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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. We are

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inside the vendor mall. It's
just opening day two Friday,

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and I'm joined by a very
special friend. Welcome, Mary

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Sarnowski.
>> Thanks, Deanna.

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>> And Mary, you are founding
member John Moszkowski's.

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>> Wife. I sure am, yes.
>> So we've. John Moszkowski

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was director of television,
worked at PBS Wisconsin for

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over 40 years. Right. He. Did
you and your family moved to

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this area so he could take the
position at PBS Wisconsin? He

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did.
>> He did.

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>> That's true. And shortly
after that, you made your first

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quilt.
>> That's true. I made it,

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actually, when we lived in
Massachusetts, Springfield,

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Massachusetts, John worked for
Wgby for four years, and I

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that's where when we were there,
I was pregnant with Ben, our

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first son. And while I was
pregnant, I started making this

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quilt and I was piecing it by
hand. And the.

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>> Very first quilt.
>> My very first quilt. And I

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designed it as well.
>> It's beautiful. A half

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square triangles.
>> And but then it went in the

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closet for.
>> After the boys were born.

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>> Yes, for over 40 or 30 years.
And then when our. When Ben and

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his wife were pregnant, then I
started. I finished it for Lily,

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our granddaughter. So that's
what the. And I really. Five

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and now Lily's five.
>> And she's still snuggling

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with it. She had to give it a
good snuggle. Before she let

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you bring it.
to let go of it, but we told

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her she'd get it back.
>> So sweet. Well, I think your

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first quilt is fabulous. It's
timeless. The colors are

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gorgeous. Yeah, and fun
memories. Quilting.

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>> Definitely.
>> So our fond memories of John

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are, you know, 21 years of the
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show. We

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lost John in May. So this is
our first quilt show without

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John. Yes. And next year will
be ten years since Nancy Zieman

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passed away.
>> Oh my gosh.

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>> So we're missing both of
them founding members. They got

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together and had this great
idea to celebrate quilters and

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the artistry of quilts and make
quilters come together from

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across Wisconsin, Midwest, and
really across the United States.

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And now we're international,
too. There's international.

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>> People are amazing.
>> Yes. So it's a great legacy

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that Nancy Zieman and John
Mackowski have left for us. And

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we're honored to carry that on.
>> Yes. John loved Quilt Show

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and.
>> And you came every year with

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John.
>> We came every year. We

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usually because he was usually
busy wandering around working

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and working.
>> In the PBS.

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>> Oh yeah. Doing his PBS thing.
And I, we would each look at

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the quilt show separately. So
you'd take pictures. We'd go.

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>> Through the central quilt
exhibit.

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>> Yeah.
>> Separately.

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our favorite ones. And then we
would compare afterwards and we

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would have pictures of the same
quilts. We just had a very

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similar. Yeah. Similar esthetic.
>> He was such a creative guy

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and so great to work with. And
he was the biggest champion of

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the work we're doing for the
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show. And

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it was.
>> A great champion of of women

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and women's work and the beauty
and the every day.

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>> Yeah, we so respect him and
will cherish his memories

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forever. And we're so glad you
could join us. I'm happy to

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celebrate John's legacy. We're
gifting you with this quilt.

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We're standing there.
>> Oh my gosh.

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>> So this is a quilt designed
by Nancy Zieman in 2014 and

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it's just beautiful. We thought
this would be a great place to

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hang it. We're we're standing
right inside the vendor mall.

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You turned left and we're at
the PBS Wisconsin membership

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booth, so you have two days to
come and see this quilt and

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everything else that the Great
Wisconsin Quilt Show has to

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offer.
>> Otherwise, then you'll have

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to come over to my house to see.
>> It. Yeah.

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>> Yeah. I'm just honored to
have something that Nancy

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designed and that You all put
together. It's just everything

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about it is so special.
>> Full circle. It's it's a

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wonderful thing that John and
Nancy built. And we're here to

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carry on and keep celebrating
our. Artistry in the beauty of

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quilts. Yes. From Wisconsin and
beyond. Yeah. What are you

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going to do first today?
>> I'm going to go through tour

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the quilt exhibit and take some
photos. Pictures? Yep. And then

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I always use one of the photos
or a photo of a quilt as my

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screen backdrop on my phone. It
changes every September.

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>> To the new photo.
>> To to a new photo. Last year,

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I and what's on my phone right
now is a quilt that Laura

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Wasilowski made. Yes. It's a
wall hanging and it's got

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bright greens, which is my
favorite color. And everybody

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remarks when they see my phone,
they're like, oh my gosh,

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what's that? It's a quilt.
>> Laura Ruszkowski.

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>> Yeah, that's right. It's one
of the fusion ladies.

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>> Mary Sarnowski. Laura
Wasilowski. That's right. Oh,

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it's such a joy to see you.
Mary. And I enjoy visiting with

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you always. Thank you. Enjoy
the show. Thank you. You're

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welcome. Thank you for joining
us. Thank you. And thank you

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for tuning in and joining us.
And I hope to see you here at

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the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show
in Madison, Wisconsin. You have

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two more days to enjoy
everything that the quilt show

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has to offer. And we
interviewed Mary today, and

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John has left a legacy for
another project we did at the

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Great Wisconsin Quilt Show, the
Black Diamonds quilt exhibit.

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So you can see that video that
we just recorded at quilt

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show.com/live. And to learn
everything about this year's

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event and next year's event,
head over to Quilt show.com.