Quilt fund-raiser to benefit Trinity Lutheran youth

January 15, 2013

Trinity Lutheran Youth Sponsor Robin Oblander (left) and her daughter, Beth, show the quilt that the youth group is going to be giving away. The quilt, made with Christian t-shirts, was done by D’Anne King of Guymon. Courtesy photo

“The things we have … The ones we love … are special blessings … from above!” This is one of the sayings on a recent Christian quilt crafted by D’Anne King of Guymon.
Sixteen t-shirts make up the large quilt. All 16 shirts have a Christian logo or saying on it, with the denominations taken off.
“I went into thrift stores and found the shirts,” explains the vivacious quilter. “I love going into thrift stores.”
The beautiful quilt was lovingly crafted by King, who had it machine quilted by Sisters Quilting in Hooker. The same quilt is going to be a fund raiser for the Trinity Lutheran Youth Group to raise money to attend their youth conference in San Antonio.
Not quite two years ago, King attended a class taught by Connie Fischer and Dianna Jenkins as one of the Main Street Epic Saturday classes. King had never quilted before, but she enjoyed doing many crafts and did know how to sew.
She left the class and gathered t-shirts of her son-in-laws, Henry Cobbs, who is a coach in McKinney, Texas. He graduated from Oklahoma Panhandle State University, so the entire quilt was comprised of OPSU shirts. The quilt, which will fit a king bed, has shirts she found at the thrift store and the OPSU bookstore to fill in those she already had.
“I enjoy the crafting that goes into telling a story,” says King with a grin. “And I love the smiles and tears when someone gets their quilt.”
That project completed, she next took her daughters baby blanket that was made by her grandmother and did a regular sized quilt.
Thirdly her granddaughter, Aspen Harvey, who graduated from Tyrone was the recipient. This quilt has beautiful, bright t-shirts that make up the large quilt.
The recent quilt made for her daughter, Shana Cobbs, really tells the story of her life. King searched two weeks for photos that went with the t-shirts and has them sewn on the appropriate shirts. Cobbs, a Guymon high school graduate has shirts with photos from her time as a Tiger cheerleader, there are shirts with photos of her as a child, then attending OPSU, her marriage, honeymoon (yes, a shirt from their honeymoon to Mexico), children, and more. The quilt is rich with who Shana is.
“If you know D’Anne,” said one friend from church, “you know that if she does something, it is going to be done well.”
If you would like to buy a $2 chance on the quilt, which is to be given away on Feb. 3, contact the Trinity Lutheran Youth Sponsor Robin Oblander at 580-651-1291.
The purpose of the Epic Saturday classes are several, but they include teaching the crafts of our heritage, including quilting. The classes can also be a time that enhances a retail business, such as Sisters Quilting. Looking at what King has accomplished in the past year and almost another, it shows that the T-Shirt Quilting Class taught by Fischer and Jenkins was a sure – fire success.