Lola Jenkins ? an up-and-coming, award-winning quilter from central Oklahoma ? is the featured speaker at the Sept. meeting of the Walnut Valley Quilters Guild.
Jenkins will at Arkansas City’s First United Methodist Church Sept. 14 for presentations at 1 p.m. And 6:30 p.m. Guild members and visitors are invited to attended.
Jenkins ? who is in just her fourth year of sewing ? has quickly earned a number of awards for her art quilts. Her first showing was at the Central Oklahoma Quilt Guild Show in June 2007.
There she won second place for art quilt of Ray Charles and also took home three honorable mentions. Two months later she entered the Centennial State Fair of Oklahoma show and won best of show, along with earning eight other top three finishes.
She was featured artist at the 2008 Winter quilt show in Oklahoma City.
Jenkins was born and raised in Stockton, Calif. Following a tour of duty in the military she earned her degree from Austin Peay University and got a master’s from Bellevue University in Nebraska.
After the death of her parents and husband and nearly the loss of her own life, Jenkins’ declares her only solace came from God. She believes that God gave her quilting revelations.
"I don’t know the rules, so I can’t break the rules of quilting," she said.
The church is located at 2446 Edgemont Dr.