Seaway Trail Quilt Show features digitally designed works

SACKETS HARBOR — "Piecing with Pixels: Unique Quilts from Your Own Images" authors Gudny Campbell and Sandra Hart are sending 10 of their digitally designed quilted works to the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show set for Saturday and Sunday in Sackets Harbor. The works feature circular patterns and pieces to fit the show theme of "Circles and Wheels on the Byway."

Ms. Campbell is a retired Navy computer specialist and Ms. Hart is a digital quilting expert.

The pair uses Photoshop computer software to digitally piece traditional blocks of patterns and landscapes, create original appliqué designs and print fabrics with photo and art images used in uncommon ways. They transfer snapshots to fabric using an inkjet copier or printer and commercially printed fabrics that are placed into either traditional quilt block or free-form design quilts. They have exhibited their quilts at international quilt and art museums.

The annual Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show fills three floors at the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center at the historic former Union Hotel, Ray and Main streets, in the village of Sackets Harbor.

Other featured works at the 2010 show will be quilts by quilter Dyan Swamp of Dreamcrafters Quilt Shop on the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, designer Mary Knapp of Watertown, and Norah Meeking whose Bella Bella quilts are based on Italian mosaic floors.

Quilting demonstrations, vendors, and the Fort Drum Chapter of Operation Kid Comfort quilt project are also show participants. The $5 admission benefits the Seaway Trail Foundation. The Orleans County Country Barn Quilt Trail is a show sponsor. For more information call the center at 646-1000.