- They make great quilts in Montana, not always on horseback, but inside the log cabins at the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch, stay tuned for a quilt getaway in the land of the big sky.

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♪ ♪ The art of the heart and design of the mind ♪ - [Announcer] "Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel" is made possible in part by grants from, Omnigrid, the original patented black and yellow ruler.

By Leisure Arts, publisher and distributor of needle work and craft publications, including an assortment of quilt books and related products.

Additional funding by, Fairfield Processing.

Maker of polyfill brand products for the home, sewing, quilt and craft industries.

And by Bernina, delivering sewing technology and education to sewers worldwide.

[water rushing] - Welcome to our ranch R&R and our show entitled, "Yippie-Ki-Yo Quilter."

We are at the nine Quarter Circle Ranch for a whole week of workshops and quilt making.

The ranch is located between Bozeman and West Yellowstone.

Montana, which means mountainous in Spanish contains more than 94 million acres of land.

From desert to mountains.

In my class, we're gonna tackle that mountain of fabric as we use in exchange Western fabric, all kinds of cowboy prints.

Then we will meet Charlotte Warr Anderson and discover her quilt specialties.

Come on and join us.

[door creeks and slams] Howdy partners, in my class this week, we are working with the idea of one design with one triangle and three sizes.

You can see a huge king size quilt that is made up of one size triangle, but notice how it alternates with denim fabric and every sort of western kind of fabric made today.

When it all comes together, you see big squares.

Going down in size from the king size to a double size quilt, we've come down to an eight inch triangle, and this time we're alternating triangular rolls of denim with all the western fabric for a whole new character in the quilt.

Even smaller yet, is our little cow pul baby quilt.

And this time we alternate one cowboy fabric with just blue denim that are highlighted with bandana print all the way around the outside.

Holding it together, just tie tacking it on the machine in the center of each square.

And now to that mountain of fabric that everyone has brought.

Our supply list for this week was for each of the girls to bring two yards of Western printed fabric, something with cowboys on it, and they really did their job.

However, Barb and Amy here, it just got a little out of hand and what you see in front of them are mountains of fabric.

Tell us what happened, Barb.

- Well, when I started seeing it coming out in the stores, I had seen it back in the late '50s and it reminded me so much of the late '50s and I wanted to have it again, because by the time it comes around the next time I'm gonna be an old lady, real old lady.

- Now you've got a lot of stitching in front of you and the good news is, because you all brought so much, we really don't have any duplicates in what we've done with our little steps this week.

What happened with you, you just liked it or?

- Yeah, I went to the store and bought what I needed to bring here.

Then it got outta hand and I found something I liked.

And then we hit every fabric store on the way from Washington.

- Well, let's go to the design board and see exactly how we used all this fabric.

For our method this week, we're relying on the triangles that have the seam allowance included on all three sides.

The long side, which is on the straight of the grain and the two bias sides.

The seam allowance is already there.

Now we would working with the eight inch measurement across, and so in order to know what size square to cut out, we simply superimposed and put our ruler on top of that eight measurement and came out to nine and a quarter.

If we were doing the larger, the 12, that would be a larger measurement, or the four inch, of course would be a smaller measurement.

But in this case, we were cutting squares of our western fabric and our denim.

Each of us in order to trade fabric, simply folded our fabric in two along the salvage and then cut all of our niner and quarter inch squares.

It was so nice because once these were cut, now we had a lot of fabric that we were cutting, with the right sides together, we were able to place those in stacks and then went around the room and traded fabric.

With this medley of fabric, each of us having two pieces from everyone, we went to the sewing machine and machine stitched on all four sides.

Remember, this is the straight of the grain and the crosswise.

We then discovered, and Barb figured out that if we take the time to go ahead and snip off our little right angle corners, it makes it a lot easier when we go ahead and cut this square apart on the diagonal.

We then would take our measurement from here to here and simply cut across, not moving it, but turning our ruler.

Keeping those right together and lining up our ruler again, we're ready to get our second diagonal.

And so then we're ready to cut across, and when we open up, we have the sets that we're working with this week.

Notice that the medium size sets go with a double size quilt, and then the larger sets, which would be based on a 12 inch measurement, go with our king size, or our baby quilt uses the four inch.

Let's see what the students have done with their squares.

It really is amazing to see what seven girls have done in two days.

No two quilts are alike and they're just working with these squares.

Lee Rae, tell me what you're ending up with.

- Well, I'm ending up with the pattern with the cowboy prints, and then I liked my Indian print, so I put it around the border, and hoping my five-year-old grandson will also like the quilt.

- I'm sure he will.

I like the black triangles too, that form an even deeper color all the way around the outside, framing it.

- Right, I do too.

- We're glad to have you here.

- Nice to be here.

- Barb, we'll talk to you in a few minutes, just keep sewing, all right?

- [Barb] Thanks.

- Mary-Jane, is there a story here?

You must share us, why is that hat right in the middle of your quilt?

- Well, my double bed quilt is going to our cabin in the Ghost River Valley in the Canadian Rockies.

And the significance of the hat, there was a hat that belonged to my husband's father that he treasured, it was a Stetson.

And so when my husband saw the print, he thought it would be nice to put it in the center of the quilt, and I agreed.

So that's what we're gonna do.

- The fact that he treated you to a week at a ranch, there's no doubt that that's where it's going, right in the middle.

- Right in the middle, and it's been wonderful.

- And you're doing a pinwheel setting.

- Yes, I think I'm the only one doing that.

So I tried it and it worked, so why not?

- Well, let's see what it looks like in the quilt.

- Okay.

- Barb, thank you.

Barb, you're down here at the end almost.

You're creating the diagonal rows that come together that form the quarter sections, and they're triangles, four big triangles.

Do you have any secrets for the backside here?

- Well, I alternated seams within each row.

These ones going in and these ones going out.

So when the quilt's put together, these intersections will lie flat, I hope.

- We'll keep our fingers crossed.

Another example of our setting is with eagles.

Karen, tell us about why you're using eagle fabric.

- Well, when we first saw the quilt, when you sent out the sample and we went out shopping for fabric, we found this neat eagle print.

And my husband has a favorite saying about, you can never have too many eagles.

So I told him I would make the quilt for him, but we had to have lots of eagles in it.

- It's creating a medallion setting in the whole quilt.

Well, we're moving into the dining room because we're running outta space.

This is Susie from St. Louis, and her claim to fame is that she has never finished an entire quilt top until now.

Tell us about your setting and what you've done.

- I love the jewel tone colored as the western fabrics, and I decided not to split them up into triangles, but instead to keep the triangles together so there'd be large blocks of color on the body of the quilt.

- Is this, do you have a destination for this quilt?

- This is for my son Ben, and his bunk bed.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

- [Georgia] Barb, were you in the class that we had these two days?

I don't think so, this is a totally different quilt.

Tell us the concept and why you turned the triangles the way you did.

- Well, I did use the same set as everybody else, but I put them in a different design, and I like a lot of motion and a lot of movement in my quilts, and I also like to be different.

- Well, you certainly succeeded, and I guess maybe that's because you're a teacher here in Bozeman, a Barb crib, and we certainly appreciate it.

How are you gonna finish it?

- Well, I'm just going to bind 'em.

Once I had it hanging, I decided it didn't need borders, and I'm just going to finish it as is.

- [Georgia] It's wonderful.

- Thank you.

- And of course, we wanted to finish this little portion of our show with what we all viewed on the trail this week, right?

- Now, on our way to Charlotte Warr Anderson's class, meet the host and owners of the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch, Kim and Kelly Kelsey.

I know everyone's wondering why quilting at a dude ranch?

- Well, as you know, we have mutual friends in New Zealand and Shirley's a quilter.

And when you were in New Zealand, she said, "Why don't you put on a quilting seminar at the ranch?"

And her husband spends the summers with us here, and that's how we got together.

- [Georgia] And here we are with a wonderful successful week.

It's been so much fun to see how a ranch operates.

And, tell us about ranch life, Kim, what's it like?

- Well, it's a great way of life.

It's pretty western with lots of horses, dealing with nature a lot, dealing with people.

And we've been doing it for, well, I grew up on the ranch.

My dad started the place in 1946, and Kelly and I got married about 10 years ago, so we've been doing it for quite a while now.

- [Georgia] What are the winters like here?

- They can be pretty brutal.

40, 50 below, two to three feet of snow, and we have equipment where we can get in and out all right.

And most of the horses are down at our winter pasture at lower altitude.

- [Georgia] The quilters wanted me to ask you about your five year plan, Kelly, for the quilts on the bed.

I know you've been in both of our classes but you're an advanced quilter yourself.

Tell us what you've been doing in these log cabins.

- Well, we're trying to make quilts for all the beds in all the cabins, and that's about 60 something beds.

And our cook, Susie and myself, in the winter, that's what we do is try to make quilts.

And I'd had a five year plan, but I'm not sure that it's gonna be five years.

Might be a little longer.

- Okay, well, we certainly appreciate your hospitality this week, and the help, and everyone has been wonderful and we look forward to coming back again, thank you.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Charlotte Warr Anderson, it's so nice to have you here as our co-teacher this week.

- It's been great.

- Have you enjoyed the ranch?

- Oh, it's splendid.

- It really is.

I know you're from Salt Lake City, and I know you travel a lot, and I have admired your quilts for so long.

But I'd like to hear you tell everyone about what your specialty in quilt making is today.

- Well, I make one of a kind pictorial quilts.

I love taking fabric and seeing what I can do with it.

Seeing how much realism I can coax out of it.

And there's only so much you can do without resorting to embroidery or something like that.

I usually make either appliqued quilts or pieced quilts.

Sometimes I mix a little bit of both, but usually they're one or the other.

- [Georgia] Now, what have you chosen this week for the students?

- Well, since we're up here at the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch and they have a herd of appaloosa, I decided to make a pieced appaloosa.

And I started thumbing through my husband's appaloosa journals and found this picture.

And I liked the pose of the horse in it, so I took a piece of tracing paper and put over the top of it, and did a little line drawing of it.

I then took the line drawing to the copy store and did several enlargements from it till I got a horse the size I wanted.

Then I imposed straight lines over the top of it, I eliminated all the curves.

Some of the little seam lines are only a quarter of an inch long, but when you put them end to end, you get the illusion of curves.

- [Georgia] Well, how are the girls doing?

- They're doing just great.

Some of them were so intimidated when they first saw our class project, but as they worked through it, they saw how logical the process was, and they're all doing just super with their projects.

- [Georgia] And I heard 'em talking about what they're gonna do in the future with their own pictures at home.

So that's always encouraging.

- Right.

- [Georgia] And then you had a simpler project of... - [Charlotte] Yes, I gave them the option of doing something less complicated than the appaloosa.

This is a little goose piece and it's not quite so detailed as the appaloosa is.

- Let's meet some of Charlotte students and check on their progress.

Kathy, how's it doing?

- Well, I'm doing pretty good, I've got some done.

- I'd say yeah, maybe half done.

- Yeah, it looks like it, and I have learned so much.

I'll improve next time, but it's loads of fun.

- Well, that's good.

And maybe the iron will take care of a few problems.

- Yes, it needs to be pressed out and smooth a little bit, and maybe some seams a little redone where I've... - I see some marbling fabric in there, I'm glad to see that.

- Had to include some of my marbling fabric.

- Yes, well, we must mention that Kathy is a co-author of the, "Marbling Fabrics for Quilts," and that's something we've all been doing and having fun doing.

- Thanks for mentioning it.

- Yes, great.

Vivian, how are you today?

This is a far cry from what you used to do many years ago, right?

- Well, it is, and yet, it's just reminiscent of my career back in 1960 in Minneapolis in St. Paul.

KTCA TV started educational television and I was the first to teach sewing and homemaking on television at that time in that area.

- [Georgia] Well, I know they're gonna be viewers out there who are gonna recognize you.

- I'm Sure.

- We're so glad to have you here and good that you're keeping busy with a needle and thread.

Jean and Alice, we thought we'd talk to both of you here because you're roomies here at the ranch, and you're both have chosen something different.

How's it going?

- Great, it's a great experience.

I didn't think I'd like this pattern, but it's working out real well.

- Well, I think you've chosen good colors too.

- I hope so.

- You've got the contrast with the, is it a goose or a duck?

- They're geese.

- They're geese.

- Three geese.

- Three geese, oh, you're very ambitious.

- Well, I hope so.

- And you're doing and you're doing it hand piece.

- Yes, I'm doing it by hand.

- Alice, what have you chosen?

- Well, mine is in appaloosa, which is appropriate for here because we've ridden appaloosa horses since we've been here, and it's a lot of fun.

I've never done it before either.

And we're doing trees, and ground, and grass, and mountains, which, I'm gonna finish it, but I don't think I'll get it finished here.

- Well, it's like a puzzle you're creating.

It's just- - Absolutely.

- One step at a time, and it's all coming together.

- [Alice] A lot of cutout, which is fun.

- And you're doing a machine, or?

- [Alice] I'm gonna put it together by machine.

- Oh, and I love the fabric you've chosen for your appaloosa, it's really great.

- [Alice] I think it's interesting that this appaloosa horse is part dalmation.

This is where his fabric came from for here and here.

- Wonderful.

Hi Bunny, how's it going today?

- Just fine.

- As always.

- As always, yeah.

- We have discovered that Bunny is our great producer churning out many quilts, and she's also into garments.

Beautiful long coat, tell us about this.

- Well, this is my denim mandala coat.

And I designed one coat or jacket a year, and this was two years ago.

And I had a lot of fun doing it, and I learned more about angle piecing than I ever wanted to know.

- And what are you working on today?

You've got multi geese, tell us.

- Yeah, the original pattern was for three geese, but in my backyard, my neighbor has five white geese, so I had to elongate it and make five geese.

- [Georgia] I understand you've been here often, Bunny?

- Yes, we've come here almost every year for 11 or 12 years, so this is my second trip this year.

- [Georgia] Oh, wonderful, well, we hope to see you again.

Nyla, tell us about your fabric selection.

- I really enjoy the tie dyed fabrics because I get a subtlety of transition from one piece to another when working with such tiny pieces.

And I like that better than the sharp demarcation you get with the commercial fabrics.

- [Georgia] I see a lot of fabric exchanging in this room, so everyone's brought a lot.

And because you're only using a little bit, it's easy to borrow, isn't it?

- Oh, yes, we've all been very generous.

Someone asks for something and, or just takes it and everybody's happy.

- [Georgia] And now, this tie-dye is something you've used in another wall hanging, tell us about that.

- [Nyla] Yes, I was doing a series of landscape quilts relating to the Northern Ontario in Canada.

Landscapes that I'm familiar with because I live up there.

And so the piece that I have today is one of an abstract of trees in the autumn, in the district where I live.

- It's just so beautiful and thank you for sharing it with us.

- You're welcome.

- Well, that's great.

What's happening in your life now?

I understand you're going forward with more quilts?

- Well, I just submitted a manuscript proposal to CND publishing and they've agreed to do it.

It's going to be on applique for realism.

I like doing people with my technique, and one of the quilts that's going to be on the cover or the quilt that's going to be on the cover is of my niece Sharon, in a beautiful wooded background.

- [Georgia] And the shadings of her face and her body are just amazing how you incorporate that, and such a nature scene.

- [Charlotte] That's something that I love to do.

Just see how much I can put into a quilt, how much I can make it look like nature or reality.

- [Georgia] And it wouldn't be a treat without seeing some of your other work.

Show us that round piece.

- This is a little piece I did for a contest that was in Denmark.

It was sponsored by the Kelsons Butter Cookie Company, and the theme was, "Quilt A Modern Fairy Tale."

This little quilt is called, "The Gift."

I had my daughter Aubrey pose for the little girl at the bottom and then drew the fairy from my imagination.

- [Georgia] And now this big piece, tell us about this.

- This is a peace pictorial of an an old resort called Saltair.

It stood on the shores of the Great Salt Lake.

It was a beautiful Moorish style building.

It burned down a couple of times, it was rebuilt, but the building was never quite so beautiful as this one.

They reopened it just this past June.

They hung the quilt at the dedication ceremony, and the governor of Utah stood in front of it while they were doing this dedication.

- [Georgia] Oh, it's magnificent.

It just glows with all the silvery, and things you have in it.

- Yes, it was such an opulent palace, so I had to use all those exotic fabrics, the lames and, the silks, and acetates, rayons, whatever.

- [Georgia] Oh, that's great.

Well, Charlotte, keep up the good work and we've sure had a fun week.

- Oh, so have I.

[mellow music] - [Georgia] We close our show today by meeting Jane Quinn.

When I arrived in Bozeman and started to drive to the Ranch, a quilt show, caught my attention and, you know I had to stop.

Her show had a new twist.

It was hung outside on barns and clothes lines.

♪ Put's 'em to bed one day at a time ♪ ♪ The art of the heart and design of the mind ♪ ♪ Given his gifts since the animal hide ♪ ♪ Warms the body, ignites the mind ♪ ♪ A child sleeps under mother's creation, together forever ♪ ♪ Past and present sown in a relation ♪ ♪ The art of the heart and design of the mind ♪ - [Georgia] What a lucky break to find a quilt show in Bozeman, Montana.

Jane Quinn, something going on in your backyard.

Tell us about it.

- Yes, we had our first annual quilt show from my students from the past year.

And it was really wonderful because we were able to display the quilts on my 100 plus year locked barn.

And on the the bunk house, also on the blacksmith shop.

And we had quilts strung on the clothes line and ropes between the trees.

It was really a wonderful event.

- [Georgia] You got carried away with some cowboy and cowgirl fabric.

What happened with that?

- Well, we did, we had these displayed in the quilt show.

They're a result of three friends and I shopping together and buying a yard of this cowgirl fabric.

And then we each did our own design and unveiled them.

- [Georgia] They turned out great.

You have another thing that I think is unique and that's working with cheater blocks.

- I love to work with cheater blocks.

I think they really are challenging.

I used four of the panels from this particular cheater block, and then on the edge I used more parts of that cheater block.

- [Georgia] Now are you prepared to reveal that you're 50 years old, I understand?

- Yes, I am in a big way.

- [Georgia] What brought this on?

- Well, I decided that I was going to celebrate my 50th birthday, and I did that with having a quilting bee and inviting students and friends to come by and quilt on my birthday quilt.

I pieced this part that has the incriminating evidence on it, and then students, I ask them to contribute friendship blocks.

So all the blocks around the outside of the quilt are from my students.

- Thank you for being with us and continue the good teaching work here in Bozeman.

- Thank you, Georgia.

- Montana is lovely, but we've got to leave.

Join us next time when we look at garments on our show entitled, "Stylish Stitches."

♪ When you think it's hopeless once again ♪ ♪ Your Vision comes and its dancing with wind ♪ ♪ Warms the body, ignites the mind ♪ ♪ The art of the heart and design of the mind ♪ ♪ Puts you to bed one day at a time ♪ ♪ The art of the heart and design of the mind ♪ - [Announcer] "Lap quilting with Georgia Bonesteel' is made possible in part by grants from Omnigrid, the original patented black and yellow ruler.

By Leisure Arts, publisher and distributor of needle work and craft publications, including an assortment of quilt books and related products.

Additional funding by, Fairfield Processing.

Maker of polyfill brand products for the home, sewing, quilt, and craft industries.

And by, Bernina, delivering sewing technology and education to sowers worldwide.