Hello, I'm Deanna Springer live at the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show with insights to this year's event, and I am joined
by Laura Wasilowski. Hello Deanna welcome, Laura.
>> It's so great to be here. What a wonderful show. We
haven't. >> Seen you for years. I'm so
glad you're back this year. >> I'm still alive.
>> Yes. Me too. And we're live today.
>> And tell us what you're doing here at the Great
Wisconsin Quilt Show this year. >> Well, I have a special
exhibit. We're surrounded by some of my quilts here, and
this evening I'm giving a program called I stitch,
therefore I am, and it's. It's about me. It's all about me.
>> It's all about you and your quilts. You have additional
quilts that are not in the exhibit, right? But in your
your trunk show. >> Yes, I have a small trunk
show and then I have a PowerPoint presentation about
my. >> Yes, I'll be singing a song
or two. I'll try my best. Yeah. >> We look forward to it. Let's.
It's 6 p.m. tonight, so head to Quilt show.com and learn more
about it. And make sure you get here today to take it in. It's
one night only Thursday night. That's right. Let's talk about
your special quilt exhibit that's on display at the Great
Wisconsin Quilt Show all weekend long Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. >> That's right. So as you
enter, it's one of the first special exhibits you'll.
>> See right inside the door by the PBS Wisconsin booth.
>> Yeah. And I have, I think, maybe nine quilts. They kind of
range from early work to the most recent things.
>> All improvised. >> All improvised.
>> Let's look at the one on when you first enter the booth.
The two. side. Those are the most recent
ones I've made. Those are made with silk fabrics. They're all
hand embroidered. And I've dyed the silk. I've dyed the thread.
I was a dyer for a long time, so they're improvised. I fuze
the fabrics, cut out shapes and kind of glue or collage them
together. And they're both from a series called All Fly Away
and Lovely. Different things. That one's about music, one's
about the evening, and they all have birds in them. All the
ones I make in that. >> Series are so beautiful. You
talked about your hand dyeing. Hand dyeing a fabric. Hand
dyeing of fibers? Yes. That's what makes the color so
saturated. I'll step aside so we can talk about these quilts.
>> Yes. >> These are two of my favorite.
I always love your leaves and your quilts.
>> Oh, thank you so much. Actually, these are seed pods.
Seed pods? Yes, I made these I made these several years ago.
These are maybe more mid-career for me. Again, they're
hand-dyed fabrics, some cotton, some silk. This one has some
hand-dyed threads in it as well. And I made these when I was
thinking about, oh, there's some saying like one single
seed leads to a thousand trees. And I thought, what a wonderful
saying about how just one little seed can grow and, and
populate the world with all these lovely regenerate. Yeah.
Regenerate. Exactly. Beautiful. So these are called seed pods
one and seed pods two. This one is mostly hand embroidery. And
this is kind of indicates the transition from when I was
doing a lot of machine work. >> It's beautiful machine
stitching. Thank you. Motion >> That's right. Yeah I've used
both on my machine. I like making fairly simple. This is
the me me me pattern here. Me me.
>> Yeah me me me it's all about me. Some of the other stitches
were snails. Snails on fire. >> Like we saw on sewing with
Nancy. that.
>> We can still watch that episode with you. Oh, yeah. On
Nancy Zieman. Com. So check that out, everyone.
>> Yeah. Come join us there. >> Yeah. And you transitioned
from machine stitching. And now I make a lot more hand
embroidery. Freeform hand embroidery. Like what you see
over there. But I like hand embroidery. It really adds
those little details. It adds texture and pattern to the
surface of the artwork, and I really enjoy what I'm doing.
>> So it's a beautiful, beautiful quilt. All of your
quilts are beautiful. >> Thank you for joining us
here this this year, Laura. >> So happy to be here at the
great. Show.
>> We're so happy to have you back.
>> Thank you. And thank you for tuning in and to learn more
about this year's event and next year's event, head over to
quilt Show.com.