Press Release: March 23, 2010
Contact: Teresa Mitchell, 315-646-1000
Wayne County Quilters Exhibit Works at National Quilting Weekend Show
Contact: Teresa Mitchell, 315-646-1000
Wayne County Quilters Exhibit Works at National Quilting Weekend Show
 Louise Furber's "Pumpkins on a Cart" quilt |
 Sandra McGee's "Mariner's Tribute" quilt |
Sackets Harbor, NY – Two Wayne County quilters sent their works of fabric art to the Circles and Wheels on the Byway Quilt Show at the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY, for National Quilting Day weekend.
Quilter Louise Furber of Phelps, NY, exhibited her lovely original design “Pumpkins on a Cart” wallhanging. Furber, Phelps Library Director, machine quilted the pumpkins and wagon representative of the many fall season farm markets displays seen along the 518-mile America’s Byway that parallels the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes shorelines of New York and Pennsylvania.
Sandra McGee of Ontario, NY, shared her Mariner’s Tribute at the 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show. She made the machine-pieced and hand-quilted full-size quilt for her son-in-law who is serving with the Sea Bees and currently deployed to Afghanistan. McGee says, “Having visited Sackets Harbor (known as a shipbuilding center during the War of 1812) on many occasions, I wanted to make a quilt that was suitable to represent a mariner along our Seaway Trail.”
To see the quilts selected as the Viewer’s Choice at the show, go online to the Seaway Trail Quilting Page. #