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.

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