Hello, I'm Deanna Springer live at the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show with insights to this year's event and I am joined by
[MUSIC] Mary Alice Van Gemert. Welcome
Mary Alice. Hello Deanna. How are you? Good to see you again.
Nice to see you. It's set up day. It is my favorite day of
the year. It's vendor ingress day and you are the vendor
registrar. I am, yeah. So tell us what you do. You and I both
today. work on this all year long at
Nancy Zieman Productions. We work on the quilts and the
teachers and the education. Yes. And you work with the vendors?
I do, I work for PBS Wisconsin, and we do the vendor mall, and
I'm the vendor registrar getting all the vendors in
place, getting their booth preferences, any questions or
concerns they have. Then we get it all lined up. Not everyone
has the same size booth or the same layout of booths, so you
can have a ten foot booth up to what, a 40 foot booth? Exactly.
They just register some quilt show.com. Exactly. They go
online, fill out the form, and then from there we get their
booth placement and preferences. You do a fantastic job. The
show is looking amazing. I know it's set up day. We're seeing
some setup happening behind us. We are. We have a new vendor.
We have 33 new vendors this year and this is Quilt Passions.
different way. Who's busy setting up getting
ready to welcome all of you to the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show,
a new vendor from Hawaii. Hawaii. We have a Hawaiian
vendor that's so exciting! Where else do we have vendors
coming in from? From France, from Spain, Utah, all across
the United States? Yes. International, national. And a
lot right from here, from Wisconsin. A lot of small
businesses, people take their shop on the road and there's
all kinds of shopping. Anything you want to buy for quilting
and sewing is right here. It's right here. All in one place.
Three days only. Thursday, Friday and Saturday this
weekend. So 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and then 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Correct. Right. And all kinds
of vendors, including sewing machines, threads, fabric, tool
buttons, embellishments for your quilt, anything and
everything. Scissors, magnifiers. It's all here. So
you've been working on the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show with
me and team for seven years, and you've been with PBS
Wisconsin for 21 years, correct? Yeah. And you have an
announcement to make to the vendors today. You're retiring
this fall? I am, this is. >> Oh.
>> Congratulations. Thank you. 21 years. I've loved every
minute of it. We're going to miss you dearly. And I know
you'll stop in and see us. Yes, I will. I'll come back as a
volunteer. The vendors make do that.
this very, very special. It's going to be hard to say goodbye,
but it's time to turn the baton over to the next person, and
they'll be. Well, it's a talented team. Thank you so
much, friend. Congratulations. Yes. To learn more about this
year's event and next year's did.
event, visit quilt Show.com. [MUSIC]
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