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next year,
exhibit will be
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going toe
be right back with
more talk about quilts.
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quilts, tell a
story. This
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and the book
is part
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packages of thank
gifts that we'd
offer. When you pledge
support to
PBS Wisconsin. So
just to recap,
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>> It's
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you'll be to teach quilting. So
able to come to
quilt show. And this is just
one example. Bill will be
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quilting. We even
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for kids this
year. Oh great!
teaching kids are
how to sew and
quilt, and we
also are
teaching in Spanish. We
have
new classes in Spanish
year.
>> So what I
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>> So we're
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about the show,
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