- Quilts are like our lives--
each quilt holds an important story.
Between the first cut of fabric to the last stitch,
quilters explore a personal journey,
combining tradition, innovation, and inspiration.
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- Hi, I'm Nancy Zieman.
The tradition of quilting is deeply rooted in our history
while evolving with each generation.
Quilts connect us to the past,
as they hold our stories,
sewn piece-by-piece, and stitch-by-stitch.
While each quilter's reason for quilting varies,
they share the common bond of this traditional art,
the common desire to express themselves
through this labor of love.
- Sewing, for me, started when I was a child.
I had Barbie dolls and my mom had scraps of fabric
and I would sew clothing for them.
I started quilting about 25 years ago.
Initially, my husband thought my quilting was sort of ridiculous,
because you buy fabric, you cut it apart,
and you put it back together,
but now that he's seen me do it for a number of years,
I think he's gained an appreciation for it.
He talked about, in retirement, learning how to sew
because he's convinced he could do it.
And I guess I must make it look easy
because he thinks he's going to give it a try.
"Crazy Nine Patch" was a nightmare.
[chuckles]
My son and his wife choose the pattern
and they don't sew,
so they don't know how difficult the technique was.
The pattern was for a wall-sized piece
and oftentimes when you get a pattern for a wall-sized piece,
there's a reason for that.
Because if you make it bigger, it will make you crazy.
It was a method of stacking fabric and cutting it
and then, putting it back together in a different order
to create an unusual block.
They're fun to give as gifts
because no one's going to get the same thing.
But they also can't return it.
So if they don't like it, they're stuck.
[laughs]
I think everyone needs a hobby, an outlet.
Quilting is my outlet.
Well, I tell my husband, "I'm going to my happy place,"
when I come downstairs to my quilting room.
And he understands it.
It's just about being creative
and having things around me that give me joy.
- I have been making landscape quilts for about 20 years
and I frequently make paths through forests.
It just occurred to me that our lives are just a journey,
like a path in the forest,
and "Come Walk with Me" just kind of flowed
right out of that whole idea of walking with my husband.
I was thinking about fall,
because fall is my favorite season
and it was also my 32nd wedding anniversary,
and my daughter-- the last of children moved out,
so finally, we were experiencing being empty nesters.
And I was really looking forward to a time,
it was just the two of us again,
just like it was when we first got married.
Originally, I had a poem in my mind when I was making it,
and this is for my husband, and so the last stanza is:
"And as you gently hold my hand,
I'll hold on tightly too
and together we can walk along
until our time is through."
Kind of a mushy thing,
but I was feeling mushy when I made the quilt.
[laughs]
That was the inspiration.
And then, about three months later,
two of my kids moved back home,
but we don't need to talk about that.
[laughs]
- I teach quilting skills and sewing skills
to Hmong women, elders.
I started teaching here at Kajsiab House in 2009.
I brought one of my quilts with me to show the women.
And a woman turned to me and said,
"You teach us to make this?"
"Yes, of course, I'll teach you how to make this."
This is just beautiful.
So I've been here ever since.
It's been seven years, on a weekly basis.
- I do many different kind of cross stitches, different...
Also think about animals.
I think about the nature.
I think about trees and leaves
and so I do all different ones
so I have varieties.
- We focus on integrating their hand skills--
which are primarily in
cross stitch and reverse applique--
and we take those skills
and integrate them into more Western style quilting.
So we've kind of merged the two: East - West.
- [translator] The cross stitch are the skills
that both my parents taught me
when I was a young kid.
That's something that I would do for the rest of my life
for my kids to know and to remember that.
Sewing with the women makes me happy.
It makes me feel good,
and unlike when I was there in the jungle in the refugee camps.
- All of the women that are here came here
from Thai refugee camps
and were part of a resettlement process.
During the Vietnam era, the Vietnam War,
they needed to escape Laos if they wanted to survive,
so they are harrowing tales that I hear:
how they moved entire family groups
through the jungles in Laos
into safety in Thailand.
- It tells my stories ever since I came from Laos and Thailand
and how my life has been struggling
and how I survive and came to this country, so.
I will save these for my family.
I will save these for my kids and my grandkids to remember.
- They take great pride in what they can make with their hands.
And they're really pleased
to be able to make something and then give it
to family members, children, grandchildren.
[translator] - I did this quilt.
It's for my son, because I only have one son,
and for him to remember that it's from me, from his mom.
- I don't really have any particular ideas
or story behind the clothing or the quilt here.
Most of the quilt that I do
back in Thailand in the refugee camps
is most of the time because of stress.
I use quilting, and I used quilting as a way
to escape stress and to release my stress and my worries.
- This is giving them another place to put their needle work.
Another way for them to express themselves,
and to also provide something of lasting value
for their families.
- Even though we don't share a common language--
we use translators-- there's a real bond.
I feel a real bond with this group of women.
- It makes me feel happy.
Happy that to sew with Mahta and the rest of my sisters
here at Kajsiab makes me feel really happy.
*
- I think quilting, to me, means a hobby that I have
enjoyed over decades,
which has been just marvelous,
because not only does it relieve you
from the stresses of everyday life,
but it is something that has brought me
treasured friendships,
through good times and bad for all of us.
When I was a young mom, and working full-time,
my husband had a job where he was on the road a lot.
I really didn't feel like
I had a whole lot of time for quilting.
And one of my friends was a hand quilter.
So, I asked her, "How do you get so much stuff done?"
And she said, "I just start my day
"and if I can get three needles full of thread put into a quilt,
I feel like I have accomplished all I need to."
I asked her, "Well, how about, how much time is that?"
And she said, "About fifteen minutes."
And I decided, "I can do fifteen minutes a day."
And I have done that,
including holidays and most vacations.
And I do accomplish a lot.
It's the consistency that's important, I think.
I originally had a closet, and it wasn't really even big.
My sewing machine was on an old typewriter stand on wheels
and I would have to wheel that out and sew,
but I had the desire, so I could continue quilting.
We have probably 15 to 20 antique stores,
junk stores, consignment stores,
and I'll just go there and I'll find something
that will give me inspiration.
And it certainly isn't a quilt--
but it might be a piece of pottery, or...
vintage clothing, it could be.
I do have one quilt
that I just finished called "Chicago."
And it was made because I went on a boat tour
of the Chicago River.
And although it had been a dreary, rainy day,
which was all gray,
I put it down on paper, put it on graph paper,
and I made a purple, orange and yellow quilt out of that.
Right now,
I think I'm working on about five or six.
Completely different styles.
And I may be doing binding on one.
I'm finishing up a label on one.
I've just kind of started one
that I originally started 25 years ago
and I've started doing the final border on it.
And they're different styles and I find that's good,
because some are hand-pieced, appliquéd,
some are done on the machine.
And it's just a great variety.
I think that almost any personality could be a quilter,
if they had the desire,
because there's so many different types of quilting,
that if you're, you know, a very patient person,
who doesn't really like to be around other people
and you have good skills,
there's a lot of quilts for that.
- Creativity is so important for everybody
that's just like exercising is a need,
and eating right is a need,
being creative is a need too,
so that fills that need within me.
Chris and I met in 1994
when we were in the same quilt guild.
I'd asked Chris, "If I was interested in
going to Paducah to their show, how would we get there?"
and so she said, "Well, you could come with me."
So, we started traveling together then.
One of the churches that we like to go to for lunch
was Grace Episcopal Church.
- They have a garden there.
In that garden was
a beautiful dogwood tree and some crosses,
and just a lovely setting.
And we always wanted to do a slice quilt together.
And a slice quilt is one where
you take a picture and you cut it into to chunks
and different people make different parts of it.
- I was doing a lecture on a group of quilts
and it was the first time
that quilt was included in the lecture,
and so I told the story of the quilt to the group.
This one particular woman was in a walker
and she came walking toward me
with this very odd expression on her face.
And she said, "I'm an Episcopalian and a quilter,
"and I go to Paducah to see the show every year,
"and stayed with a friend of mine
"who also belonged to that church.
"And a few years ago, my friend passed away
and so I haven't gone back since."
And she said,
"And she's buried under the cross that's on that quilt."
Then she said, "Thank you for making the quilt."
And what a joy that was to know that
all that time that we put together in making this quilt,
we had no idea that it would touch--
You know, you always hope your pieces touch someone,
but that actually did and we got to hear about it
so that was really a blessing.
- I am a retired Lieutenant Commander
in the United States Navy.
And after I retired, I started teaching school.
I taught math and science.
Now, I just quilt.
I actually began making doll clothes
when I was six years old.
I would sit on the floor of the garage,
trying to make my mother's sewing machine work
and then, she finally gave up
and showed me how it worked and taught me.
And then, I became pregnant with my daughter
and I wanted to buy a quilt for her.
And I went into a shop and realized I could do that.
And so I bought a book.
It was a disaster.
But in a local fabric store,
one of the university professors had done her dissertation
on Amish quilting and was teaching quilting
and I took two classes from her.
I just kind of got stuck.
I stopped making clothing and started making quilts.
I kind of don't quilt like other people.
I get inspired by other people's patterns sometimes,
or quilts that I see,
but I think, "Okay, now how am I doing that differently?"
"Quezal" came out of a calendar
in a Secret Santa in a school I was teaching.
And I was teaching math at the time.
And it was mathematically put together, this medallion,
where everything was put together in a straight line.
There were no what we call Y-seams,
where they are set in and very difficult to do.
It was all established mathematically,
and I was fascinated by it.
There is so much math in a quilt.
We even use calipers that architects use
to determine what's a good border size.
You know, when you get all done,
you don't want to be an inch off
because as small as that sounds,
it can glare at you.
So, we're very mathematical in the process.
Even people who quilt who don't realize they're mathematical,
they really are, more than they think.
It's something you just try and you do it, and you learn it,
and it becomes sort of like walking.
It's not a difficult thing.
It's relaxing.
*
- Well, I did not come from a family of quilters.
I was, I think, about the first one.
After my grandma died, mother was going through her attic
and she found this old quilt top that had been rain-stained.
And it wasn't very pretty, but she said,
"I know if I give it to you,
you'll make something beautiful out of it."
It took me a long time to finish it,
and I did the whole thing,
quilting with a punch and poke method,
which is not the way you're supposed to do it.
[laughs] But it worked and...
But after that one project, I was hooked on quilting.
I get a lot of my inspiration from rugs.
This quilt, "Creation Springs Forth,"
I saw a rug from the 16th century.
And it was a little picture in black and white,
and it showed half the quilt,
but I drew the pattern out from that picture
and I made a lot of changes in it.
I'm not using the computer to draw my quilt.
I'm doing it with pencil and paper,
and that's just the way I like to work.
And I just make time each day
to do some quilting.
Some days a few hours, some days quite a few.
And it took 3,600 hours to finish that quilt.
It's probably been in 15 shows
and I have a lot of ribbons to prove it.
I've won "Best of Show" at the American Quilters Society
in Paducah, Kentucky twice.
I didn't accept the check
because I didn't want to give up the quilt.
And my husband almost died.
The first time, I turned down $15,000,
and the second time, I turned down $18,000.
He had told me, "If you die before I do,
I'm going to sell your quilts."
Well, in the last three years,
I've given away 11 quilts.
I fixed it so
he doesn't have to worry about who to sell them to.
I get a lot of satisfaction out of seeing
the design from my head to the cloth
and see that it's turning out
and I just, I feel good.
My husband could have a nervous breakdown watching me relax.
[laughs]
I want handwork to live on.
And that's why I'm teaching, and I'm only teaching work by hand,
because I kind of see it as a dying art.
I still do everything by hand
because, to me, that's a quilt.
When I'm finished,
it feels like a quilt,
and I just get a warm feeling when I see a handmade quilt.
So, I try to do it to the best of my ability
and after making a lot of quilts I've gotten pretty good.
[laughs]
- My mother made a lot of the clothes for my sister and I.
She would save a lot of the scraps
from those outfits that she made.
So we...
recently went through all of these scraps
and tried to sort them and figure out what to do with them.
And my sister is also a quilter
so we decided that it would be fun
to make a couple of quilts with these scraps
that were left over from our outfits growing up.
So, as we were going through all of these scraps of fabric,
we would come across one that, you know,
my mother had made an outfit for me out of.
And then, we would find
the matching, you know, fabric that my sister had.
We really remembered wearing those outfits
on different occasions:
first day of school or for a special holiday gathering.
We ended up making 60 blocks
with all of these scraps of fabric
and divided them into three quilts.
So I ended up with one, my sister has one,
and my mother also has one.
So, it was really a lot of fun both for us,
and as well as for my mother,
you know, watching us going through those,
and her, you know, self-reliving some of those occasions
>> WELCOME TO WISCONSIN PUBLIC
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QUILTS OF WISCONSIN."
AS YOU CAN SEE, EVERY QUILT
TELLS A STORY.
IT MAY BE MADE WITH FABRIC AND
THREAD BUT THE STORIES ARE
REALLY WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY.
AND JON, THIS IS AN EXCITING
TIME.
>> THANK YOU, I'M JON MISKOWSKI,
I'M THE DIRECTOR OF WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION.
I HAVE TO SAY THOSE DRESSES.
SO THAT TOTALLY TOOK ME BACK TO
MY MOM WHO SEWED CLOTHES AND
SUCH A WONDERFUL PHOTO THAT
REALLY CAPTURES WHAT THIS
CREATIVITY IS ABOUT.
IT'S ABOUT FAMILIES AND
CONNECTIONS AND WE SEE THAT SO
MUCH IN THE QUILTING.
I WANTED TO REMIND YOU OF
SOMETHING FROM MANY YEARS AGO, I
WAS AT A QUILT SHOW WITH MY WIFE
IN SUN PRAIRIE
AND I WAS GOING THROUGH THE
QUILT SHOW AND THIS WAS THE
FIRST QUILT SHOW THAT I HAD BEEN
TO AND IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AND ALL
THAT.
BUT THEN ONE TIME I WALKED UP
AND A QUILTER TOLD THE STORY OF
HER QUILT.
AND THAT WAS AN AMAZING
EXPERIENCE AND THAT'S EXACTLY
WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS WE HAVE
AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE QUILTS BUT
IT'S QUITE RARE, I THINK, TO
HEAR THE QUILTER TALK ABOUT
THEIR INSPIRATION AND STORIES.
>> YES.
IT CAN BE MADE VERY TRADITIONAL
OR VERY CONTEMPORARY BUT THEY
ALL TELL AN INTERESTING STORY.
YOU JUST DON'T MAKE A QUILT TO
MAKE A QUILT.
YOU MAKE IT TO SHOW YOUR LOVE.
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>> WHEN WORKING ON A PROJECT
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I THINK WHAT'S -- THERE IS SOME
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>> ABSOLUTELY.
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>> AND THE CULTURE THAT YOU SEE
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WHO DO THE-- WHO MAKE
THESE BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS,
TELLING STORIES AS THERAPY, IT'S
WHAT QUILTING IS ALL ABOUT.
>> YEAH, I THINK IT'S A GREAT
REPRESENTATION OF THE COMMUNITY
ASPECT THAT YOU SEE IN THAT
STORY, BUT YOU SEE THE FAMILY
ASPECT AND SEE THESE
CONNECTIONS.
AND WE THINK ABOUT HOW MANY
QUILTERS WE KNOW WHO WORK FOR
MONTHS ON A PROJECT.
>> YEARS.
>> AND POUR THAT LOVE AND THAT
ART AND CRAFT AND INSPIRATION
INTO IT AND OFTEN GIVE THAT
AWAY.
>> YES.
>> IT SHOWS WHAT --
>> RIGHT.
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>> THANKS FOR FOLKS THAT ARE
CALLING, IT'S TERRIFIC RESPONSE
AND WE HAVE THAT -- THIS FEELS
LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF A LEGACY
HERE.
THE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE WORKED
ON FOR YEARS.
"THE ART OF QUILTING" IS A
WONDERFUL LOOK AT OUR QUILTING
AND "AMERICA QUILT" IS A
WONDERFUL LOOK AT QUILTING OVER
TIME.
BUT AGAIN, VERY MUCH IN
THE SAME SPIRIT OF THE PROGRAM
THAT WE'RE WATCHING TONIGHT.
>> IT IS AND WHAT'S COMING UP
NEXT IS "INSPIRATION" AND WE'RE
STARTING OFF WITH AN ARCHITECT
TURNED QUILTER.
AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE
BRUCE SEEDS AND THE PRECISION
AND THE CREATIVITY AND
THE COLOR, OH, MY GOODNESS.
IT HAS SO MUCH GREATNESS IN IT.
SO STAY TUNED AND ENJOY
"TREASURED QUILTS OF WISCONSIN:"
"INSPIRATION."
- Quilting is more than simply stitching fabric together.
It's also about innovation--
using traditional methods in modern ways,
including different materials,
and incorporating bold techniques.
Ralph Emerson said,
"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Enjoy our next featured Wisconsin quilters.
They have indeed created new paths
with their intriguing and innovative quilts.
- I started this in 2008,
right with the downturn of the economy.
I had time on my hands because
my website design business was falling off.
So, I found this book that my mom had located
called One-Block Wonders .
I looked at the instructions and they were understandable,
so I thought, "Well, I'll try one.
"I have a sewing machine. I can make straight stitches.
I can cut straight lines."
Being a former architect, I know all about straight lines.
So I tried it, and as I was making it,
I was sharing my progress on social media
and my friends were responding enthusiastically.
And a friend of mine in LA
named Wayne Chiu, who's Chinese,
looked at it and he said, "Oh, that's a dragon."
And I looked at it
and it was immediately apparent.
He's right. That's a dragon.
I hadn't seen it...
so I found two black, two of the darkest pieces,
dark black pieces,
and I moved them into place to sort of form eyes.
And I called it "Dragon."
For me, it's more about
the exploration and the discovery
as I go.
Unlike in architecture, where you plan the thing ahead,
and then, you make the thing happen,
here I can't plan the thing ahead.
I don't know what it's going to look like.
I just take this fabric that looks good,
chop it up, and start putting it back together
and see what happens.
I need to be as precise as I can:
my blades sharp, my needles sharp, my lines straight.
And I often get the comment that, you know,
from other people who make quilts
that they wouldn't want to work this way.
It takes too much precision.
The finished quilt rewards the viewer
at different levels of magnification.
You can see one of my large quilts from
a hundred feet away
and you'll see the color, the overall shape,
and that's part of the design, that's intentional.
But then, as you approach it and walk up,
you can walk all the way up to within an inch of it,
and inspect the details
and then you can start to pick out the elements,
find the surprises.
You can find the eyes of the animals here.
And so, it provides joy at many levels.
And if you're a two-year-old boy,
as happened at the Milwaukee Art Museum,
a number of years ago,
he walked up and tried to smell the flowers in my quilt,
which was pretty darn cute.
[laughs]
- I love going the backroads with my bike,
and so I was riding along one day
and there was a farm that I was passing
and stopped suddenly
because there was a baby Swiss calf--
actually two of them, twins--
and their mother and I just thought they were so adorable.
I said, "Oh, I've lived in Wisconsin like 13 years.
I've never done a cow quilt."
I actually start with an original photograph.
And I spent some time creating
what I call kind of an original line drawing of that,
and played around a little bit with it.
I thought, "Well, I could play and change up this design
a little bit to create more whimsy."
I then thought about adding in a little friend.
And so, Texture Tweedy is on the back of Trish.
And I actually have to say
that Texture Tweedy has been traveling
and appears in a variety of the quilts that I create.
But I have had great response with Trish and Tweedy
and it was so much fun to be able to create it
and just enjoy the chuckles and the laughs
that come about
as individuals enjoy viewing the quilt.
*
- I've just have always made things from day one.
I've always created something from nothing
and had fun doing it
- I actually made my very first quilt
when I was five years old.
I sewed together the scraps from my mom's scrap bin
and included the furry toilet seat cover,
and then, gave it to my brother. [laughs]
My Grandma still tells that story.
The "Amazing Technicolor Dream Quilt" started
because of a challenge.
It was the scrap quilt challenge.
I love challenges, they are--
They inspire me to do stuff
that I may have had in the back of my head,
or maybe didn't know I was going to do.
So you just take fabrics and you sew them all together
and it makes it like really scrappy,
and I just had this rainbow in my head.
And then, I just started sewing and cutting,
and sewing and cutting.
And then this "Dream" quilt came about.
And that was sort of like a turning point, too,
in my quilting career.
That's where, I think, people started
to notice that I was a quilter.
You never know where inspiration is gonna come next.
You'll see a lot of trees in my quilts.
I live around-- I'm surrounded by 3,000 apple trees.
I love color...
My kids often ask me what my favorite color is
and it's rainbow.
'Cause I love them all.
I don't discriminate at all.
I think anybody can be a quilter.
Like a lot of people, when they find out I'm a quilter,
like "Oh, I wouldn't have patience for that!"
Well, I'm not a very patient person,
but I do like five projects at the same time.
I used to be a civil engineer,
so I have this mathematical side of me,
but I also have this crazy,
like, "Let's not worry about it..." side of me.
I make a lot of stuff is because I don't worry about it.
Like, I trust my gut and I do it, and if it's not right,
I just cut it up and do something else with it.
And I'm cool with it.
Quilting is my sanity.
When I'm being really crabby and my husband is like,
"Just go downstairs and sew something!"
Quilting keeps my mind busy,
and just keeps me more focused
and it makes me happier.
Right now, I'm, like, enjoying my passion,
but I'm seeing my kids grow up,
and they are getting to see me enjoy my passion, too.
- A big part of my work for the last several years
has been my fascination with "found objects"
in what would some people would call "trash" or "junk."
- I have four kids.
And one year, after Halloween,
behind our couch was a trough of candy wrappers.
Not just a few scattered back there,
but literally a pile of candy wrappers.
So I started incorporating those,
just tearing them, little bits of them,
pieces of them into my work.
That piece is then layered with other objects,
buttons, paperclips, rick rack, just junk jewelry,
all kinds of things.
I often look at the texture and color of things
and then start putting it into the work.
And then, I stitch the whole surface,
which sometimes can be a little challenging
'cause I have all these objects in there, and stiff wrappers.
I have to roll that
and get it through my sewing machine.
At one point, I was sewing
and the needle hit one of the objects on the surface
and the needle actually broke and bounced off my cheek.
And I went, "Whoa! This is not good."
So my sister, who is a scientist,
gave me a pair of clear, very clear safety glasses
that I can wear when I'm sewing.
So it sounds like, "Oh, sewing should not be dangerous,
but, you know, in this case it was a little weird."
- I've always sort of had an affinity for quilts.
I don't know why, I can't explain it.
All quilters will understand.
I didn't like working from patterns.
I didn't like making quilts that were already out there.
I don't know why.
I don't like to follow recipes.
I don't like to listen to my elders.
It was just something about:
I wanted to throw my own personality
into those designs.
I like modern movement.
I like geometrical abstraction in art, in painting.
I kind of surprised myself with this quilt.
I had been trying to break out of the severe geometry.
And trying to get some curves into my work,
and hadn't found out how to do it,
and I finally had this idea, like, wait a minute,
I don't have to make curved seams to get curves.
I can make the pieces themselves curve
as they travel down the quilt.
And it came out pretty well so I call it "Oh, Gee" because,
"Oh, gee, I can't believe that worked out as well as it did."
- O-g-e-e is also a design motif in architecture.
It's a kind of window, or molding,
and it has a curve to it,
so there is a bit of a double meaning going on.
The connection between making a digital design on a computer
and designing a quilt is pretty close.
It seems like I'm still cutting things up into pieces.
I will often start with a photograph
and I'll just go in and grab some pieces
out of that photograph
and then I'll stitch them back together
using the software.
The great thing is that it just happens a lot faster.
I can turn out
a piece a day, if I want,
instead of one quilt a month.
I think that quilters do have to have a flare for tedium,
and I don't have one.
I like things to be, to happen immediately.
I want to be instantly gratified,
but quilting will not allow that.
I mean, "A stitch in time saves nine."
And it actually saves, like, 89.
If you make a mistake, you cost yourself all sorts of time,
so you have to slow down.
There's no way not to.
It ends up being kind of a pleasant place to be,
when you're in that state while you're quilting.
I don't actually understand why men don't want to quilt more
because it has some of the things I think they love the most,
which is power tools.
I mean, a sewing machine is the ultimate power tool.
*
- The name of my quilt is "Untied."
The reason I named it that
is because it's all about the ties.
And I grew up in a family that was really all about
recycling and repurposing and using everything possible,
shopping small, staying local.
So one day I went to Dig and Save on Park Street,
and I looked around and I found some ties.
I knew I needed a lot of them, about 60.
And then, I went up to the cashier and she said,
"Okay, put them in the basket, and I'll weigh them
because you pay 50¢ a pound."
And she said, "So what do you going to do,
like, make a quilt or something?"
and I said, "Yes, as a matter fact I am."
"Do you need more ties?"
and, "How much money have you got?"
Well, I have $9 on me.
And she said, "All these ties under the counter here
"are ones that I was supposed to put out today
"so if I can put them all in your basket,
you can buy them all."
So I ended up doing that.
I don't know what I was thinking.
Before I knew it, I gave her $7,
and she was putting them all in bags,
and walked out to my car with all these ties.
And then, what I ended up doing,
was taking them home and washing them all.
And I counted them as I put them in the washer
and I had 80 ties.
I gave the few of them to my son
because I said, "You know,
"someday you're going to need ugly ties to wear to work,
and... a lot of these qualify."
- I retired from my job
and decided that I was going to do something exciting.
I tried jewelry making.
Too messy.
I tried pottery.
Too messy.
I went to a show at a mall.
I had never seen quilts before.
And I just fell in love,
and I said, "Does anybody teach this?"
And, of course, a dozen hands went up.
I did traditional quilting for about two years.
And then, I got a little bored.
So I thought,
"Well, it's illegal what I'm about to do,
but I don't care because this is how I want to quilt."
I decided to break rules
and simply cut fabric that looked like nature.
And I started cutting trees.
I cut them with scissors
so they wouldn't look like telephone poles.
And when I put them on the fabric,
to stick them there,
I used glue sticks,
which I still do today.
To be a quilter,
it's wonderful if you love precision.
To be a landscape quilter,
it takes a little guts,
because you're really painting with fabric.
Finding the right fabric
and the scale that works with your scene
is crucial.
So I tell quilters something they love to hear:
"Buy a lot of fabric."
You need work from the far-back forward
in order to get the scale and color
because color fades in the distance.
My wooded scenes are probably my favorite to do.
I was on my way
to Paducah, Kentucky for the quilt festival
for the first time,
and on the side of the road, we saw a dogwood in bloom.
It was breathtaking
and I decided that I just had to portray that.
And when I got home,
I started working on "Kentucky Dogwood."
That quilt ended up winning 1st in its category in,
at Paducah the following year.
Now it's been 23 years doing landscape quilts
and I love it as much as ever.
Quilting began as an exciting hobby
and ended up being a vital part of my life.
I don't know what I would have done without it.
>> IF YOU DIDN'T SAY "WOW"
SOMETIME DURING THE LAST
20 MINUTES, I'LL BE SURPRISED.
WHAT A DIVERSIFICATION FROM KIM
TO BRUCE TO NATALIE AND WENDY.
NO TWO QUILTS ARE ALIKE.
NO TWO QUILTERS ARE ALIKE
AND THEY EACH APPROACH IT
IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
I LOVE IT!
>> THE ART, THE INSPIRATION,
THE THOUGHTFULNESS.
WE WANT TO THANK ALL THE
QUILTERS FOR SHARING THEIR
STORIES AND SHARING THEIR TIME
WITH US AND SHARING THESE
GREAT CELEBRATION OF QUILTING
IN WISCONSIN.
SO TONIGHT, WE'RE ASKING YOU TO
SUPPORT WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION.
SUPPORT PROGRAMS LIKE THIS AND
WE HAVE A SPECIAL INCENTIVE IF
YOU DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
THIS IS A CHALLENGE BREAK WHICH
MEANS CURRENT MEMBERS OF
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION HAVE
MADE A SPECIAL GIFT.
ABOVE AND BEYOND THEIR ANNUAL
SUPPORT, TO MATCH NEW DONORS
WHO CALL RIGHT NOW.
SO THE FIRST $1,000 PLEDGED
FROM NEW DONORS WILL BE MATCHED.
SO WE'RE HOPING IN THESE FEW
MINUTES WHILE WE'RE TALKING TO
YOU, WE'LL HEAR FROM 50 FOLKS OR
MORE SUPPORTING WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION AND THIS CELEBRATION
OF WISCONSIN'S TREASURED QUILTS.
>> WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL MAKE
YOUR VOICE HEARD IN WISCONSIN
LETTING US KNOW THAT YOU LIKE
THIS TYPE OF PROGRAMMING BECAUSE
WE LIKE BRINGING IT TO YOU
BECAUSE I THINK IT HAS SUCH
DEPTH AND MEANING.
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING AND
SUPPORTING WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION.
>> THANK YOU, NANCY AND JON.
AS JON MENTIONED, NOW IS THE
PERFECT TIME TO GO TO YOUR PHONE
AND CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR
SCREEN AND TALK TO ONE OF OUR
VOLUNTEERS.
WHEN YOU DO, WE HAVE SPECIAL
THANK YOU GIFTS THAT WE CAN
SEND YOUR WAY.
IF YOU CALL AND JOIN US THIS
EVENING WITH AN ONGOING MONTHLY
GIFT OF $7, WE WILL SEND YOU A
COPY OF "TREASURED QUILTS OF
WISCONSIN" SO IT'S A GREAT WAY
FOR YOU TO GO BACK
AND HEAR THOSE STORIES AGAIN.
YOU KNOW, I LOVE NATALIE'S STORY
ABOUT HOW SHE TRIED JEWELRY AND
TRIED POTTERY BUT IT'S WHEN SHE
WENT TO QUILT SHOW AND SHE
DISCOVERED QUILTING, THAT'S WHAT
CHANGED FOR HER.
I LOVE STORIES LIKE THAT ABOUT
PEOPLE, HOW THEY FIND THEIR
INSPIRATION AND HOW THEY CREATE
SO THAT IS SOMETHING YOU CAN
SHARE AND ENJOY WITH $7 A MONTH
ONGOING GIFT.
IF YOU CALL AT THE $15 LEVEL
EVERY MONTH, WE HAVE A FABULOUS
PACKAGE AND THIS IS NOT ONLY
A COPY OF "TREASURED QUILTS OF
WISCONSIN", THE PROGRAM THAT
WE'RE WATCHING RIGHT NOW.
BUT ALSO TWO OTHER WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS.
"AMERICA QUILTS" WHICH LOOKS AT
SORT OF THE HISTORY OF DIFFERENT
PHASES OF QUILTING AND INCLUDES
A TRIP TO PADUCAH WHICH
IS A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL
AND AMAZING QUILT SHOW.
AND WE'LL SEND YOU A COPY OF
"THE ART OF QUILTING"
THAT LOOKS AT MORE
CONTEMPORARY INNOVATIONS IN
QUILTING SO EVERYTHING FROM
FUSING TO ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT
TECHNIQUES.
AND WE WILL ALSO SEND YOU ON TOP
OF THAT A WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION TOTE BAG SO WE HAVE
MANY WAYS TO THANK YOU BUT WE
NEED YOU TO GO TO THE PHONE AND
DIAL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN.
>> THIS IS REALLY QUITE AN
EXCITING PROGRAM TO HAVE ALL
THESE GREAT ARTISANS
IN ONE PROGRAM ON ONE DVD.
I HAPPENED TO KNOW MANY OF THEM
AND TO SEE THEM ALL TOGETHER
KIND OF GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS.
THERE ARE BONUS SECTIONS ON THE
DVD THAT YOU WILL NOT SEE
DURING THE AIRING RIGHT NOW.
PERSONAL INTERVIEWS AND INSIGHTS
SO THAT MIGHT BE A NICE
INCENTIVE FOR YOU TO LISTEN TO
THAT AND WATCH IT, OF COURSE,
NOT JUST LISTEN.
A LITTLE BIT LATER, AFTER YOU
RECEIVE YOUR DVD IN THE MAIL.
I THINK THIS SEGMENT THAT YOU
JUST SAW JUST SHOWS YOU THE
DIVERSIFICATION OF QUILTING FROM
PAT, WHERE SHE'S SEWING AROUND
PAPER CLIPS AND
BUBBLE GUM WRAPPERS,
AND THEN TO THE PRECISION OF
BRUCE SEEDS AND KENT WILLIAMS,
THOSE LITTLE ONE INCH STRIPS
OF KENT WILLIAMS
MAKES MY HEAD TWIRL.
SO IT'S -- THERE'S SUCH GREAT
VARIETY IN QUILTING.
AND I HOPE YOU'RE
ENJOYING THE SHOW.
>> THANKS FOR FOLKS WHO ARE
CALLING RIGHT NOW.
AND IF YOU'RE ON THE PHONE, OR
ON THE WAY TO THE PHONE, I WANT
TO THANK YOU AS WELL AT
1-800-236-3636.
REMEMBER THAT WE HAVE THE
"TREASURED QUILTS OF WISCONSIN"
AVAILABLE FOR THE GIFT
OF $7 A MONTH.
WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO BECOME A
SUSTAINER OF WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION AND AS I TRAVEL
WISCONSIN, I LOVE, I KEEP
HEARING FROM PEOPLE WHO SAY,
"I LOVE PUBLIC TELEVISION.
AND I'M A SUSTAINER.
AND THAT MEANS A LOT TO US
BECAUSE IT'S REALLY ONE OF THE
BEST WAYS TO GIVE AND ONE OF THE
BEST WAYS TO HAVE THE MOST OF
YOUR DOLLARS GO TO SERVICE THAT
YOU ENJOY IN WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION.
AND THEN FOR A GIFT OF $15
A MONTH, WE HAVE ALL THREE
DVD'S THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT,
THAT KERMAN HAS TALKED TO YOU...
"AMERICAN QUILTS"
WHICH REALLY EXPLORES NATIONALLY
QUILTING ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AND A LITTLE BIT OF THE HISTORY
AND THE ROOTS OF QUILTING.
AND "THE ART OF QUILTING" WHICH
IS A REALLY WONDERFUL NATIONAL
CELEBRATION OF ART QUILTERS VERY
MUCH IN THE VAIN OF WHAT YOU'RE
ENJOYING TONIGHT.
YOU WILL LOVE ALL OF THIS
PROGRAMS.
AND THOSE ARE ONLY POSSIBLE
BECAUSE OF YOUR SUPPORT AND ONLY
POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF YOUR
CONTINUING SUPPORT FOR
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION.
GIVE US A CALL AT
1-800-236-3636.
>> IF YOU CALL AND TALK TO ONE
OF OUR VOLUNTEERS, WE HAVE SOME
THANK YOU GIFTS THAT
WE'LL SEND YOUR WAY.
WE'VE BEEN TALKING A GREAT DEAL
ABOUT "TREASURED QUILTS OF
WISCONSIN."
THE SHOW THAT WE'RE WATCHING.
IF YOU JOIN US WITH AN ONGOING
MONTHLY GIFT OF $7 A MONTH,
WE'LL SEND YOU A DVD COPY
WITH THAT AND AS WE MENTIONED
THIS DVD INCLUDES 30 MINUTES
OF BONUS MATERIAL SO
IT'S A FABULOUS ADDITION TO
ANY QUILTER'S LIBRARY.
BUT I ALSO LOVE WHAT WE HAVE FOR
YOU AND IT'S A GIFT IF YOU CALL
US AND JOIN US AT THE $15 A
MONTH LEVEL OF ONGOING SUPPORT.
WE'LL SEND YOU NOT ONLY A COPY
OF "TREASURED QUILTS OF
WISCONSIN", BUT ALSO THE DVD
"AMERICAN QUILTS" AND AGAIN,
THIS IS LOOKING AT SORT OF THE
HISTORY OF DIFFERENT PHASES
OF QUILTING AND INCLUDES
A TRIP TO PADUCAH.
IF YOU'VE NEVER HAD THE
OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO PADUCAH
IT IS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING
THINGS THAT YOU CAN SEE.
IF YOU'RE A QUILTER,
THIS IS DEFINITELY SOMEWHERE
YOU WANT TO GO.
THAT'S IN "AMERICA'S QUILTS"
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE "THE ART
OF QUILTING" WHICH LOOKS AT
CONTEMPORARY QUILTING,
PLUS WE'LL SEND YOU A WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION TOTE.
SO WE HAVE SOME
GREAT PACKAGES FOR YOU.
NOW WE NEED YOU TO GO TO THE
PHONES AND CALL US AT
1-800-236-3636.
>> I'M PLEASED TO SAY THAT
NUMBER 37 JUST WENT UP ON THE
BOARD FOR THE MEMBER CHALLENGE.
SO THANK YOU FOR CALLING IN
AND NUMBER 39.
THANK YOU FOR JUST CALLING.
I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
NOT ONLY DO WE DO PROGRAMS,
OF COURSE, IN WISCONSIN ON
QUILTING AND SEWING, ETC., BUT--
AND WE OFFER PROGRAMMING,
I SHOULD SAY
THE COLLECTIVE WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION OFFERS PROGRAMMING
FOR ALL AGES FROM YOUNG KIDS
TO PEOPLE THAT ARE MY AGE.
SO IT'S SO -- SUCH A GREAT
VARIETY AND SUCH CULTURE AND
HISTORY AND EDUCATION AVAILABLE
HERE, KIND OF YOUR ONE STOP SHOP
FOR LEARNING AND ENJOYMENT.
SO THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION.
IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT BEFORE,
PLEASE DO IT FOR THE FIRST TIME.
JON?
>> THAT'S GREAT TO HEAR
THE PHONES RING, AND WE'RE--
THE NEXT CALL WILL TAKE US
OVER 40 ON OUR WAY PAST 50.
WHAT A WONDERFUL RESPONSE.
I WANT TO THANK AND INVITE
PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE CAPACITY
TO CONSIDER A MAJOR GIFT
TO JOIN US IN THE
DIRECTOR'S CIRCLE OF FOLKS
CONTRIBUTING $1,000 A YEAR.
MANY CONTRIBUTES $100 A MONTH ON
THEIR SUSTAINING GIVING AND WE'D
INVITE YOU TO DO THAT AS WELL.
THIS IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT
REACHES MORE PEOPLE
WITH LEARNING AND ARTS AND
INSPIRATION AND PERFORMANCE
THAN ANY OTHER ORGANIZATION
IN WISCONSIN.
IF YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO MAKE
A MAJOR GIFT, CERTAINLY WE HAVE
DONORS WHO GIVE $5,000 A YEAR,
$10,000 A YEAR
AND UP AND BEYOND THAT.
WE INVITE YOU TO DO THAT, TO
THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE SEEN, TO
THINK ABOUT THE INSPIRATION THAT
PUBLIC TELEVISION BRINGS IN YOUR
LIFE AND THINK ABOUT THAT ACROSS
THIS STATE AND MAKE YOUR
CONTRIBUTION AND YOUR PHONE CALL
AT 1-800-236-3636.
>> AND, OF COURSE, WHEN YOU CALL
AND JOIN US THIS EVENING, YOU'LL
BE JOINING THE 43 PEOPLE THAT
HAVE ALREADY JOINED US AS
MEMBERS OF WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION.
REMEMBER, WE HAVE A GOAL
OF GETTING 50 PEOPLE
TO JOIN US HERE
AT WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION.
SO THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME FOR
YOU TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT PLUS
GET BACK TO ENJOYING THE FINAL
SEGMENT OF "TREASURED QUILTS
OF WISCONSIN."
AND THAT'S A SECTION ON
INSPIRATION AND THERE'S SOME
AMAZING STORIES THAT ARE COMING
YOUR WAY.
AGAIN, "TREASURED QUILTS OF
WISCONSIN" CAN COME YOUR WAY
WITH AN ONGOING MONTHLY GIFT
OF $7 A MONTH.
WE HAVE THAT FABULOUS PACKAGE OF
$15 A MONTH OF ONGOING SUPPORT
THAT INCLUDES "TREASURED QUILTS
OF WISCONSIN" PLUS TWO OTHER
DVDs AND WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION TOTE BAG.
SO WE HAVE MANY, MANY WAYS TO
THANK YOU WHEN YOU JOIN US HERE
AT WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION.
BUT REALLY, IT STARTS WITH THAT
FIRST STEP.
YOU THINK, I WANT TO SEE MORE
QUILTING PROGRAMS.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I VALUE.
SOMETHING THAT'S IMPORTANT
FOR ME.
FOR MY COMMUNITY.
AND I'M WILLING TO MAKE A
FINANCIAL-- GIFT OF FINANCIAL
SUPPORT TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
IT ALL STARTS WITH A PHONE CALL
TO 1-800-236-3636.
>> THANKS, KERMAN.
BEING A SUSTAINER IS ALWAYS
KNOWING THAT YOU ARE CURRENT
WITH YOUR MEMBERSHIP WITH
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION.
I KIND OF LIKEN IT TO IF YOU'RE
A QUILTER OR IF YOU HAVE A
FABRIC STASH, YOU KNOW THAT
YOU'RE UP TO DATE.
YOU CAN GO THERE AND DRAW UPON
IT AT ANY TIME AND THIS IS KIND
OF LIKE A-- IT'S A STRETCH.
I KNOW, IT'S A STRETCH.
BUT IT TELLS YOU
THAT YOU HAVE IT THERE.
YOU KNOW YOU'RE SUPPORTING
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION.
I THANK YOU MANY OF YOU
FOR DOING THAT.
WE'RE AT 50.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT
YOU SHOULDN'T CALL.
CALL IF YOU'D LIKE TO.
THANK YOU AND WE HAVE MUCH MORE
COMING ON THE TREASURED QUILTS
OF WISCONSIN WHEN I MISSPOKE
EARLIER.
WE'RE GOING TO GO TO
"INSPIRATION" NEXT
IN A LITTLE BIT.
BUT THERE, YOU'LL SEE MORE
AND MORE QUILT IDEAS.
THE VASTNESS, THE ARRAY OF
QUILTING THAT'S AVAILABLE FOR
BEGINNERS TO EXPERT QUILTERS
TO PEOPLE WHO JUST PLAIN ENJOY
LOOKING AT PRETTY THINGS.
ART.
THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE HERE FOR YOU
TONIGHT.
SO I HOPE YOU'RE ENJOYING THIS
AND WE HOPE TO HAVE YOUR CALL.
THANK YOU.
JON?
>> YOU MENTIONED EARLIER THIS
IDEA OF EYE CANDY BUT I THINK
THERE'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING
DEEPER THAN THAT.
AND THERE'S REALLY SOMETHING FOR
THE SOUL IN THIS PROGRAM.
SOMETHING THAT REALLY CONNECTS
COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES.
YOU SEE THE REPRESENTATION IN
QUILTERS QUILTING TOGETHER IN
THE PROGRAM.
YOU SEE COMMUNITY PROJECTS AND
YOU SEE THAT TREMENDOUS
OUTPOURING OF CREATIVITY IN THE
QUILTS THAT ARE QUILTS.
THESE ARE ALL QUILTERS IN
WISCONSIN THAT TONIGHT WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION IS CELEBRATING
AND INVITING YOU TO SUPPORT THIS
WORK WITH YOUR PHONE CALL WITH
YOUR PLEDGE OF SUPPORT.
THIS IS VIEWER SUPPORTED
TELEVISION, UNLIKE ANY OTHER
CHANNEL ON THE DIAL.
ONE THAT YOU AND I OWN AND YOU
AND I ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.
AND I INVITE YOU TO JOIN ME AS A
DONOR, AS A CONTRIBUTOR, AND I'M
GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT OUR
GOAL.
WE'RE PAST 50 BUT IT'S REALLY
WONDERFUL FOR YOU TO GIVE US A
CALL TO MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION
AND DO IT NOW.
AND SHOW US THAT THIS IS
IMPORTANT TO YOU AND WE HAVE
AGAIN THE "TREASURED QUILTS OF
WISCONSIN" WITH THE BONUS
FOOTAGE WHICH HAS JUST TOO MANY
QUILTS THAT YOU CAN -- TOO MANY
TO HANDLE IN SOME WAYS AND
ANOTHER 30 MINUTES THAT ARE
AVAILABLE ON THE DVD
GIVE US A CALL AT
1-800-236-3636.
>> THANK YOU, JON.
AND AS JON MENTIONED, "TREASURED
QUILTS OF WISCONSIN" IS A GIFT
THAT WE WILL SEND YOUR WAY IF
YOU JOIN US HERE AT WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION.
THAT COMES WITH AN ONGOING
MONTHLY GIFT OF $7.
IT HAS BONUS MATERIAL.
I LOVE THIS BECAUSE TO HEAR
QUILTERS TALK ABOUT WHAT
INSPIRED THEM, WHAT KIND OF
INNOVATIONS THEY STARTED WORKING
WITH.
WHAT ARE THE STORIES BEHIND THE
QUILTS?
THAT'S AN AMAZING THING TO SHARE
AND TO HAVE.
AND TO BE ABLE TO SEE AGAIN AND
AGAIN.
WELL, YOU CAN ALSO SEE THAT IF
YOU CALL AND BECOME A MEMBER AT
THE $15 A MONTH LEVEL OF ONGOING
SUPPORT THAT WE'LL SEND YOU A
COPY OF NOT ONLY "TREASURED
QUILTS OF WISCONSIN" BUT OF THE
DVD OF "ART OF QUILTING" THAT
GOES OVER OTHER CONTEMPORARY
QUILTERS AS WELL AS "AMERICA
QUILTS" THAT LOOKS AT HISTORY OF
SOME QUILTING PHASES AND WE'LL
SEND YOU A WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION TOTE BAG.
WE HAVE MANY WAYS TO SAY THANK
YOU TO YOU.
IT STARTS WITH YOU GOING TO THE
PHONE AND DIALING THE NUMBER ON
YOUR SCREEN.
1-800-236-3636.
>> THANKS, KERMAN AND THANK YOU
FOR YOUR PHONE CALL.
WE'RE HEAVILY ENGAGED IN QUILT
EXPO, THIS GREAT ANNUAL --
>> EVERY SEPTEMBER.
>> CELEBRATION OF QUILTING AND
FOLKS COMING FROM ALL OVER
WISCONSIN AND ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY.
BUT THIS PROGRAM REALLY COMES
OUT OF US SEEING THAT ENERGY AND
A LOT OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT
WE'RE WATCHING, A LOT OF QUILTS
THAT WE'RE WATCHING ARE FROM
QUILT EXPO.
>> THEY ARE.
WE TOOK A CREW THERE A COUPLE OF
YEARS AGO AND DID SOME OF THE
INTERVIEWS AND CAPTURED JUST
SPONTANEITY THAT WAS RIGHT
THERE.
NO REHEARSING.
SO IT WAS --
I MEAN, THAT'S THE BEST.
THAT'S THE BEST.
WHEN PEOPLE -- WHEN THE QUILTER
JUST TELLS THE STORY OF HER --
HIS OR HER CREATION.
SO SPEAKING OF CREATIONS, WE
HAVE MANY MORE COMING UP IN THE
NEXT SEGMENT CALLED
"INSPIRATION."
- Quilters find inspiration almost everywhere--
through nature, a walk, memory, or a special occasion.
These quilts hold their stories;
stories of loss and joy,
stories of culture or history,
stories that need to be told.
- Quilts are just so...
They're mysterious and they're wonderful.
They're endowed with story, I think.
And that is the thing that really inspires me.
I love story,
and I just feel like
when you're putting pieces of fabric together,
it's weaving a story.
When I was younger, my grandmother, she bought me a sewing machine.
Her mother died at a very young age.
And the one thing that she remembered
was her mother putting together quilt pieces.
It's one of the only memories that she has of her mom.
She didn't learn how to sew,
but she wanted me to learn how to sew.
And so, I kind of feel like
it's reaching into the generations
and pulling something out.
I met my husband's grandmother.
She was a quilter and she quilted by hand.
And I remember saying,
"I really would like to learn how to do it."
And she says, "I'll show you."
I had been one of those people who would peruse the quilt shops
and you'd see the rotary cutters.
And so, she's cutting the fabric
and I said, "Well, what do you cut it with?"
And she says, "With a scissors."
You know. [laughs]
As an author, I love story, just... period.
And I thought it would be really cool to,
you know, to do a story quilt.
It's the story about my parent's first date.
Everybody has various renditions of the story.
My mom and my dad are going on this date.
They were feuding with the family,
the Johnson family across the way.
They just happened to be in the middle of a family feud
during my parent's first date.
And my father comes...
brings my mom back and it's...
They're a little later than, you know, what's expected.
And they see my-- And he sees my grandmother
standing on the porch with a shotgun,
and he thinks the shotgun is for him.
That's the story that I've heard just growing up from,
you know, my uncles and my aunt.
A lot of the grandchildren in our family have heard.
I thought that it would be nice to memorialize it on a quilt.
I think story quilts are a wonderful way,
when there's something you want to pass down to your family,
there's something you want to remember,
you know, they can look at that quilt.
They can rattle off the details of that quilt,
and, by not even knowing it,
they're really taking in the family history
and the family lore that way.
- We used to camp all the time with my children
on the banks of the Mississippi.
In the month of August,
you have this spectacular display of meteorite shower.
And I remember we would be there, looking up
and your neck gets stiff,
and we had lounge chairs out, we're all laying down,
looking up and over there,
and this is happening over there,
and it was just like watching just a spectacular moment.
And that's what I wanted to show.
And I thought, it's like sharing with my three grandsons
something that was a part of their mother's life
that we had done a lot of times.
*
- The name of my piece is
"Faith, Family & Friends at the Crossroads."
The applique blocks tell the story
of my dad, my husband's mom.
They actually passed away two weeks away from each other.
And it really was that turned into something
that was a dedication to them.
And in the center of the quilt there's the cross.
And we feel like, through all of that turmoil,
it really brought us together,
but we were at the crossroads of life
because all of the sudden, we had no parents.
We were the next generation.
And it wasn't but a couple of months later
that we found out that
we would be grandparents for the first time.
So it just represents the whole circle of life
and all the good things that God has.
Even with sorrow, there comes joy.
- We met ten years ago while we were both artists
at the children's museum in Appleton.
And we were both giving programs there and we met and...
hit off a friendship.
After we started hanging out together,
we realized that we both had this wonderful folk art.
And one day we just got together and we were just saying,
"You know?
I'm a storyteller, of native stories,
and Pat, you're a quilter,
why don't we put this together?"
- And we thought
that quilts tell stories. - Yes.
- And so, by brainstorming it together,
we just thought it would be a great combination
of two different cultures
that were different to both of us.
I make the quilts so
I actually do the physical part of what you see
when Deb and I are doing our program together.
- And I'm the teller of tall tales.
I'm the story teller.
- I've developed some of the quilts
and then Deb looks at them and says,
"Oh, I have a great story that goes with that."
And then, sometimes it's the other way around
where she'll say, "I have this great story, Pat.
Do you think that you could make a quilt to help tell the story?"
So, it's kind of a give and take, both ways.
It just flows really easily between us, I think.
- I'm an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin,
Turtle Clan.
I've been telling stories forever.
And, of course, all of the stories that I do tell
are Native.
I just started to go into the classrooms
and start to tell a story here and there.
And then one day,
my husband said to me, "You love this.
"This is you. This is in your bones.
You really should think about doing this as a profession."
The quilts' stories,
that program "Native Stitches and Stories,"
just is always evolving.
We're always coming up with new ideas,
and new ways to get our story out there,
our message out there.
- This is the quilt that I made to represent the Plains Tribes.
The features of it are
the teepees in the middle with the storytellers.
- In the beginning,
when earth was still young,
and giants still roamed the earth,
a great sickness,
[shaker]
came over the earth,
and everyone died
[shaker]
except for one small boy.
[shaker pulsing]
And with the tears from Boy's eyes,
the rivers, the seas,
the lakes and ponds,
they all began.
And with Boy's body,
the mountains, the prairies,
the plateaus, and plains,
they all began.
And that is how earth began.
[shaker]
* [soft chanting]
*
- Both my mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunties...
all quilted.
Whenever we visited my grandmother's house,
we slept under the quilts that she made.
It was their way to be creative,
but also they were doing something functional.
Making sure the family was kept warm.
The story of my quilt is about adoption,
because that's a common theme in my family.
It tells the story of when I was adopted
back in the day.
It depicts that,
and then talks about how faith
has been a part of our lives,
then goes to my family now with my adoptive daughter.
The fact that my mother is a quilter played into it a lot,
and I knew that she would be able to hand-quilt it for me
once I pieced it together.
And I knew that I wanted my daughter to have
something passed down to her.
And so, I decided that would be a wonderful gift to her.
A legacy gift for Solana Marie Woodland.
Designed and handcrafted by Cynthia Marie Woodland,
Solana's mom.
Hand-quilted with love
by Doris Marie Adams, Cynthia's mom.
January 2015.
The history that we have as African Americans with quilting.
And the messages that were sent with quilts, you know.
My mother quilts, my grandmother, my great-grandmother.
It's something that's in the family.
And I do feel like it's another way to tell a story.
It's a colorful, visual way to tell a story.
- My husband is-- was born in Colombia,
is native Colombian.
So his family still lives there.
So we travel there frequently--
several times a year.
I, I get very interested in the culture there
and take a lot of images
and in my quilts then
are just sort of an expression of those cultures.
"You Can Always Tell a Gentleman by His Shoes"
was inspired by a photo that I took of...
I had just turned a corner,
and I happen to see a man across the street
with his foot up on a barrel reading some papers
and he was very distinguished looking.
Had this really cool hat on and I quickly snapped a photo.
I don't always know what's going to be a quilt
until I get home and look at things and...
But that one was a very striking image for me.
And I actually started making the image
by creating his shoes first
and that's kind of how the name came about.
I get so much satisfaction quilting.
It, it gives just me a lot of pleasure
to represent these images in fabric
and reinterpret them a little bit.
I actually feel like the quilts are a better,
evoke a better emotion and feeling about that image
than the original photograph did.
- I started in my twenties and thirties, I think in the '70s,
when the great quilt revolution occurred in this country.
And I was drawn to it, but not head-over-heels.
It wasn't until I became a machine quilter--
and could actually put the kind of quilting on my designs
that I made on the quilt top
to make it the way that I wanted it to look--
that I was happy.
And then, I was hooked by quilting.
I'm known for the color, I'm known for piecing, and...
but more importantly, probably, for the machine quilting
that I lavish on my quilts
to take them from ordinary to special.
So I take an everyday design
and I elevate it
to something that is sort of 'Sunday Best' with the quilting.
You take your life and you put it into your quilt.
Your experiences, your preferences, your colors,
everything that so far has been in your life,
you can put in your quilt.
Quilters, in general, tend to use occasions for quilting.
I used it as a way to just keep myself busy
and work, through color and design,
through a very bad time in the country's history
and that was 9/11.
The name of the quilt is
"Through a Glass Darkly: An American Memory."
And it refers to looking at things that happened in life
through a dark perspective
and yet, there is light coming through.
I had made probably five or six blocks,
and there were just going from okay
right downhill into just dull, dull, dull.
You would walk by and say, "Was that a quilt or a shadow?"
You know, there was just nothing there.
And I thought, "Okay, it's flat, it's dull, it's terrible."
And I took a break
and came back up
and there was my cat, Fluffy.
And she was a pastel tortoise shell
with about 50 different shades of neutral.
And I said, "Oh, I need 50 different shades of each color."
And then, it started working.
It's-- The colors that I bought
made the dull colors look better,
and the dull colors that I started with
made the bright ones just sing,
almost like light through a stained glass window.
And that's how I look at this quilt.
I think a quilt
should reflect your heart and soul,
art, beauty,
something that you want to communicate.
Something that when a viewer looks at it,
feels, and gets it, and says, "Oh."
There is nothing better than to have someone look at it
and say exactly what you were thinking when you made it.
It's art under the needle.
You are creating something that's in your head.
The needle is the way to express it
and it comes out and people see it as art.
- Using basic needle, thread, and fabric,
Wisconsin quilters create their treasures.
Combining tradition, inspiration, and innovation,
the art of quilting captures, preserves, and shares memories.
Thank you for being with us
>> HI, I'M JON MISKOWSKI,
DIRECTOR OF WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION AND HERE WITH NANCY
ZIEMAN WATCHING "TREASURED
QUILTS OF WISCONSIN."
WE WANT TO CONGRATULATE
MARY POKORNEY-DONELAN,
BEN WHITE, AND LORI GORMAN AND
ALL THESE QUILTERS WHO SHARED
THEIR STORIES TO MAKE THIS
WONDERFUL PROGRAM.
WHEN YOU CALL RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE
A CHANCE FOR YOU TO CONTRIBUTE
TO PUBLIC TELEVISION, WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION AND RECEIVE
THE DVD WITH A GIFT
OF $7 A MONTH.
OR WE HAVE THE COLLECTION
OF THESE WONDERFUL--
"THE ART OF QUILTING" AND
"AMERICAN QUILTS" TOGETHER WITH
A DONATION OF $15 A MONTH.
IT'S REALLY SATISFYING TO SEE IT
COME TOGETHER SO BEAUTIFULLY.
>> IT TRULY IS.
QUILTING SOMETIMES IS A SOLITARY
ART BUT REALLY, WHEN YOU SAW THE
FRIENDS WHO WORKED TOGETHER,
YOU KNOW THAT IT ISN'T.
IT CAN BE.
I HAVE A QUILTING BUDDY, NATALIE
SEWALL, AND WE WORK TOGETHER
A COUPLE OF TIMES A YEAR
AND IT'S JUST KIND OF
BRINGS IT ALL TOGETHER.
IT'S JUST A GRATIFYING WAY OF
WORKING.
>> I'M SURE THERE ARE QUILTERS
TOGETHER RIGHT NOW WATCHING OUR
PROGRAM.
QUILTERS DON'T OFTEN
WATCH TELEVISION.
>> THEY LISTEN.
>> LISTEN TO TELEVISION. YEP.
>> THERE'S LOTS OF GREAT STORIES
HERE BUT THIS IS ONE THAT YOU
HAVE TO WATCH.
GIVE US A CALL AT
1-800-236-3636.
>> YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT I FOUND INTERESTING ABOUT
WHEN WATCHING "TREASURED QUILTS
OF WISCONSIN" IS THAT FOR EVERY
QUILTER THAT'S OUT THERE,
THERE'S A DIFFERENT STORY.
MAYBE IT'S WHERE THEIR
INSPIRATION CAME FROM.
MAYBE IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT
TAUGHT THEM HOW TO QUILT.
MAYBE IT'S -- I REMEMBER THE
STORY OF THE WOMAN THAT HAD
NEVER QUILTED BEFORE BUT ONE OF
HER AUNTS OPENED UP THE FAMILY
SEWING BOX AND THERE WAS A QUILT
TOP AND THAT GOT HER STARTED.
EACH ONE IS SO UNIQUE
AND EACH IS SO DIFFERENT.
IF YOU'RE A QUILTER AT HOME,
YOU'VE HAD THAT SAME EXPERIENCE.
YOU CAN ENJOY HEARING THESE
STORIES AND SEEING IT AND TAKING
ANOTHER LOOK OF THESE QUILTS
BY BECOMING A MEMBER OF
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION.
IF YOU CALL WITH
A $7 A MONTH ONGOING GIFT,
WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF
"TREASURED QUILTS OF WISCONSIN"
THAT DVD THAT INCLUDES
30 MINUTES OF BONUS MATERIAL.
WE HAVE A FABULOUS PACKAGE IF
YOU JOIN US THE $15 A MONTH
LEVEL, GIFT OF ONGOING SUPPORT,
WE'LL SEND YOU NOT ONLY
"TREASURED QUILTS OF WISCONSIN"
BUT TWO OTHER QUILTING PROGRAMS
"AMERICA QUILTS", "THE ART
OF QUILTING" PLUS SEND YOU
A WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION
TOTE BAG.
WE HAVE MANY WAYS TO SAY THANK
YOU BUT IT STARTS BY YOU GOING
TO THE PHONE AT 1-800-236-3636.
>> NANCY, WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE
A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE A QUILT
SOMEWHERE THAT THEY'VE STARTED.
>> OR THEIR GRANDMOTHER STARTED.
>> OR THEY HAVE AN IDEA.
SO, HOW DO YOU GET STARTED?
>> FIND A FRIEND.
OR TAKE A CLASS.
I MEAN, THOSE ARE THE TWO --
DON'T GO IT ALONE.
YOU COULD BUT, YOU KNOW, HAVE A
BUDDY TO HELP YOU ALONG AND
ESPECIALLY IF YOU TAKE A CLASS
TO GET SOME OF THE MECHANICALS
DOWN AND THEN YOU CAN GO ON
ON YOUR OWN.
HOWEVER YOU'D LIKE TO WORK
WITH IT.
SO EITHER GO TO YOUR LOCAL
FABRIC STORE, GO TO YOUR LOCAL
COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
FIND A BUDDY.
>> AND FOLKS SHOULDN'T BE
INTIMIDATED, ALL THESE PEOPLE WE
SAW WHO ARE SOME OF THE MOST
AMAZING QUILTERS.
>> IT'S ONLY FABRIC.
THAT'S WHAT WE SAY
IN OUR OFFICE.
IT'S ONLY FABRIC.
>> AND THEY ALL STARTED
SOMEWHERE WITH STUFF THAT
WAS NOT--
>> DIDN'T LOOK GOOD.
>> THAT'S WHERE THEY STARTED.
WE HAVE THIS WONDERFUL TRADITION
OF INSPIRING YOU WITH THESE HOW
TO PROGRAMS TO GET STARTED.
WE HOPE YOU GET STARTED WITH
SUPPORTING PUBLIC TELEVISION
WITH YOUR PHONE CALL RIGHT NOW.
>> WE'VE HAD A FABULOUS START TO
PEOPLE JOINING US HERE AT
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION AND
THOSE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN ABLE
TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR THANK
YOU GIFTS.
IF YOU CALL WITH A GIFT OF $7 A
MONTH, WE'LL SEND YOU A COPY OF
"TREASURED QUILTS OF WISCONSIN"
THE PROGRAM THAT
WE JUST WATCHED.
THAT INCLUDES THE
30 MINUTES OF BONUS MATERIAL,
OR YOU CAN CALL AND JOIN US AT
THE $15 A MONTH ONGOING GIFT
LEVEL AND WE WILL SEND YOU THIS
PACKAGE THAT INCLUDES NOT ONLY
"TREASURED QUILTS OF WISCONSIN"
BUT ALSO "AMERICA QUILTS"
PLUS "THE ART OF QUILTING" AND
A WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION
TOTE BAG.
YOU'LL NEED IT TO CARRY
THE DVDs WITH YOU.
THOSE ARE YOURS WHEN YOU CALL US
AND IT STARTS WITH CALLING
THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN.
1-800-236-3636.
>> YES, AND SUSTAINING MEMBERS
GET A LITTLE LESS MAIL FROM
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION AND
YOUR PROGRAM GUIDE COMES EVERY
MONTH WITHOUT FAIL.
SO THERE'S -- AND MORE OF YOUR
DOLLARS GO TOWARDS PROGRAMMING
SO BECOMING A SUSTAINER IS A
REALLY GREAT WAY TO SUPPORT
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION JUST
LIKE YOU DO IT AT OUR HOUSE.
IT'S DAY AFTER DAY, NIGHT AFTER
NIGHT WITH THE GREAT VARIETY
OF HISTORY AND CULTURE AND
GREAT DRAMA ON WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION AND ESPECIALLY PROUD
OF THE WORK THAT WE DO
IN WISCONSIN.
THIS PROGRAM REALLY CAPTURES
QUILTERS ACROSS THE STATE WHO
ARE DOING FANTASTIC, WONDERFUL,
INSPIRING WORK.
I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO
CALLED TODAY SAW QUILTERS FROM
THEIR PART OF WISCONSIN AND I
THINK THAT'S WHAT IS A REALLY
IMPORTANT THING FOR US AT
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION IS
THAT WHEN YOU TUNE TO WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION, YOU SEE
PEOPLE FROM YOUR HOME STATE.
FROM YOUR COUNTY,
FROM YOUR AREA.
THAT WE REALLY WORK HARD TO
EXPLORE THE STATE AND SHARE ITS
STORIES THROUGH PROJECTS LIKE
"WISCONSIN LIFE" WHICH JUST
TELLS STORIES OF INTERESTING
CHARACTERS ACROSS THE STATE.
WITH AROUND THE FARM TABLE AND
AROUND THE CORNER WITH JOHN THAT
EXPLORES WONDERFUL, GOOD STORIES
ABOUT WONDERFUL COMMUNITIES
ACROSS WISCONSIN.
THAT'S WHAT WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION IS ABOUT.
AND IT'S POSSIBLE BECAUSE WE
SUPPORT IT, BECAUSE WE MAKE OUR
CONTRIBUTION SO I WANT TO THANK
YOU FOR CONTRIBUTING TO
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION AND
I WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT A GREAT
NIGHT WE'VE HAD CELEBRATING
WISCONSIN QUILTS AND TAKING
THESE PHONE CALLS AND THESE
PLEDGES OF COMMITMENT TONIGHT.
IT'S BEEN REALLY WONDERFUL.
>> WELL, ANOTHER WAY THAT WE CAN
SAY THANK YOU TO YOU WHEN YOU
JOIN US AS A MEMBER OF WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION IS BY SOME
THANK YOU GIFTS THAT WE CAN SEND
TO YOU AND LET ME RUN THROUGH
THOSE BRIEFLY FOR YOU.
IF YOU CALL WITH A GIFT OF $7 A
MONTH, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY
OF "TREASURED QUILTS
OF WISCONSIN."
THAT'S THE FOOTAGE THAT WE JUST
WATCHED AND INCLUDES 30 MINUTES
OF BONUS MATERIAL AND TAKE
ANOTHER LOOK AT THOSE QUILTS AND
HEAR THE INSPIRATION.
THAT'S ALL THERE ON THAT DVD.
IF YOU CALL WITH A GIFT OF
$15 A MONTH, ONGOING GIFT
OF $15 A MONTH, WE WILL SEND YOU
A PACKAGE THAT I JUST LOVE.
INCLUDES A DVD OF NOT ONLY
"TREASURED QUILTS OF WISCONSIN"
BUT ALSO TWO OTHER WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION-PRODUCED
QUILT DOCUMENTARIES
INCLUDING "AMERICA QUILTS"
AND "THE ART OF QUILTING"
AND INCLUDED WITH THAT
WILL BE A WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION TOTE BAG.
I LOVE THIS LEVEL BECAUSE
WHETHER YOU'RE VERY EXPERIENCED
QUILTER OR MAYBE YOU KNOW
SOMEBODY THAT'S JUST STARTING
OUT OR JUST GETTING A GOOD START
WHAT A GREAT WAY TO REALLY SEE
SOME OF THE WIDE, WIDE VARIETY
AND THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF
QUILTS AND THE DIFFERENT STYLES
AND THE DIFFERENT INSPIRATIONS
THAT'S ALL HERE AT THE PACKAGE.
WHATEVER LEVEL YOU DECIDE TO
JOIN US, IT ALL STARTS BY
DIALING 1-800-236-3636.
>> THANK YOU, KERMAN.
IF YOU EVER GET INTO A QUILTING
SLUMP, THIS IS A GREAT REFERENCE
MATERIAL BECAUSE YOU CAN PULL IT
FROM YOUR SHELF, WATCH IT,
AND SAY, "OH, YEAH, I'M GOING TO
TRY THAT TYPE OF QUILTING."
SO THAT MIGHT BE ONE REASON
FOR GETTING THIS
AND PUTTING IT IN YOUR LIBRARY.
OR, PERHAPS WITH YOUR THANK YOU
GIFT, YOU CAN GIVE IT AWAY
AS A GIFT, GIVE IT TO SOMEONE
ON YOUR GIFT LIST FOR CHRISTMAS,
BIRTHDAY, WHATEVER
SPECIAL OCCASION, TO THANK
THEM FOR BEING A GOOD FRIEND.
THERE ARE MANY WAYS THAT YOU CAN
USE SOME OF THE DVDs THAT
WE'RE OFFERING AS THANK YOU
GIFTS TO GIVE US ENCOURAGEMENT.
WHEN YOU GET IN THAT TIME WHICH
I DO GET IN, YOU'RE SLUMPED DOWN
AND THINKING WHAT AM I GOING TO
DO WITH THIS?
HOW AM I GOING TO
MAKE THIS BETTER?
YOU CAN WATCH HOW THE EXPERTS
AROUND THE STATE HAVE DONE THEIR
QUILTING AND HOW THEY'VE GOTTEN
OUT OF SOME OF THE SLUMPS.
SO PERHAPS YOU'LL THINK OF THAT.
GIVE IT A TRY.
>> IF YOU WANT TO CONTRIBUTE
WITH A GIFT OF $15 A MONTH,
WE HAVE "AMERICAN QUILT" THAT
IS A NATIONAL PROGRAM PRODUCED
HERE IN WISCONSIN BY WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION THAT REALLY
EXPLORES THOSE ROOTS AND
TRADITIONS OF AMERICA QUILTING
AND A CHANCE TO SEE SOME OF THE
COUNTRY'S MOST RENOWNED QUILTERS
AND THE SAME IS TRUE OF
"THE ART OF QUILTING"
THAT EXPLORES THE
ART QUILTING MOVEMENT AND WORK
OVER TIME AND SOME OF THE GREAT
STUNNING QUILTS, AMERICAN QUILTS
AND SOME OF THE ARTISTS WHO
TALK ABOUT THEIR INSPIRATION.
I THINK WHAT'S REALLY AMAZING
FOR ME IS HOW MANY DIFFERENT
AMAZING WAYS THAT QUILTERS
TAKE AN APPROACH ON THIS.
I HOPE WHEN YOU WATCH THIS, YOUR
QUILTER REALLY INSPIRES YOU TO
BLAZE YOUR TRAIL AND THAT YOU'RE
ALSO BLAZING YOUR TRAIL TO THE
PHONE AND CALL 1-800-236-3636.
WITH YOUR PLEDGE OF SUPPORT.
>> WELL, WHEN YOU DO BLAZE YOUR
TRAIL TO THE PHONE, AND BECOME A
MEMBER OF WISCONSIN PUBLIC
TELEVISION, DON'T FORGET THAT
AT THAT ONGOING GIFT OF
$7 A MONTH, WE'LL SEND YOU A
COPY OF "TREASURED QUILTS OF
WISCONSIN" AND ALSO HAVE THE
PACKAGE THAT JON WAS MENTIONED
AT $15 A MONTH.
ONGOING GIFT OF $15 THAT
INCLUDES NOT ONLY "TREASURED
QUILTS" BUT ALSO "AMERICA
QUILTS" AND "THE ART OF
QUILTING" AND FABULOUS WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION TOTE BAG.
YOU CAN SEE THE GIFTS OR SHOW
YOUR SUPPORT FOR WISCONSIN
PUBLIC TELEVISION ONLINE, IF
IT'S SOMETHING YOU'D LIKE TO DO.
IT'S VERY EASY TO DO.
GO TO OUR SECURE WEBSITE,
WPT.ORG, LOOK FOR THE DONATE
BUTTON AND CLICK ON THAT.
YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT
LEVELS, SEE THE DIFFERENT ITEMS
THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE AND THEN
YOU CAN SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR
PUBLIC TELEVISION THAT WAY
AS WELL.
AND GO BACK TO ALL OF THE
PROGRAMMING KNOWING THAT YOU'VE
DONE YOUR PART TO HELP CONTINUE
TO BRING WONDERFUL SHOWS LIKE
"TREASURED QUILTS OF WISCONSIN."
NOT ONLY TO YOURSELF BUT TO YOUR
KIDS, YOUR GRANDKIDS AND TO
PEOPLE ALL ACROSS THE STATE.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S
IMPORTANT TO US HERE
AT WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION.
BUT WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO BE
ABLE TO DO THAT.
SO DIAL 1-800-236-3636.
>> YOU COULD BE THE LAST
COUPLE OF PEOPLE TO CALL US AT
1-800-236-3636.
WE'VE HAD A WONDERFUL NIGHT
OF CELEBRATING QUILTERS
IN WISCONSIN.
>> WE HAVE.
>> WITH THEIR WONDERFUL QUILTS
AND WONDERFUL STORIES BECAUSE OF
YOUR SUPPORT.
>> SO A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE MADE
THIS HAPPEN.
WE HAVE DIRECTORS.
WE HAVE QUILTERS.
WE HAVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES PEOPLE
AND WE HAVE YOU, OUR VIEWERS
FOR WATCHING.
THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
AND AS I LIKE TO SAY,
THANKS FOR JOINING US.
BYE FOR NOW.
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Quintessential Quilts
and Friends of
Wisconsin Public Television.