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

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live at the Great Wisconsin
Quilt Show in Madison,

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Wisconsin. We're here behind
the scenes. The first day of

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the show. It's Thursday. The
doors are open. I'm joined by

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Kate Alkema, one of our
quilting judges. This this year.

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And Kate, tell us about the
best to show. We are standing

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in front of the Best of Show
Quilt.

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this year. Sandra Borg and Mary
Walter and I judged all the

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quilts yesterday, and this one
rose to the top. Among all the

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beautiful quilts. This quilt is
by Margaret Solomon Gunn of

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Gorham, Maine. She used silk
that she hand-dyed. Plus she

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did an excellent job. Isolate
with isolating cutting

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techniques on her fabrics to
create the many layers of this

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design. It's amazing.
>> So it looks to me like it's

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machine pieced and machine
quilted.

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>> Yes, it's machine pieced.
Some fabulous quilting, machine

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quilting. Many different
decisions were made in terms of

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fabric, in terms of the thread
color for the quilting, in

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terms of the quilting designs
themselves, the overall

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medallion setting is beautiful.
Her technique is excellent and

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she made so many designs. We.
We choose quilts based on the

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complexity of the design and
the degree of difficulty in the

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workmanship, and she certainly
has a very complex design with

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many layers to it. And her
workmanship is exquisite.

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>> This stitching is beautiful.
The fabric selection is

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beautiful. The. Like you
mentioned, the fussy cutting of

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each individual piece. She. She
chose a design in the fabric.

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Right and fussy.
>> Cut each one specific shapes

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and then put them together a.
That's a great deal of

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difficulty to create all those
matching shapes.

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>> And keep track of all those
pieces, and then assemble them

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in the correct order.
>> Yes, yes. And her thread

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work and she has extra black
thread work around some of the

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motifs which make them pop out
for the viewer. We had a hard

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time choosing quilt because
there were so many wonderful

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quilts, and the first place
quilts you need to go look at

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all of them because they're
wonderful. But this one rose to

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the top.
>> The colors, the beauty, the.

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It's just striking and it's
right inside the front doors of

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the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show
right at the PBS Wisconsin

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booth. You have to come to the
show and see this quilt and all

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other all of the other quilts,
nearly 300 quilts in the

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central quilt exhibit and the
ribbons are in place.

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>> The ribbons are in place.
>> You can see the winners

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today. Starting today, of
course.

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>> See all of them.
>> Thursday, Friday and

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Saturday. And Kate, we did an
interview yesterday. Yes. And

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we talked about how the judging
process goes. So right. You can

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see that at quilt show.com/live.
And they can tune in and watch

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all of our lives that we're
doing throughout the show.

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>> Yes. You're doing many.
>> Every 30 minutes. So enjoy

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the show. Kate. I know it's
your day to walk around.

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>> It's my day to relax and
enjoy the show.

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>> Congratulations. Shop and
shop. Congratulations. Job well

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done. It was a lot of work. I
know, I appreciate.

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>> It, but I enjoyed it. Thank
you very much.

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>> You're welcome and thank you
for tuning in. And be sure to

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come to the Great Wisconsin
Quilt Show and to learn more

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about this year's event and
next year's event, head over to

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Quilt show.com.
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