Hello, I'm Deanna Springer live at the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show with insights to this year's event, and I'm joined by
Jess Moss. Jess. >> Good afternoon.
>> Deanna great to have you here.
on setup day. There's so much work going on to pull off this
tremendous show. volunteers helping hang the
show? strong since 7:00 this morning.
Since the moment the quilts arrived, we've been getting
them up. >> Quilts exhibit, a special
quilt exhibits. We're standing in front of the hexagon quilt
exhibit. This is one of 15 exhibits at this year's show.
Special exhibits? >> Yeah, we have really great
special exhibits this year. We've got the hexagons, we've
got the kids. And one of my favorite things in addition to
this is the Fashion challenge. >> And the mod minis. There's
so many great things to see here.
>> Exactly. So a year ago, the challenge was put out. It was
announced right here at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show,
right at the Central Quilt exhibit. You can pick up the
information for next year's quilt Challenge. This year's
quilt challenge is the Hexagon Quilt Challenge. Each quilt
must be 30in wide and 40in long, and it must have a top, a
batting, and a backing. So I know you're a quilter. How long
have you been quilting, Jess? >> The better part of two
decades. It's been a long time thing for me.
>> Okay, so I thought we'd talk about Hexagon Quilt Challenge.
hexagon quilts. The bottom one is very traditional, what we
think of as a grandmother's flower garden or a
traditionally pieced quilt. >> And it's got real
traditional colors in scrapping the hexagons. It's scrappy.
>> It has a border, so it's very traditional, very
traditional. You look at the one up above, not so
traditional. traditional at all. It's really
modern with the asymmetrical grid, the hexagons aren't all
lined up. There's a lot of negative space, and it's
scrappy, just like the one on the bottom. But one thing I
really like is this Sashiko inspired Big Stitch
hand-quilting, and also just the variety of fibers. It looks
like the background is maybe a linen or something. It's not
not quite a quilting cotton, which makes it even more
visually interesting. And there's even some big
stitches on the of the binding. There's no border, but there's
a binding in contrasting gray gray with big stitches.
>> That really pops, especially with the X's holding down the
corners. flowers are floating, so it is
very modern, yet traditional. I like I like that you see
traditional it with the scrappy and the patchwork.
>> Yeah. >> So it's appliqué. Really?
>> Yeah. Strong modern traditionalism with the
appliqué. And looks like somebody had a great time hand
stitching. >> All those hexes together.
>> Well it's beautiful. This is quilts that were accepted into
this year's challenge exhibit. >> Yeah, and it's incredible to
see them going up with the variety of size and scale and
different interpretations of this challenge.
>> And they were juried. So all of them meet the hexagon
guidelines. >> Absolutely.
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show and see all 49 of the hexagon
quilts hanging in the special quilt exhibit, in addition to
14 other special exhibits. That's the most special
exhibits we've ever had. So we're kicking off our 21st year
of the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show with many quilt exhibits,
in addition to the central Quilt exhibit that has over 300
quilts in it. And should we do some breaking news right now?
>> I would love to hear some breaking news Deanna.
>> Breaking news. It's not usually announced until
tomorrow when the show opens the challenge. For next year,
they will need to be all 30in wide and 40in long. But we're
doing a patriotic quilt challenge.
>> Two 5250 so we're doing the patriotic patchwork challenge.
So start thinking that I know, try to get some sleep tonight.
Don't stay up all night making your new patriotic quilt.
>> Get those red, white and blue fabrics out now.
form at the center quilt exhibit right at the front
entrance. It will have some around elsewhere too. And
coming later this fall at Quilt Show. Com so thank you so much
for joining me, Jess. >> Well, thanks for having me.
>> Happy quilt hanging indeed. And to learn more about this
year's event and next year's event, head over to quilt
Show.com. .