One. Hello, I'm Deanna Springer and I'm Dana Casey, and we're
live at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show with insights into
this year's event. We are standing at the Black and white
plus one quilt challenge. Yes. So each year, annually at the
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show, we announce a challenge for next
year. So last year, this time we announced the challenge was
black and white plus one. Yes And what does that mean? That
means that you will your fabric, your quilt will contain black,
white, and one color of fabric. Right. So black fabric, white
fabric plus one other color that you could choose. You could
choose which color you wanted to add to your quilt. And we have
quite a variety within the exhibit. I know that each quilt
must be 30in wide by 40in long, and they travel for two years.
They do. They go to hit the road to other shows, and I'm seeing a
lot of red and white. Red was black and white, red, black and
white. And the turquoise, the red. Excuse me? The black, white
and turquoise really pop off the yellow ones are jumping off as
well. Right. So a lot of pictorial quilts. Yeah.
Beautiful pictorial quilts. Patchwork quilts, traditional
pieced the art quilts. Absolutely gorgeous pop of red
lipstick on the corner quilt is amazing. Yes. And the black and
white Frosty the Snowman with the orange scarf is terrific.
It's really original designs. There's a lot of traditional, a
lot of modern. I see a triangle quilt on the lower level. I
thought that that was not. It didn't have a background because
the back drape is black, so it just disappears into the
background and it looks like it's hovering. It's floating in
air, partially pieced, blue with white and black green stitching.
Yeah. Scenes different scenes. You pointed out the quilt
before. We're setting up today, so we do not have all the quilt
ID tags up yet. The you know, it takes 500 volunteer positions to
do this. So we appreciate the volunteers hanging all the
quilts, and they're amazing to see. And when the Great
Wisconsin Quilt Show opens, people are going to enjoy this
exhibit. Yes. And you put this exhibit together each year,
Dana, you coordinate the special quilt exhibit, and you have an
announcement to make for 2025. We do. But first, I just
breaking news. You know, that this is the most popular exhibit
we've had in our history. We should talk about that. Yes we
did black and white plus one one other year, 2016. Right. It's
your first year, right? Yes. My first year of sending back. Yes.
Quilts back. But it's our 20th year at the Great Wisconsin
Quilt Show. So part of the 20th year celebration. And there are
this week for the 20th year of the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show,
one of the things was to bring back the most popular quilt
challenge. And I don't know if you look back to see how many
quilts, how many quilts do we have? So in 2016, there were 63
quilts. Okay, this year breaking news. We have 70 quilts, 70
black and white plus ones. Great job quilters 19 different
states. So that was exciting. It's fabulous. And another
breaking news that we can break live on the World wide Web is
next year's Quilt Challenge. So the next year's quilt challenge
will be Hexagon Quilt hexagon Quilts. And you can pick up that
entry form here at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show when the
show opens on Thursday, and also in the central quilt exhibit,
the ten category Jury and Judge contest forms will be available.
So that's the first that people will be able to learn that. And
you learned here first for tuning in with us. Oh, it was
great. Dana thank you so much for joining me and for hanging
all the exhibits. I know you have more exhibits that are
going up today. Lots of special exhibits, lots of special
exhibits for the 20th anniversary. I think we have
over 12 special quilt exhibits and 70 quilts in black and
white, plus one. Yes. Great job! Well, to learn more about this
year's event and next year's event, head over to Quilt
Show.com.