.

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You're invited to come Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, once we're

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all set up. But Tracy, you are
volunteering today. What are

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you doing here? Well, I'm doing
a couple of different things

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here today. This morning I
helped with G safe setting up

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their booth because they have a
quilt, auction and fiber arts

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auction every year. But then
I'm also volunteering for PBS

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this evening, being one of the
photography assistants, the

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people that are taking the
photos of the quilts that are

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going to be getting ribbons and
have one. So. So the award

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winning quilts at the end of
Wednesday, they're all hung and

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judged in one day. And then the
photographer comes in about

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5:00 and then you start
photographing all the quilts.

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So we, we move all the quilts
to one central photography

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station and then put them back
where they were hanging. It's a

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lot of fun. So I get to see
what, what part, what part of

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the. Yes, the winner you'll see
tonight. But it's top secret

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until tomorrow. The best of
show. Many other winners too.

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What? What position are you
doing tonight? Photographic

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assistant. I'm helping move
those quilts. You're doing the

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moving? Yeah. So you take white
gloves, a ladder, and you go

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pick up the quilt and bring
them on their pipe. And for the

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photographer to shoot. It's the
first time I've done that job.

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Oh. It's fun. It's a lot of fun.
I'll see you there too. What

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other jobs have you done at the
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show?

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Well, I've been a docent, so in
the actual quilt show itself,

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as the people come through and
look at the quilts, the docents

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are there with white gloves.
You can ask to see the back of

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a quilt because sometimes you
get a lovely surprise. And what

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people have done with the back,
and you can see the quilting

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even more closely. And so don't
hesitate to ask to see the back

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of a quilt. And we have a list.
Jess has made a list of all the

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quilts that have interesting
backs. Some of the quilts are

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Almost two sided, a quilt on
the front and the quilt on the

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back. Like you said, it's a
surprise and we've been sharing

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some of those videos on the
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show

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social media sites, and they've
been really well received. You

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like to see those quilts being
turned and to show the back. So

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that's always a fun job. And we
need like 20 quilt docents per

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shift. And shifts run 2 to 3
hours. We have sit down

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positions available, stand up
ticket taking. What else have

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you done? I've also been lucky
enough.

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a monitor and lectures, I've
been a monitor in the quilt

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classes where people are coming
to learn skills and different

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techniques, so I've been able
to watch and learn a little bit.

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>> You're learning too, while
you're sitting in and they're

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taking tickets or checking
people in or, you know, holding

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up quilts or just a classroom
attendant and a.

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>> Little bit of everything,
kind of many hands make light

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work.
show by volunteering different

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shifts, and you can also
receive free parking when you

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volunteer. So that's the only
segment of the Great Wisconsin

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Quilt Show that receives free
parking, because we appreciate

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you and we love your help and
all that you do to make the

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show happen. It's all because
of the volunteers. Thank you so

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much.
>> Organization that gets it

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all going.
>> Amazing organization.

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>> And but it's a fun to be a
part of it. We have so many

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talented people that have so
many skills and gifts. And then

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this is just a place that they
can come and level up and see

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what other people are doing.
And I'm sorry, I didn't.

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>> Mean volunteering for five
years.

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>> Yeah, right. And there's
some volunteers here that have

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been here all 21 years. It's
our 21st year.

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Expo.
atmosphere. It's like it's the

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once a year we get to see each
other. So it's great to see you.

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Tracy. I'm glad we ran into
each other. We saw each other

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at the electric needle last
week and I thought, let's do a

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video and share about the
volunteering opportunities.

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>> Right? We'd love to have you
and to learn more about

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volunteering and about this
year's show and next year's

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show, head over to Quilt
show.com.