August 21, 2012 -- Due to the popularity
of the traveling exhibit of historic-style quilts selected from the spring
Great Lakes Seaway Trail War of 1812 Quilt Show, the call is going out for
1812-style fabric works of art for a reprise event titled Great Lakes Seaway
Trail 1812 ½.
The Great Lakes Seaway
Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY, will host the show September
29-30, 2012.
Show Manager Lynette
Lundy-Beck is asking quilters who enjoyed making a quilt for the spring event;
those who wanted to, but didn’t; and those who may have started, but did not
finish an entry for the spring show to enter the fall exhibit.
“We are extending the
excitement about the historic-style quilts in conjunction with New York State’s
Official Day of Commemoration of the War of 1812 with this 1812 ½ exhibit,”
Lundy-Beck says.
“The 26 quilts, by
American and Canadian quilters, plus four new Great Lakes Seaway Trail
educational interpretive panels about the War will be on display with new works
by quilters who want to be part of this continuing celebration of our National
Scenic Byway’s history and cultural storytelling tradition,” Lundy-Beck adds.
The show’s relaxed
entry guidelines include accepting quilt tops using 1812-true patterns, colors and fabrics
along with any completed quilts. Entry deadline is September 21.
The show will include
vendors and encouragement for entries for the March 2013 Great Lakes Seaway
Trail Quilt Show with an international “Beauty of the Byways” theme.
An 1812 theme Great
Lakes Seaway Trail walking event, sanctioned by the American Volkssport
Association, will take place starting with 8:30am registration at the September 29 at the Great
Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center.
For more information
on the 1812 ½ Quilt Show, contact Lundy-Beck at 315-646-1000 x203, lynette@seawaytrail.com,
www.1812quiltchallenge.blogspot.com.
To participate in the
September 29 Great Lakes Seaway Trail 1812 Walking Event, contact Great Lakes
Seaway Trail Volkssport Association President Daryl Giles at 315-646-1000 x200,
daryl@seawaytrail.com.
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