Members of the Busy Body Quilters club at Montegut Middle School pose for a picture with their creations. In 2003, then fifth-graders Alicia Bergeron and Kimberly Naquin convinced their teacher, Anne Hitt, to start a quilting club. Hitt recently took 60 of her students to view an exhibit at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library featuring five quilts her students made. Since the club began, students have hand sewn and stuffed more than 15,000 squares, according to Hitt. Two of her students, Heather Himel and Aryn Bergeron, Alicia’s younger sister, designed a quilt for the State BETA Club Convention held in Lafayette a few weeks ago.

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