Hello, I'm Deanna Springer live at the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show with insights to this
year's event. Today I'm joined by Anne Wanke. Welcome Anne.
Thank you. Anne is a quilter, an author, a teacher, everything to
do with quilts. It's in your wheelhouse.
everything and you've joined us for almost all 20 years of the
great Wisconsin. >> Perhaps all 20 years.
>> I didn't last year. Last year was the only year.
>> Yes, your husband had some health issues, so he died? Yeah.
And he passed away. So our sympathies. Yes. And I'm so glad
that you reached out to me a couple of months ago and said,
hey, Deanna, I have an idea for the 20th anniversary of the
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show. Let's do an evening event. Yes.
So you shared share your ideas with.
fun! I have so much fun getting ready for it. Just remembering
back to some of those early years and how much fun it was.
And what a tribute to education for all of us.
>> And you know, it was founded by our mutual friend Nancy
Zieman, and it was a fundraising idea that she took to PBS
Wisconsin and say she had this great idea. And look, 20 years
later, here we are and we're going strong. There'll be
another 20 and another 20 after that, but we're going to be
celebrating tomorrow night. Thursday night, you and I are
doing the evening event to celebrate the Great Wisconsin
Quilt Show, and I've gone through the archives. I've
pulled a bunch of photos, photos from across the years, and we
got together in Beaver Dam at a cafe in downtown Beaver Dam last
week, two weeks ago, and we had coffee. Usually every year after
quilt show we'd get together and talk about how the year went and
how the show went and what we can do next year together. So
we're always. Exactly. We're always thinking about the next
are. And you're bringing your quilts tomorrow night?
>> I am, I probably brought more than I can ever talk fast enough
to show everyone, but that's okay. We like to see quilts and
you taught all kinds of quilting techniques over the years, and
you're bringing a quilt from each one of those classes.
Pretty much. >> Yes. And we'll talk about how
we each met Nancy for the first time and how she influenced us
and what she did for the quilt world in general.
>> And she was a trailblazer for blazer, so dedicated to
education, a renegade in some ways.
celebrate our friend Nancy and all her quilting friends
tomorrow night at 6 p.m. you can purchase tickets and find out
more information online at Quilt Show dot com, and come and join
us for 90 minutes. >> It's going to be great.
>> It's going to fly by. It's going by really fast. It's like
our little interview here. >> We might have to keep them
after school right. >> And there is cake and there's
cake. It's the first evening event at the Great Wisconsin
Quilt Show where we're serving cake. So we'll have cake and not
a layer cake, not a fabric layer cake.
>> Real cake from a bakery with sugar.
>> No calories right? No >> Sugar doesn't count. Sugar
doesn't count. >> Tomorrow night? No, not at
all. Well, I look forward to seeing all the quilts that
you're bringing. the quilts that you brought last
week when we did our little coffee club.
will you pull around and I'll help you unload the car behind
Mendota for. have a lot of fun tomorrow
night. >> It's going to be great. Yeah.
>> Thank you. Anne. >> Oh, you're welcome.
>> To learn more about this year's event and to learn about
the evening event tomorrow night, celebrating the Great
Wisconsin Quilt Show. 20 years of the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show. Join Anne and me and learn more over quilt show.com.