Hello, I'm Deanna Springer live at the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show with insights to this year's event, and I am joined
by Quiltmaker Ann Crowl Meyer. Welcome Anne.
>> You again. We see each other once a year at least.
>> At least. >> Yes, and we're standing in
front of your quilt. This is the the only quilt you have
hanging in the central quilt exhibit this year.
>> It is okay. Yes. >> All right. So it's quilt
number 235 and it's called Swiss Spring in. Ann's going to
tell us how she created this beauty.
photograph. My husband, his mother was born and raised in
Switzerland. So there's a lot of cousins there. And this is
actually at his cousin's house looking toward the town. And I
made it as a wedding gift for one of the sons that was
married recently, so that he'll always have a piece of his
hometown with him as he moves about the country.
>> Beautiful. Do you have to make others for the other sons?
>> No. They're not married yet. Not married yet? Only wedding.
>> Gifts, right? >> Yeah.
recognize it as a pictorial quilt that Nancy did a lot of
landscape quilts. >> Yes, and it is all raw edge
appliqué, which means that all these pieces have raw edges and
they're cut from fabric like this is a different fabric.
shadow is a separate piece of fabric.
>> Yes. And they are fuzed. I like to use light. Steam a seam
two. Okay. And and it all gets fuzed onto there before there's
any stitching done on it. And then after it's fuzed and it's
layered with the batting is when you start stitching. And
then even that brings out more dimension and texture.
>> To machine quilting. You custom.
>> It's machine. >> Free motion on your machine.
>> Yes, on my Bernina. >> Beautiful. The stitching is
beautiful. Even the swirls in the sky. It brings movement to
the sky. Thank you. Beautiful garden. Your pieces are just
spectacular. I enjoy seeing each one every time you enter.
And you've been entering quilt show for many years?
>> Yes. Many years. The one of the first times that I entered
in 2007, and I may have entered some before that, but that was
the first time I got a ribbon and it was actually Viewer's
Choice. Well, there's not a ribbon
placed on here today, so you could be up for viewer's choice.
So check out quilt number 235. >> Yeah.
>> And you can cast a vote here, you know, and cast a vote for
Viewer's Choice. You can vote for any of the quilts in the
quilt contest exhibit, as long as they don't have a ribbon. So
Viewer's Choice is always announced on Saturday so you
doing that. And and you're not only a quilt maker and a quilt
exhibitor, you're a volunteer. >> Yes, I love to volunteer
every year. I can spend all this time looking at all the
quilts. I wear my white gloves. I can look at the backs of them.
I can see, I can feel how they're made. And sometimes I
get to talk to the people that made them. Quilt makers.
Oftentimes they do stand here with mine and answer questions
about my technique and how I do things.
>> We're drawing quite a crowd. The quilts show attendees are
going to, I'm sure. After we wrap, I want to ask you some
questions about your beautiful Swiss Spring. How many quilts
have you made? >> Pictorial quilts.
>> I'd say 15 or so. >> Okay.
>> Yeah. >> Officially in 1995, when we
moved from Texas to Wisconsin, where it was cold and I had
more time. >> Hobby, I needed a winter
hobby. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Anne, and
thank you for volunteering and for joining us today on the
video. >> And thank you for tuning in
and to learn more how you can volunteer and enter the quilt
show and everything you want to know about the Great Wisconsin
Quilt Show, head over to quilt Show.com.