Hello. I'm Deanna Springer live at the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show. I am standing inside the special exhibit. The Nancy
Zieman Landscape Quilt Exhibit for our 20th anniversary of the
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show. We brought all of Nancy's quilts
from the Zieman family's private collection to the Great
Wisconsin Quilt Show. You will see, like behind me framed
quilts. Nancy's favorite, her favorite. She put under glass
frames and there's two behind me, and there are probably six
more beyond that. And as we look around the exhibit, you'll see
many of the quilts hanging on the walls. All of the quilts
hanging on the walls are not framed. The first one is called
Prairie. It's a beautiful prairie scene, and it's a unique
quilt. There's only one that looks like that in Nancy's
collection. As we move to the next quilt, that's Mount
Rainier. Mount Rainier on a clear day is actually what Nancy
titled that quilt. Each year we would travel together to the
Sewing and Stitchery Expo in Puyallup, Washington, and she
went for many years before she saw Mount Rainier. So there it
was. It peeked out one day, and so she grabbed a picture. Nancy
always took a photograph and then she would look at her
photograph and then cut bits of fabric, starting with the
background fabric and working forward. So you get to take a
really close look at each one of Nancy's landscape quilts. In
every piece of fabric you can see it and all of the stitching.
There's another mountain scene next to Mount Rainier from her
quilts. We have machine wall travel, out to national parks
with her family before her kids were, you know, grown and out of
the home. So that's a beautiful mountain scene. There are not
very many mountain scenes, so you will see them all here. The
next one is flowers on a fence. And that's where Nancy really
found her love. She loved her end.
flower garden. She loved taking pictures of her flower gardens
and then making them into landscape quilts again. You can
see that gray mottled background quilts.
she always started with a hand-dyed fabric for the
background, and she learned this technique from her good friend
Natalie Sewell. So Natalie Sewell taught Nancy how to make
landscape quilts in 1999, and that's the last year Nancy ever
made a pair of black slacks. She could buy those now at
Jcpenney's, and she didn't have to take time to sew black slacks
so she could make time in her busy schedule to make these
quilts. She moving on to the next one is a fall. Fall leaves
scene. There are a couple fall leaf scenes, as I was saying,
she was very busy with her sewing with Nancy television
show running a company teaching Sunday school so she would get
up early mornings and do ten, 20, 30 minutes of sewing on her
quilts. You'll see several fall scenes, landscape quilts here,
and then here's a special one on the end as we take a close look
up. That's Nancy's family farm. I myself don't see that one very
often because it's in the Zeeman family private collection. So
you will get to see that here at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show
as a celebration for coming to every year for 20 years. It's
our 20th year here in Madison. You'll see 24 of these exquisite
quilts, and the one right at the entrance that you won't see on
camera today, but you will see here, live in person is Tiffany
Mountains, Nancy's very first landscape quilt she ever made in
1999 is called Tiffany Mountains. And that hangs at our
store in Beaver Dam, the Nancy Zieman Sewing Studio in the
Nancy Zieman History exhibit. So we brought that one here to the
show so you can see all of Nancy's quilts together in one
collection. For the 20th anniversary of the Great
Wisconsin Quilt Show to learn more about this year's event and
next year's event, head over to Quilt show.com.
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