Hello, I'm Deanna Springer live at the Great Wisconsin Quilt
Show with insights to this year's event, and I am joined
by Lina Owen and Laura Duran. Welcome.
>> Thank you so much. >> You're welcome. And we are
standing in the brunet booth. >> Yes, we are.
>> Sewing machine booth. >> Yes we are.
>> And I know you are teachers Quilt Show.
>> And now, beginning today, you are published authors.
>> I know, we are so. >> Congratulations.
>> Thank you so much. We're just. We're just over the moon.
>> Tell us about your new book. >> Okay, so not only is a first
book, but is the first in the industry, right? It's the first
bilingual. Learn to guide, learn, learn to quilt guide.
And it's in both English and Spanish. And we just it's we're
just so excited. We can't believe that our idea and our
goal to bring our Hispanic community to this world of
quilting is actually coming to fruition right now.
>> There's such a need for it, and you're filling that gap and
we're so happy for you. The book includes techniques and is
also projects. >> Yes. So it has four
different projects, includes four different projects, and it
walks you through how to make the basic blocks in quilting
like nine patch for patch, half square triangles and flying
geese and hourglass blocks. But beyond that, I'm going to tell
Laura to like, say, what's the secret about this book and what
makes it so special? So we go into depth on.
>> We put in a lot of our creativity of how we tie Latin
culture into quilting with our designs, how dyeing fabric was
very important, and how we got color into the book or into our
fabrics. So we did a little bit of a history where we tie the
quilting world with Latin America textiles. I love the
designs. >> The culture.
>> The community, the outreach,
the education. I'm so happy for you. You're also teachers here
at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show this week.
>> Yes we are. So we're teaching all days. Today we
taught the first class in the morning. The quilt. And we also
teaching the same class in Spanish. We also teaching a
class on how to how to work with zippers through a zipper
pouch. And that one is also bilingual. And another thing
that we are so excited is that we're teaching kids for the
first. >> Time, kids for the first
time ever. So you can have it over to quilt Show.com to learn
more about all the educational offerings, including all of the
classes that you're offering and everything else. The Great
Wisconsin Quilt Show the central quilt exhibits, head
over to quilt Show.com. [MUSIC]
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