GLIN==> News release: Byway inspires quilt designer: New patterns debut at March 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail show

PRESS RELEASE: February 2, 2010
Contact:  Teresa Mitchell, 315-646-1000

Jpg available: New Captain¹s Wheel quilt pattern by designer Mary Knapp
 
Byway Inspires Quilt Designer Patterns to Debut at March 2010 Great Lakes
Seaway Trail Show

Sackets Harbor, NY - Award-winning quiltmaker Mary Knapp of Watertown, NY,
has been designing with the Great Lakes Seaway Trail byway in mind again.

A quilt with Knapp¹s six new quilt block patterns will be on display at the
March 20-21, 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show & Challenge at the
Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY. The patterns fit the
show¹s 2010 Circles and Wheels theme and will be available on the first-ever
Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show CD.
 
Knapp¹s wall hanging with the ³Captain¹s Wheel,² ³Pinwheel,² ³Wagon Wheel,²
³Up in the Air,² ³Big Wheel,² and ³Life Saver³ will be on display at the
show. 
 
The patterns for the six designs will be included on a CD with photos of the
show¹s display-only and competition quilts. Sales of the CD will benefit the
nonprofit Seaway Trail Foundation.
 
Knapp¹s patterns represent the Great Lakes Seaway Trail travel themes of
sailing, boating, agricultural bounty, water recreation, and aviation
history (one of the byway¹s attractions is the Niagara Aerospace Museum in
Niagara Falls, once home of the world¹s largest aircraft plant and an
aircraft and aerospace industry center).
 
The 2010 edition is the 10th annual Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show.
Quilters may submit work for display-only or for Viewer¹s Choice voting for
$500 in prizes. Each accepted entry receives a Great Lakes Seaway Trail
gift. 
 
A special award will be presented to the quilt that best captures the
³Circles and Wheels on the Byway² theme. The show entry form is online at
www.seawaytrail.com.
 
Knapp¹s first commercially-sold designs feature Great Lakes Seaway Trail
historic lighthouses in quilt patterns and on notecards. Visitors to the
2008 show received a free copy of Knapp¹s design of a birding theme quilt
block pattern.
 
Knapp is a retired Watertown High School biology teacher and president of
the North Country Quilt Guild. Her quilts have won awards at such
prestigious shows as the Vermont Quilt Festival, the American Quilters
Society Quilt Show in Paducah, Kentucky, and the Schweinfurth Memorial Art
Gallery Show in Auburn, NY, just south of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
byway. 
 
Knapp says, ³I enjoy the opportunity to collaborate with the Great Lakes
Seaway Trail to create patterns that tell the story of the fabulous natural,
recreational and cultural resources of the byway region and are patterns
that quilters can easily adapt with colors and fabrics to their personal
stories of exploration.²
 
Other featured quilters at the Great Lakes Seaway Trail show include Bella
Bella Quilts author Norah McMeeking of California and Dyan Swamp of
Dreamcrafters Quilt Shop of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation in Hogansburg, NY.
 
Quilting demonstrators, vendors, and the Fort Drum Chapter of Operation Kid
Comfort project that makes quilts for military families are also show
participants. 
 
The Orleans County Country Barn Quilt Trail of Western NY, a 22-mile loop
tour off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail byway with more than 40 barns with
hand-painted quilt block patterns, is a co-sponsor of the show.
 
Call 315-646-1000 for more information. #



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