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Sew In Love: Quilters hang together by many threads
Left, Debbie Scarimbolo, president of the Bulloch Hall Quilt Guild, with the quilt she’d just completed after 24 years. She took it to the show-and-tell portion of the guild’s January meeting. Top, from left, Holly Anderson and Barbara “Berber” Debolt, co-chairs of the 38th Annual Bulloch Hill Quilt Show, display the raffle quilt for the March 6-15 show. The 2020 raffle quilt is a modern patchwork quilt featuring black and white prints and bright batiks. The king size quilt was pieced by Bulloch Hall Quilt Guild members.
By Donna Williams Lewis Debbie Scarimbolo has always been enamored with fabric. As a child, she spent her summers making clothes for the next school year. As a home economics teacher, she taught her students to make quilts for infants in need as a class project. Today, she is president of the Bulloch Hall Quilt Guild, a group
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at capacity with 65 members and a waiting list. It’s one of dozens of guilds across metro Atlanta that draw quilters together for fellowship, skill sharing, community service and the allure of the ever-evolving craft. It’s show time for the Bulloch Hall guild, which is based in Roswell at the childhood home of Mittie Bulloch, the mother of
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Bottom, Bulloch Hall’s 38th Annual Quilt Show, “Inspired by Endangered Species,” takes place March 6-15 at the historic house museum in Roswell. The show is presented by the Bulloch Hall Quilt Guild.
President Theodore Roosevelt. From March 6-15, the guild will host Bulloch Hall’s 38th Annual Quilt Show, a commissioned show entitled “Inspired by Endangered Species.” More than 180 quilts depicting animals and plants from the collection of Virginia-based quilter
Donna DeSoto will fill the historic house museum. Also on display will be a raffle quilt for charity that was created by the Bulloch Hall Quilt Guild. Bulloch Hall’s quilt shows alternate each year between traveling shows, such as the current one, and shows featuring
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