Hello, I'm Deanna Springer live at the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show, and I'm joined by Karla Overland. Hello! Welcome Karla.
We are standing by a beautiful booth here. Yes we are, it is
vendor setup day. It's Wednesday so we are inviting all the
vendors in today to set up. And you have a beautiful booth and
tell us what's in your booth. Well, pretty much every color
under the sun. I have 200 colors. This is all hand dyed,
100% cotton. And you're the colorist. Yes, yes. I come up
with all the color formulas. We dye all the fabric in Brainerd,
Minnesota. We have a studio there with about ten people, and
we die a little every day. Oh my goodness. And, so 200 colors and
they come in different size cuts. So we have pre-cuts here
at the show. >> We put together bundles,
collections of eight colors that work beautifully together, or 12
colors or four so that you can just pick up a bundle and find a
pattern and you're ready to go. So we try to make things really
easy to create. wall are quilts that you've
designed and the patterns are available in your booth as well
as the fabrics and some kits too. Yeah. So everything's
together. If someone wants to make one of your beautiful
quilts. the kits because we can. If you
don't like greens, we'll find you a blue kit and we can easily
put together a custom seek Karla the colorist.
the quilts in your booth right now, I love the Zinnia quilt.
Yes. It's beautiful. It's a table runner. It's appliqué.
Yep. But you also have some traditional, traditionally
traditionally pieced quilts. >> I have some laser cut
appliqué. I have some paper piece products, projects, kind
of something for everybody. But we try to keep things simple
because the color does the work for us, so we don't have to
worry about complex patterns are beautiful.
patterns. Great design work. You talked about 200 colors. Do you
ever discontinue colors and then add colors? Yes. We do,
>> we since 2020 I've had the 200 colors. So maybe in a year
or two we will come up with some replacement colors and
discontinue some colors. But we try to keep nice rounded
collection of colors. >> Great. Well, you also talked
about the fabrics in your booth, your precuts, so you have step
precuts that have different colors. Let's talk about that.
>> Yes. So we have an eight step fat quarter bundle, eight steps
means it takes me eight steps to get from green to blue, and I
break it down by formula in quarter bundles, half yard
bundles or full yard bundles, enough to make a table runner.
>> A wall hanging or a large quilt. Nice, right?
>> So each October, October 1st, you launch a special quilt
challenge. challenge.
Cherrywood challenge. And that's announcing on October 1st. Yes,
we're very excited because it will be our 10th anniversary of
the congratulations. >> Yes, the 20th annual Great
Wisconsin Quilt Show in ten years of Cherrywood challenge.
>> I think we may have had them all. I'm not sure.
>> I think you have. Yeah. >> So as Zach Pans over, you
talked about the step fabrics, the different bundles. What
bundle was used for this year's challenge. So this year's
challenge is monarch right. >> So I came up with a special
bundle of fabrics just for the monarch challenge. And it was
eight colors, there was two greens, three oranges. And then
black and white so that we could, symbolize all the
different colors on the monarch. And everybody had to use that
same exact bundle of fabrics, and they all had to be 24 by 24,
20, 20. Yep. They're just little 20 20in.
than that 20 by 20in square. >> Yep. And they don't need any
technique. The only thing they couldn't do is add other colors
of fabric. So there's eight colors they could use paint.
They could use stenciling. They could use fabric.
>> Yeah. embellishments.
you're sharing with us this year at the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show is the caterpillar collection.
collections do you have? >> We have three collections. We
had 225 quilts that are traveling, so we divided them
into three collections. This is just one of them, and the other
two have their own travel schedules, for about a year.
>> We can find that schedule on your website. What is your
website? >> And you can see travel the
world and find all of the different collections.
>> Yes. And these people, the people who enter are from all
over the world. We have people from Japan, Europe, we had 465
entries this year in all across the United States. Across the
United States. Yes. >> Really? Congratulations. It's
beautiful every time it goes up. But the exhibit went up right in
front of my eyes today, and it's just a beautiful collection of
quilts that showcase your beautiful Cherrywood hand-dyed
>> And it really elevates what people can do with fabric. This
is art. This isn't it really is. Yeah, there are quilts in a
gallery. It is. gallery here at the Great
Wisconsin Quilt Show and come and see the Great Wisconsin
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