Man Made Virtual with Scott Hansen, Mike Ellingsen & Scott Flanagan

so again my name is Megan Barrett I'm the director here at the Iowa flute museum we are located in Winterset Iowa which is just southwest of Des Moines and we have been open since 2016 we're in this beautiful storefront right on our historic town square that used to be a JCPenney building gorgeous 16-foot ceiling is a perfect place to display these wonderful textiles and we're just so thrilled with our latest exhibit man-made which was curated by Tony Jacobson Tony we give us a wave tony is a Winterset resident and he works just down the street he is the manager of piece works quilt shop and among other things is a designer and teacher and a fabulous quilter and he is on our Board of Directors here and so we're thrilled with this exhibit he's put together which features what 18 20 different artists maybe three of whom are Scott Hanson you give us a wave Scott Hanson from the Seattle area north of Seattle is that what you said yeah a little town called Sultan Sultan I like the foothill of the Cascade you look up with there's mountain this all right yes so Scott's joining us from the Pacific time zone we also have Mike Ellingson give us a little wave Mike Mike is right here in our state Decorah Iowa and then Scott Flanagan give us a wave Scott Flanagan Scott's actually in three months in abrasca which is probably as close to us as Decorah is actually from Winterset so they are three of our artists and we invited them to join this particular program because in addition to being wonderful quilters they are all designers and teachers so that is the common thread in this evening's program so just a couple of housekeeping things if you have not yet found the chat bar see if you can find that on your zoom if you click on it it will probably pop up in the right-hand parts of your screen and if you have a question that you'd like to kind of fall in you can chat either to myself or to everyone in the meeting and then I will pass that along you can also somewhere above there you may find a feature which says raise hand and if you do the raise hand button then I see a little blue hand by your name and then I know that you have something you would like to say to the group and I can unmute you when the time comes so without any further ado I'm gonna turn it over to Tony Jacobson who is our curator and I'm gonna mute myself and Tony is gonna unmute himself and tell us a little bit about himself in this exhibit Tony oh all right okay my name is Joe Jacobson and yes I'm on the board of directors here at the Iowa cold Museum and I was able to I would have the honor of putting this show together one of the things I wanted to do with this show was a lot of the men only quilt shows are specifically about more of a competition and I'm just showing great quilts and and that's about what it's about I wanted to show that men quilting has been around for quite a while and so we've got a historical aspect we've got for vintage quilts one that came from 1890 some of them from the 30s to show that men have been quilting it's just that we're more prevalent now in what we're doing and the fact that we are a little more active in the quilting world so that's what I wanted and then I wanted to break it down so that the people that I've got on exhibit are from all the different venues that men are in quilting right now so tonight we're representing the people who make a living by designing quilts and writing patterns and teaching classes some of the quilts that are in the exhibit are people who create artwork and they sell it as art other people do it just as something fun that they like to do we've got some that have definitely be like wiki team shirts definitely become celebrity about it and then we've also got quilts that are done for a cause whether it's quilts of Valor or we've got the collection of the Hope Project which are the piece cranes and that's a whole other thing that we can talk about it another time but I wanted to show the different aspects of it so tonight we're concentrating on us the designers the quilt behind me is not my quilt this wonderful quilt that you're seeing behind me is Mike ellingson's quilt but I do have one quilt in the exhibit and a little bit about me I was a graphic designer art director for 30 years prior to becoming the manager of the piece work school shop here in Winterset we're in the former farms in Porter building which that's where I spent the last 7 years of graphic design I was the art director for fauns and Porter lover quilting and that's how I met or got to know Scott Hanson and Scott Flanagan they were both designers that had pieces or had their designs in the magazines from time to time they probably didn't know it at the time but I was doing their diagrams for their quilts as they were going in the magazine and so I've gotten to know them over the time through that and then Scott Flanagan has an extra connection to Winterset his aunt lives here and she was one of the founding member founding board members I will quote him to so I've gotten to know him a little bit more through that connection and I've also taught out his direction Mike Ellingson I just keep hearing wonderful things work we kind of live in the same general Midwest area we teach it a lot of the same locations that I would go to places to teach and they would say and do you know the the designer thing that's from blue works because that's where he used to live in Minnesota and I would say well I've heard about him but I haven't met him yet so through this I've been able to get to know Mike a little bit on this and as you can see he's got fabulous quilts I continue to design patterns for PeaceWorks quilt shop and teach classes there we've got a retreat center unfortunately our timing wasn't real great because we opened it February first and we were able to have a few weeks of wonderfulness and then it's been shuttered since other than me going in and playing every so often just to make sure that the building is still there so that's kind of my background and you know the other thing is if there's a lot of people wonder how a lot of men get into quilting my back story is that when I was little I had asthma as a child and in the wintertime that's when my asthma was a worse my grandmother was trying to find things to keep me occupied and so when I asked for one too many quilts my grandmother said you've got two hands you can do it yourself and that's where I got started from was on the basis of that and she was she did very practical quilts um she had ten kids she my grandfather had died when he was in his 50s so she was running a farm still racing you know she when my grandfather died she was still raising kids by the time I was around she was her faith in kids but so her quilts were all scrapped quilts and that's one of the things that I you know I really like about the work that I see that Scott does he likes to work with lots of fabrics and a variety of prints and stuff and so that kind of gets me back to those wonderful scrap quilts that I grew up with and that's why I love mixing as much pattern and color as I can to so that's how I got into it and you know when I was junior high back in the late 70s she wanted to make quilts for all of our kids there weren't the pattern books that we have now so she needed me to make all the pattern pieces for those and that's how I started learning how you go about designing a quilt and so that's how I got into it and it's brought me all the way here to this point so I'm excited to hear from the other designers in this group and and really glad to have them in this exhibit and you'll you'll be really thrilled by the quilts when you come to if you can actually come to museum which we plan it we're going to be able to do that it's a really I'm really happy with the way the exhibit has turned out thanks Tony I would oh that we have this it's a really fantastic exhibit I often say that every exhibit is my favorite but this one really is it's really right up there there's some really fantastic quilts here and we do hope that someday soon we will be allowed to open the doors maybe even just half capacity but right now we're doing our best to bring the quilts to you since we can't bring you to the quilts so several people have joined us since we began so I'm just gonna give a quick little recap of where we are and what we're doing we're here at the Iowa quilt museum in Winterset Iowa and we are featuring man-made virtual showing the quilts of Scott Hanson Mike Ellingson Scott Flannigan Tony Jacobson among others we're having a little conversation this evening just to remind you that this program is being offered free of cost of course but we would appreciate any donations that you feel like you're willing to make we're able to make to the Iowa quilt museum and in just a moment I'll put the donation link here in the comments for you you may have noticed that I put the link to PeaceWorks quilt shop in the comments Tony makes sure I got that correct if you would please but you can look through there and find more information about peace works they're doing some online sales right now and believe you can find some of Tony's patterns for purchase there we're showing Scott and Scott's quilts and Tony is sitting in front of Mike's quilts but a little bit later I will be sure I move over so that you can see Tony is quilt as well because it is equally fabulous so thanks Tony for an introduction of our exhibit we're gonna pass things over to Scott Hanson of Sultan Washington Scott I'm gonna go ahead and do a spotlight on your videos so everybody knows a little bit about yourself okay well how you always ask me how I got into quilting so just start there when I was a kid my parents really well my dad / - we like new stuff and in the 70s that would be fake paneling terrible colors and carpet and lots of plastic and a new new new new new and they didn't like anything old old was bad and I kind of like the antique since Jefferson I thought that was kind of cool so you know their their bedspread was a polyester green thing for Montgomery Ward's like that and so Summerlin way I don't know how I like it was just maybe close to 70s mid 70s and the Bicentennial was on I don't know I just kind of fell in love with that stuff and so I won't I thought quilts I made my own quilt that I was 14 or so and because I was home AK and everyone did shop or you know shop and home neck and everyone did the same thing and I was much better with needle and thread that I wasn't buzz saws and stuff like that so fast forward I did made that quilt and then I didn't do anymore to college and then I got married and my wife and I went to a quilt show and I was like wow I could make those I could make those I had purchased some antique ones you know and I started making him I just kept making him and making him the making him and then one day I wanted to I was working in a store and I found this balloon a blue nickel here I'll show you guys this is the actual blue nickel and I found this in a till and has a red on the other side which is my favorite color there's actually red but this is actually the real one I found I just found this and so I thought well I'm gonna do my own I want to have a quilt shop I was going to name it blue nickle studios because I didn't want to not just be a quilt shop but that could maybe be other things to gifts and stuff like that which never worked but it kind of stuck and when blogging started I started doing a blog and I just started designing for magazines I guess the first Megas quilt ever had in a magazine was with mark Lipinski's quilters home around 2006 or so and so i did that and that was pretty cool and I just started doing more and then I just started meeting people and I went to quilt market actually the people who got me really started thinking I could design quilt instead of course with a shop a war neighbors of yours in country threads over in Garner Iowa and Mary and Connie and they are very good friends of mine still and they were very scrappy very kind very country brown colors and then as I was working everything in Browns and Country colors and my wife said my favorite colors were brown plaid she that was one color and she thought hey I had to have crows and pumpkins and everything which was kind of true then but not so much now and then I found Kay facet and his fabrics which you're probably I don't know anyway this quote behind me he's got a lot of free spirit fabric some like that's Anna Maria and her honor Maria and all those guys anyway so I started doing that and I started to start drawing and designing and now I teach I do lectures I was supposed to go my first cruise in August teaching and I just found out they got cancelled today so I don't know why the phone's ringing sorry about that I know where that came from let's see I lost my track anyway so I have a website now it's balloonicle studios I am just I have a blog of Instagram these quotes behind me or some of them I started to sell this one's called this one here is called tree time and it's kind of the fast version of my most popular one is this called painted forest and then the one behind Megan that birch tree one is muting the bark so I'm kind of into trees I kind of grew up in the woods and I like those best what else about me is like design color sewing and I like how things go together and I like mixing things up like Tony said I I never met I like combining odd colors so I think that's in a nutshell usually I talk for a lot longer than that I don't know if there's any questions or anything should I show quilts all sort of things well we'll let you talk again for sure if you're gonna say but I want to show your quilt I'm gonna turn maker just a little bit it's made entirely out of horizontal strip pieces and when I first looked at your quilt and I knew it was called beauty in the bark but I thought gosh that's a strange name for that quote because my eye focused so much more on the blue and then somebody said the word birch trees while I was looking at it and my complete perception shifted just like that oh my god its birch trees and it just was amazing to me and that's one of my favorite things about looking at quilts in the museum especially because we can allow a different perspective when we can get some distance from them then we can when we're looking at them so close which is which is why I love love love this space that we're in and now it's just like a one of those I puzzles you can't look at it now with I can't without seeing the birch trees but until somebody said that I had no idea that I was looking at trees so anyway well yeah the trees behind me they people call them feathers a lot time and I originally if you can see that big one off there that big one there that was the first tree I had and that one actually was a feather I was trying to make but it ended looking what I could tree to me than a feather so and then I decide to call it paint that's called painted forest this is called tree time and people still come feathers or leaves or not what I thought they would be and then so on this beauty in that you can touch you can touch that quote if you want shown in the back of that you see it bigger now yeah it looks bigger yeah the back of it has some fabric that inspired the whole quilt actually it's just a print so you see there's a keep going yeah so that print there is a birch tree print that Valerie Wells designed and I fell in love with that fabric so much that I thought this has to be a quilt somehow so that's how that quote got inspired basically like that anchorman in the shirts I didn't expect that anyway yeah and that's a pattern too you can buy any of those patterns on my web site so and I did put Scott's website in the comments there the blue nickel studios and somebody else had asked where he was from um you told me it's Sultan Washington right yeah it's a little tiny burg northeast of Seattle it's at the foothill of the Cascades oh yeah when every time when we drive drive the way home you're looking up and there's things mountains and all and that snow just left them actually it's still there for a while we had snow a few weeks ago too it's it's a thing our Madison County Tourism director Teddy Yaeger is on with us and she's from the Seattle area so she's feeling a kindred spirit in you Scott's good yeah so if you've got questions for any of our presenters feel free to put them in the comments I will do my best to look for them teddy was the one who asked me to make that screen bigger so thanks for keeping me on track Teddy we're still letting people into the meeting um so if you're just joining us we were talking to Scott Hanson just a moment ago and Tony Jacobson who is the curator of this fantastic man-made exhibit um had give us a little introduction and now we are going to pass things over to Mike Ellingson just to split up the two Scott's a little bit so I'm gonna mute Scott Hanson and I'm going to unmute Mike Ellingson and spotlight him take it away Mike hello good evening everybody good to see you I spent I grew up on the north shore of Lake Superior little town called two harbors and my entire adult life was spent in southern Minnesota teaching I started as a high school band and choir director and then married my wife Sue who is a junior high band director and became the choir director at that school choir and drama and so after 36 years of teaching music and drama and my wife middle school band we retired and our son Andrew who is an elementary music teacher had been bugging us to move to Iowa so last August we we packed up 45 years in a house and do not ask me how much of that move was my stash my wife still doesn't know exactly how that all fit in but we moved to decora and found a lovely home the entire second floor is my studio area so it's a great spot to be I started my mom and my wife's mom were wonderful sewers when we were first married my wife took a sewing class through community ad and hated every single minute of it when she wasn't interested I'd always watched my mom's sew and watched over her shoulder and stuff so I sat down and and sewed myself a shirt and a blazer and our daughter Kate was a the age where she was flower girl and a bunch of relatives wedding so so that sort of stuff well later on my wife and I saw a picture of a quilt on the front of a magazine and like most young couples we had more time than money we could not afford the quilt but we could afford the fabric and this was in just it was just squares and that sort of thing and was in the days before rotary cutter so we tore the strip's to make sure they were straight and sewed them together and I was hooked I love the color I love the math I'm a sucker for bright colors against a black background I I just loved the whole whole bunch of things there most of my quilts until three years ago all of my quilts until three years ago were pieced and quilted by me and a little Bernina 1090 just a classic sewing machines whether they were queen or king sized quilts all on that little machine and about four years ago I broke down and saved up for a Bernina q20 which is a sit down quilting machine a 20 inch farm but I still move the quilt around because that's what I've spent a lifetime learning I've got a series about 20 or 30 patterns and I've been the designer of the block of the month for the Calico hutch quilt shop in hayward Minnesota where I do a lot of teaching since 2012 excellent so now tony is moving out of the picture and i'm gonna spot like that so that we can see mike's quilts called woven spectrum and yeah that's a quilt made from twelve fat quarters of colored batik set together Megan I think you you talked about on the on the last tour after getting the piecing done when I went to the quilting I made sure each color had its own particular style of quilting so that the quilting also told the story of the weaving besides the color doing that right yeah when somebody else pointed that out to me I just thought that was a really clever choice in the quilting because it makes each piece exactly like you said it looked like a unique piece of like grosgrain ribbon and it's just not only is it remarkably technically accurate of which I am jealous colors are stunning and I agree with you the bright colors on the black background is just really really striking now Mike mentioned the calico hatched quilt shop in Hayward Minnesota which is where he does a lot of his teaching and selling his patterns and it's just like you would expect calico hutch quilt shop um so I'm putting the putting that in there for your comments now Mike did you quilt this one or did someone put this one for you every single quilt I've ever made I have quilted myself well well done you Gloria says she has a kid I mean it's peace but it's not quilted yet she's she's making progress very good we're loving your comments everybody please keep them coming if we don't get to them right now we will come back and circle around them Teddy I wrote down your comment from earlier about just got Hansen and I will circle back around to that so you're welcome to pop a comment into the chat section or raise your hand if you can find the raise hand button and we will make sure that these gentlemen get your questions answered so we've heard from Scott Hanson we've heard from Mike Ellingson so I am going to mute mic and I'm gonna unmute Scott's plane again and it is your turn mr. Scott Flannigan take it away hi everyone is great to be here with you tonight so my journey in Kolding started much like Scott Hanson's I learned to quote from my maternal grandmother but I come from a line of cultures and crafters in general my grandma roped he taught me to quilt doing charity Coulter Lutheran World Relief my dad's dad was a woodworker my dad's woodworker mom sews and quilt so variety of ways I came into quilting probably been designing and coming up with my own stuff a little bit since even grandma taught me just because we were doing charity I could just mess around while she sewed then in high school I'd want to do a quilt for a beloved choir director which I know it's a number of people in tonight's visit have connections there I kind of like to design and whatever size the quilt ends up there's one size I make it that was the largest hole I've ever done it was 144 by 144 inches features signatures photos of all the choir students and everything from that year and I called it on my Bernina 1008 that I had at that time and I did a quick I did the birthing method I didn't bind it so I kind of crawled in the quilt turned it and then finished up the edge then I became friends with a Bernina dealer in my hometown Obama Colorado and they encouraged me to take on quilting as more of an art form that I had to that point moved to Fremont in 2003 for college and then started my senior year a job at Country traditions called shop in Fremont where I've been since 2007 I'm teaching quilting classes teaching machine owners classes for five and Bernina and then into thought and brother sorry and then in 2011 I started fourth of Maine designs my own parent design company my favorite part of designing is sampler quilt I love sampler quilt so as you can see the quilt behind me is a sampler quilt and the one by Meghan is a sampler quilt as well I get kind of bored doing the same quilt block over and over again I like something a little bit more movement a little more interest to keep your eye moving and to not get bored peace in the same block 50 or 60 times and then I just launched my website fourth and main designs comm just on Monday where you can buy my patterns that I had been doing through the magazines and my very first pattern was through fawns and quarter you know I don't remember what it was I think Tony did the drafting go for it I don't remember what it was though that was probably 2012 2013 I think that's about it so I'm gonna unspotted Scott for just a second wait maybe I already did I'm gonna spotlight myself because I'm sitting with Scotts quilt over my shoulder so this is called his illusions I usually design a cool I have the quilt designed and then I go find fabric for it this one here I was inspired by the background fabric which is called trigonometry my original went to college to become an architect decided I had to take calculus in physics and I decided I wasn't that wasn't my forte so I went to business and said but the trigonometry fact just really captivated me on this and I thought Runge fabrics on top of it would be fantastic so I bought 36 grunge backcourt and the entire tenured bolt of the trigonometry fabric from the shop where I work came home and start designing and ended up with this great sampler quilt with lots of blocks different looks textures then I called Tony actually for another 10 yard bolt for the back because it is a big quilt and then my friend Nancy McNally did the phenomenal quilting that really showcases the dwelt so I mean it I got back further but now I'm gonna see if I can get a little bit closer so you can see they're really nifty quilting in the in the relief areas and the coating on it really Nancy and I go back who's she thinks my piercing is stunning I think our quilting is stunning just a great pairing of the two of us well and in truth you're both right all right so I'm gonna unmute again all of our panel here except I can't unmute Tony cuz he and I are in the same room and then we get echoes so Scott Hanson somebody asked if you do your quilting or I'm sorry if you do you're piecing by hand or machine what's your preference Scott Hanson I do everything by machine and I quote by check I don't do my own quilt thing yet I somebody smaller things now myself but but yeah I do everything by my machine and my mom I actually didn't know anything about quilting my mom helped me make my first quote and weed I never heard of what Scott Flannigan we did that thing but he called a birthing method I never heard of that and every time I tell people that they think I'm insane kiss my mom crawled in there pulled it back I didn't know anyone else ever did that I'm like so cuz she did know what she was doing she wasn't a quilter and and people love that story out here and then in the northwest cut over the Guild's I talked to no ones no one ever says mention that they've done it that way too so I'm amazed and I was going to be an architect - Wow I was going to be an architect and I ended up getting an scurrying and not not teaching kids cuz they want these junior highers and that's where they start all teachers and I thought there's no way I'm teaching junior highers no way so anyway so so so kudos do you Mike for teaching because I it's amazing anyway so yeah so very cool so Scott who actually quilts in beauty in the birth for you that one's done by Penny Barnes and she's out somewhere in your area somewhere I'm not sure where she lives she's somewhere in the Midwest penny barns oh yeah right yeah yeah so Jim says he can't imagine quilting a 12 foot by 12 foot quilt on a domestic machine even with a large throat did you have someone to help you maneuver all of the fabric oh no I just shoved it through real bracele I just shoved it [Laughter] ignorant is bliss so so keep submitting questions to us in the comments if you'd like to I'm gonna see if I can um let's see I've got my phone logged in I think maybe nuts all right then you're gonna have to put up with me moving my computers which is a little backwards but I'm gonna see if I can't get over here and show you Tony is close look there it is let's see if I can spot like my video so that it comes a little bit bigger for you as a big now yes okay good so I'm gonna get a little closer and hope that I'm not running into any walls behind me so um Tony go ahead and tell us a little bit about your quilts here oh you're right sorry about that okay so this quilt is the modern hurt it's one of four quilts that I've done with this pattern it's the modern version the original version that I did was called perky land medallion it was a 13 fabric 1:1 fabric border on it scrap quilt the next version was 27 different fabrics and then I did a peace border just random kind of scrap quilt then I did one that was black and white and with a little bit of green in it and another peace border and then this was my modern version using all solids and I kind of was challenged by the fact that the store owner of piece works and one of the gals that was working at the shop at the time said it would be boring because it was made with solid fabrics and I said no it's not going to be boring no all of the gold strips are all pieced into it and a wonderfully quilted by Shelley poly I down in Missouri and so she did a great job of of quilting it too so oh yeah if you'll notice I've got I've got full colors are used in the design and so that it'll make the warm color of the yellow stand out and I've also put the light colors to the middle and then branched out to the dark colors so browser into the quilt yeah the ombre it's really cool in that so this quilt is on what we call our curtain wall it divides our gift shop from our gallery and we always look for a quilt that has a lot of pizzazz to it a lot of visual appeal that's that's not accurate because they all have that but something that really plays well from seeing it from a distance and Tony's quilt really fit the bill it's just got a lot of visual appeal both up-close with that fantastic quilting and from a distance so I'm just gonna turn around and show you what's at the entirely other end of the gallery our this is this wonderful self-portrait by Jack Edson and then Ricky Tim's quilt is on your right and Ricky Tim's father's quilt is on your left we're not gonna take you around the whole gallery this evening we get back on the screen here we are gonna do some more programming in the coming weeks we're gonna use Wednesday's as our virtual programming days as much as we can so stay tuned next week which would be May 13th we're actually going to be online with don't tell me deb guyot and jack edson deb guyot is the director at the quilters Hall of Fame in Marion Indiana and Jack Edson is the quilt I just showed you he does he has got a collection of self-portraits among other wonderful quilts and so we're gonna visit with them next Wednesday time yet to be announced but mark that on your calendars so I've got a few questions that have come in and we'll just throw these out to any of the panelists who want to answer have any of you considered hosting a men's retreat I don't know if that's a question that needs answering necessarily but certainly a suggestion to you eventually my wife and I were thinking about doing retreats we're in the process of moving and we're trying to get moved to an island so we at would have like there's one one place where we want to go there's a center where we could host it and stuff so we'll to see I don't know well specifically amends but quilting for sure so to see how it goes so and Tony mentioned earlier that he and Joyce Franklin just opened more pieces the retreat center right here in winter sets so Tony there's an idea for you men's only retreat instead of chocolate and wine you could serve beer and beef jerky I don't know that's that's really great Tony says I agree with that so have any of you faced any adversity when joining into the quilt industry and competitions I know the first one of my first days working at the Cole store the customer who came my boss had me off to a customer the customer looked at me flatly and said do you know anything about what you're doing and since then she and I become very good friends and when she comes in I'm the person she wants to work with but what we never forget that I never let her live that down either the fact that she questioned if I knew what I was doing but I've never done competition so I'd have to pass that on to Tony's the others daughter Mike on that one I I've never really done competitions I well I actually find it very funny because my wife and I'll go into quilt shop together all the time and I always go to her first and then she says oh he's a quote there or so like that so cuz she actually does thinks it's ridiculous to cut up little pieces of fabric and sew him back together so but she plays with dolls so she she's changed her mind now lately so but no I actually think it's funny and I because I I because some people are weird and some people are not and it's like um I don't really care cuz I just like what I like so there have been some shot um people have been kind of snotty but I don't know it was because I was a man or not some people may think that I I never did quite early care so but I hear that a lot and I guess I just don't pay attention but I'm also on the west coast so things may be different out here maybe I don't know we tend to be a little more conservative and traditionalist here in the Midwest so yeah Tony did you want to add to that yeah back in the early 90s when I was living in Pennsylvania it was funny because I was the quilter and my wife hadn't learned to quilt yet and we go into stores and they would say because I was buying yard and a half at the time I never knew what I was going to do with the fabric I was just buying fabric and then I designed it later and they would come up to me and said are you sure that's the amount your wife would want well you can ask her but she wouldn't have a clue because she's not a closer that's my reference yes you know it's it's amazing and unfortunate that stereotypes you know really run deep in both directions sometimes you a good thing a good thing is it quilt shows there's never a line in the men's restroom baseball games oh I suppose there's a line in the ladies room there too I can guarantee although quilt shows about half the men's restrooms are closed and they become ladies row that's true too that's sometimes true yes all right so Arlene Clint says so the little stripes are pieced into the triangles she's referring to Tony's quilts yes the little gold pieces are pieced into his triangles and yes that makes him crazy [Laughter] all right somebody's iPhone we don't have their name says what are the quilters bucket-list quilts oh I love that one what's on your quilting bucket list dear Jane quilt sometime oh yeah actually I somewhere in my stash there's this maple we put my wife asked me to make before I started designing my own that she and I paid for the pattern and hope she just walked in the room I haven't I don't know where it is that I will make it someday can I actually I'm working on one right now it's all black and red and white that I might be putting in a magazine so I can't show but actually was gonna put it in a book in the book never it happened and I love that quote and then it's kind of like someone someone did an art quilt similar to it like four years ago and then someone else named a quote the same name I gave it it's like you know I need to get this done before ever and thinks I copied their quilt because how did the idea seven years ago I can't say any more about it right that's just black and red mostly that's all I can tell you Coulter's bucket list you know for the people down here that know me my build bucket like would just be to get my quilts bound kind of itself would be a miracle actually I'd like to go to Paducah I've never been to Paducah yeah in that case that is Houston festival for me there you go well and as far as I know well Mike have you visited the i/o port Museum and we visited Winterset but it was before the Iowa quilt museum open there so we've not been there yet and Scott Flanagan you've been here right okay I haven't I'd like to be there anything also check out Lincoln too as well where does three hours from Lincoln come stay in Winterset and then we'll drive you back over to Lincoln for a day trip my dad's from Litchfield Nebraska where hazard hazard or Litchfield do you know where those are a tiny town soon I know where those are there northa Kearney I think Karen yeah I was there when I was seven it was a long time ago he went to he lived in a little town called hazard and then he went to school in Litchfield and there he is hello class is like twelve or no twenty maybe you know there's a lot of all right so Jim who I think it's the same Jim who said that he'd be happy to come for chocolate and wine if you had a men's retreat Jim asks if any of you belong to quilt guilds he is one of three men in a guild of 300 they all love him dearly I'm sure they do especially if he reaches high things and lists things for them he learned so much from them all and he really misses the contact as do we all so well guilds for any of you yeah I belong to the local quilt guild I have but I have not had time and I've joined tried to going another again I just never had time it's always a bad time for me so it's I guess I find a lot of my friendships are with designers and online now so I don't get out in the guy like when I go teach and speak that's when I get to see my guilds I get to see all sorts of guilds I love you know I'm the only guy in that one but back in Blue Earth we haven't had a guild at men under the umbrella community education there and there were three guys who were members of the guild my firt when i went to my first guild me there was a guy he was like on the board that that was in 97 but that was the only other guy out here there's more now but I don't go to guilt as much downtime so Tony on your computer can you pull up the picture you posted of may the force be with you the other day that might be easier than meet shotting all the way up to the mezzanine so while Tony is doing that I think we've gotten all the questions answered one of the unique aspects of the Iowa quilt museum is we have this beautiful mezzanine level which is a floor between a floor and we have on loan to us a historic bed from our local Historical Museum and so we do a bed turning display with every exhibit and right now it features one of Scott's Flanagan's quilts sorry I'm reading comments at the same time trying to split my brain and some quilts by some other Iowans if you haven't seen it yet there's a video on our Facebook page a facebook live post that we did with the bed turning quilts Toni and I and daughter Annabelle and then so we have that and there's also a video that takes you through the whole exhibit so you can find both of those on our Facebook page if you haven't seen those yet so I'm hoping that Tony can find that picture I just sprung it on him so you can show it um so let me see if I can do a yeah we just need to get you back there and do a screen share so we can see Scott Flanagan's other quilts called may the force be with you which we celebrated two days ago on all right so are you ready to do a screen share Tony okay if you're Catholic and with your spirit okay there you go one of my college friends and I are both born and raised Lutheran we went to Midland Lutheran College and we had a love of Star Wars so a couple of years ago for Christmas I decided to do something special for him so and I like to quilt so much I end up doing one for me as well I'm fortunate besides me a lot of fun quilting tools in my collection my dad also has a lot of fun tools for his woodworking and he has a laser cutter and he laser cut all the appliques for me so all I had to do was fuse them down and stitch around them I love how this cool turned out it's 50 by 60 50 by 70 somewhere in there I floated the entire quilt first and then I appliquéd everything on afterwards oh wow because I was like you know too cold around all the applique is gonna take forever so by quilting at first and then applique at last I didn't have to call to route all the words and all the different characters on the border mm-hmm nice that's cool so you fused and then sewed around them Scott yes so I used I think Steven seemed to light this one there's got the sticky back to it I had dad accused it to the fabric that laser cut it and then I quilted the whole quilt then stuck it down then blanket stitch around everything machine blanket stitched yep oh yeah by hand I think the actual characters on the sides I just did a straight stitch but the words in the center I did do a blanket stitch I can answer the one question there will never be a pattern for this project because I'm really scared of getting sued by Disney and Lucas and oh yeah they were too unless you could get them to license it for you there to buy it from you and then you'd be golden you true buy don't they they'd have I don't think I could get them to go for that either no probably not so I'm gonna put the link to find the page to donate to the Iowa School Museum in our comments one works fine again we are offering this program free of cost but if you feel that it's within you to give a little donation our way you would be grateful for that we're not saying you need to donate buku bucks our way average admission or admission costs - and the exhibit is six dollars typically when we would hold a program like this we would charge ten or fifteen dollars for the ticket so any little bit that you feel like you can donate as appreciated of course we have next to no income right now and so we would like to keep the museum up and running so that we're here and featuring quilts and quilters like this for a really long time I've said a couple times and a couple different circumstances even though there's a lot of downsides to this Cova 19 business one of the positive things that's going to come from it from our standpoint is we're being forced to think outside the box and how we can bring programming and this is wonderful we won't stop doing this just because we can open our doors again we will continue to bring virtual programming because our in-person programming would never get people from you know across the country and we know we've got a lot to be here that are from outside of our local area and so thank you for joining us we're always happy when we get people who show up for these things that we plan it makes it feel like it's worth it and we've really enjoyed visiting with these fabulous artists this evening I had one person who asked real quick to see Jack Ed's in this quilt so I'm going to turn that into a I'm gonna help clean up all off my chair and turn this into a plug for our next virtual program we're gonna do all of our virtual programming on Wednesdays and next Wednesday we will be joined by Jack Edson who is the artist and the face in this quilts that you're here seeing here is the self-portrait Tony where is Jack located he's in New York State and then we'll also join Deb guy who is the director at the quilters Hall of Fame in Marion Indiana and so that will be next Wednesday's program time to be announced but it will be during the day as opposed to the evening mr. west coast who's two hours ahead of us we we did an evening program to accommodate him but we are happy to do so and we are happy that you all joined us are there any more questions that we want to you've got about Oh somebody just wrote puzzle in the comments and so I should mention in addition to making a monetary donation which of course is tax-deductible you can find a link on our website to our online gift shop we've worked really hard the last several weeks to move a lot of our gift shop merchandise online so that's another way that you can support the Iowa quilt museum and trickle down to that is you can support local artists as well because we have a lot of items in our gift shops that are consigned made by local artisans both quilters and non cultures we have some fabulous seam rippers that are hand turned by a gentleman here in our area with some beautiful glass mosaic pieces that are quilt blocks and so we do our best to support local artists through our gift shop as well so thank you to Mike and Tony and Scott and Scott for joining us for providing these fabulous quilts thank you all for joining us if you know somebody who wasn't able to log in this evening tell them to check our website and our Facebook page as soon as I get the video I will be posting it up there so that everybody can see it again have a lovely evening and we hope we'll see you again next week everyone thanks for coming

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Published: Thu May 07 2020