Saturday at Savannah Center, where hundreds of quilts will be on display, including pieced, appliqu/, mixed techniques, traditional, contemporary, innovative design, challenge quilts and wearable art. Guests to the show will be able to buy items at the boutique; participate in a ticket drawing for a “Flowers in Bloom” quilt to benefit Wildwood Soup Kitchen; and bid in the silent auction, where proceeds will go to Villagers for Hospice. He now shares his passion for quilting with the younger generation — 14 students, 10 of them boys — in the Quilting and Beading Club at South Sumter Middle School in Webster, where Comer is a science teacher. The portrait quilt will be one of three quilts that Whitehead will have on display at the “Showcase of Quilts” event Friday and Saturday at Savannah Center. The first time she experienced being in the local quilt show, Whitehead won a “Viewers’ Choice Award” for her “Baltimore Album Quilt.

The Manchester Library is located at 21 Colonial Drive, Manchester. Debbi Quinn will present effective ways to use aromatherapy to open and enhance the chakras. The film tells the story of Sophie, a young woman who is attempting to find her biological father on the eve of her wedding. By reading her mother’s diary, she discovers that her father is one of three men; she secretly invites all three to the wedding. Jon Turk will present a program which is part performance and part lecture. Work on individual and group projects, share ideas and techniques, tell stories through their quilting patterns and conversations and form friendships.

PIECING IT TOGETHER Wahoo Elementary fourth graders Emma Hastings and Alex Wagner watch as classmate Carleigh Olson rolls out her section of the paper Nebraska History Quilt they made on Jan. Members of Krazy Quilters presented their Nebraska History Quilt to the students who are studying Nebraska history. The Krazy Quilters of Saunders County presented their quilt depicting the history of Nebraska to the students on Jan. According to fourth grade teacher Laurie Pearson, the quilt gave the students a different avenue for learning Nebraska history rather than just reading about it in a book. According to Krazy Quilter’s president Rose Rosengren of Colon, she and another member belong to the Nebraska State Quilt Guild and the history quilt is something the guild was promoting. After the quilt was presented to the students, the three sections of fourth graders returned to their rooms to make their own Nebraska history paper quilts.

The cameo quilt was accepted for show in the world-renown American Quilter’s Society Paducah Quilt Show in Tennessee. Westbrook teaches several classes at the Sewing Room including landscaping; Dresden plate (a traditional quilt pattern); beginning, intermediate and advanced machine quilting; and McTavishing, a method of background quilting. She has become known for her trapunto quilting - a machine method that results in sculpted raised portions of the quilt. Westbrook’s daughter has learned to quilt, and the two belong to Sew-Ciety, a Redding quilt group.

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