Mary Knapp will be the quilting author/designer-in-residence at the 2013 Great Lakes Seaway Trail the first weekend only of the March 16-17, 23-24 show. She will be speaking and offering a class.
(Sackets Harbor, NY – Feb. 2013) The Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show is expanding to two weekends in Sackets Harbor.
Historic 1812-era venues in the waterfront village 70 miles north of Syracuse will host displays of American-made and Canadian-made quilts, special exhibits, a speaker’s program and class, demonstrations, and vendors on March 16-17 and March 23-24.
The show, organized by promoters of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail National Scenic Byway, features a different byway-related theme each year. For 2013, the Beauty of the Byways theme that is attracting quilts from U.S. states and Canada along with special traveling exhibits.
One special display includes 56 quilts honoring the famous Route 66 byway that stretches through eight U.S. states from Chicago to California.
Byways are also recognized by some of the award-winning quilts among the internationally acclaimed 80-piece Hoffman Fabrics Challenge traveling exhibit that will be at the show.
Quilter/designer-in-residence Mary Knapp, author of the just-released Star Quilts pattern book by C&T Publishing, will be on hand with some of her quilts and autographing her book at the show on the first weekend only: Saturday, March 16 and Sunday, March 17.
Knapp will present a free, limited-seating “Uniquely You” lecture at 1:30pm on Saturday, March 16. She will offer a design class on Saturday at 3pm for $5. The class is limited to 20 participants based on first-come, first-serve registrations upon arrival at the show’s admission table. Class materials will be provided.
As a preview of the international Vineyards, Fields, Farms and Foods theme for the 2014 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show, lifelong quilter Louise Furber of Phelps, NY, has loaned two of her agricultural theme quilts. The works are based on photos taken by her husband David along the 518-mile Great Lakes Seaway Trail that leisurely meanders along the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie in New York and Pennsylvania.
The 2013 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show also has new hours: Saturdays 10am-5pm and Sundays 12-4pm. Ticket prices are $7 seniors, $8 adults. Visitors should begin their experience at the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center at 401 W. Main Street.
Learn more and find entry guidelines online at www.seawaytrail.com/quilting.