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EDITOR Growing up, my parents always wanted me to be involved in something I was passionate about. From a young age, I wanted to be immersed in anything that brought out my creative side. Whether that was through painting, writing, singing or dancing, I adored it all. In high school, I somehow found my way into student media and knew I never wanted out. Storytelling is my biggest passion. When I developed the theme, tools of the trade, my goal was to find and tell the stories of people in the Waco community with passion for their craft. Writers and photographers for Focus Magazine found unique stories from people who hone in on their craft. Thank you so much for taking the time to sit down and flip through this magazine. I can only hope you enjoy it as much as I do. It has been a pleasure creating this.
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Matti PEnnington Special thanks to jUlie Reed Bruce Gietzen Jim Anderson josh mcswain
Audrey La KJ Burkley Katelyn Patterson Victoria Fauntleroy
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BRIDGE OF SOULS An art installation creates a visual representation of how COVID-19 impacted McLennan County
Fashion
Fashion students reveal where they get their creative inspiration from.
Marksglass
A local dentist finds passion through stained-glass art.
Interior Design Learn what it takes to be an interior design major at Baylor.
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ART PRENTICE
An internship program that pairs high school students with local professional artists
Q&A
Art student shares what it is like pursuing a major in art at Baylor University.
diane rose
Artist quilts despite her lack of sight and gives all her glory to God.
get creative
Quick, easy crafts to get your creative juices flowing
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Story by Matti Pennington
Photos by Josh McSwain
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A visual representation of the impact of COVID-19 in McLennan County
n art installation that was in downtown Waco, known as the Bridge of Souls, created a visual representation of COVID-19’s impact in McLennan County. Six hundred colorful banners were displayed at Indian Spring Park from Oct. 15 to Nov. 20 to represent 600 of the lives lost due to COVID-19. As of Feb. 2, the death toll in McLennan County is 811. Cultural Arts of Waco and Creative Waco hope to do another phase of the exhibition this year to honor the remaining souls that exceeded the death toll of 600, as well as a event for the families to pick up banners. “We had schools visit and
church groups visit,” Doreen Ravenscroft said. “I want everyone who visited to feel the impact that COVID had on the Waco community. I think you can only feel it walking through it.” The idea came to mind when the president of Cultural Arts of Waco, Ravenscroft, was planning the Waco Cultural Arts Fest. The annual event is unique because it is six festivals all wrapped into one. The festival includes art, music, dance, science, word and film. “The construction fencing around the suspension bridge was not very conducive to an arts festival,” Ravenscroft said. “We knew we needed to put art up, so when Fiona Bond with Creative
Waco reached out about wanting to do an art project to honor those lost because of COVID-19, the idea fell into place.” After negotiating with the city, it was brought to the even organizers’ attention that Waco did not own the fencing; it belonged to the construction company, Sparks Engineering Inc. (Engineer of Record). “It was better to do a freestanding exhibition at the far end of Indian Spring Park,” Ravenscroft said. In July, the planning committee met and purchased the banners. “When we ordered 600 banners, there was a death total of around 440 people, and we never expected to use all of them,”
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Ravenscroft said. The name, Bridge of Souls, was decided by Bond and Ravenscroft. “The word souls represents all the souls lost in Waco,” Ravenscroft said. “These are people we did not know but were still the fabric of our community of McLennan County and of course Waco.” Cultural Arts Fest hired Carolina Huerta as the project manager. “Without Carolina and an amazing number of volunteers, we could not have gotten this project done, physically, in less than two months,” Ravenscroft said. Every banner includes a silhouette representing the person who died and was placed in order of death at the exhibition. “There were schools and artists that did the backgrounds,” Huerta said. “We believe that the arts are a powerful means to invite people together, and this was a way to acknowledge the lives that were lost and turn the data into a visual representation.” Waco Cultural Arts Fest and Creative Waco put together their list of artists in the area and sent out a call for volunteers. Once the artists were on board, they were asked to paint a background for their assigned person based on their age and gender. “At that time we had chosen eight different colors that each represented a different age group,” Ravenscroft said. “This was before we had to add an age group for the young babies that were lost before they were even born. They were lost in vitro.” Ravenscroft had a strong opinion about wanting the people to be in bright colors on the banners, not dull ones. “These people and the souls that we had lost were vibrant people that gave color to their families and to their friends, so we wanted everyone to see them in color and not as a sad gray color,” Ravenscroft said. Families also received an email asking if they would like to paint the background for their loved ones who were lost. “Between 20 and 30 of the banners were actually painted by the family,” Ravenscroft said. “The families also were able to decide if they wanted the name of the person to be placed on the banner or not.” The project ended up being a place where loved ones and family members had the chance to celebrate the lives of those they lost. “In the beginning stages of COVID, people were not allowed to have funerals because you did not want to be in crowds,” Huerta said. “This exhibition gave them a place where they could grieve.”
Arts are a powerful means to invite people together
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INSPIRING Fashion Fashion students find their inspirations from all over. Seniors Lexi Walters and Jordan Wilkins share where they get their creative inspiration from.
Baylor alum Anjelica Ray Anchterhof models one of the looks Wilkins created for the 2021 class Apparel Design and Product Development students’ fashion show and photo shoot. Wilkins created five looks with similar design elements to the one pictured.
“My design inspiration comes from many places. Other designers work helps get the ideas flowing but what works best for me is creating scenarios of where I am going to wear the garment and listen to music that corresponds with the event.” Jordan Wilkins
Photos courtesy of Jordan Wilkins and Lexi Walters
Tahlia Sisney models a blue cape designed by Walters. The cape was inspired by winter blues. This pattern includes covered snaps, jump hem, mandarin collar, feather stitching and color blocking.
Sisney models a Chanel-inspired tweed suit. Walters hand-drew the pattern, which includes lapel, faux buttons, welt pockets and paper bag lining.
“I get a lot of my creative inspiration from Pinterest. I love to look at everything from art, travel, other clothing designs and prints. I like to take the different aspects that I love in each and combine them into one garment.” Lexi Walters FOCUS MAGAZINE
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How a local dentist found his passion for stained-glass artistry
Story by KJ Burkley
Photos by Audrey La
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ark McCall, a steady force in Waco dentistry for the past three decades, displays his passion for stained glass
artistry. The 63-year-old dentist has now entered his 36th year of dental practice, and nearly two decades of creating stained glass artwork. McCall’s practice and caring outreach is what led him into the world of stained glass. “I had a patient that did stained glass,” McCall said. “Every time she would come in, I would always ask her many questions about it. Finally, she told me, ‘Mark, why don’t you just take a class and learn about it?’ I always thought that one day, when I retired from dentistry, I wanted to create stained-glass art. But she convinced me to start while I was still practicing.” McCall fell in love with the craftsmanship of stained glass. His hobby has produced colorful, original and inspired artworks. His work includes stained-glass guitar lamps, ceiling trimmings and portraits, all displaying a collection of vibrant colors, shapes and textures that illuminate a creative charm. One signature piece of McCall’s collection is a stained-glass guitar lamp. McCall says inspiration for this artwork came from researching ideas online, as well as his love for acoustic guitar music. “I saw some posts about these on Pinterest,” McCall said. “They were guitars that had been made into wall lamps. I ended up watching YouTube videos on how to take a guitar apart. Once I did that, I traced the guitar body so I could make the stained glass fit.” McCall draws from other sources for inspiration. Many of his artwork pieces feature aspects of dentistry, such as tooth and toothbrush stained-glass designs. McCall’s art also features other influential aspects of his life, such as God, biblical themes and his favorite sport: tennis. “Stained glass has always interested me,” McCall said. “I would go into church buildings, and I’d see pictures of cathedrals and castles in Europe with amazing stained glass works. I always wondered how stained glass is made and how the artist would craft in such a way. It’s always been a curiosity.”
McCall began to display art pieces in his dental office, along with making interior and exterior improvements to reflect a dental office with the aesthetic of hominess. The office displays many of McCall’s works, including stained-glass guitar lamps, sky lights, and ceiling beams. Most of McCall’s pieces include glass that varies in color and texture. With thousands of stainedglass choices, McCall must carefully choose what color and texture fits according to design and its overall appeal of the entire artwork. After designing the pattern, the next step is to trace the design on paper. This is followed by cutting the outline out, gluing the paper onto the glass selected for that piece, then cutting the glass. Once all the glass is cut, McCall uses the copper foil method, which is a copper foil strip with adhesive on one side. The foil is placed on the outside of each piece. Once all the pieces are foiled, they are placed and secured on the pattern. This is concluded with soldering the foil to keep every piece in place. This process can take hours, even weeks to produce a single piece. One medium-sized piece can be worth several hundred dollars, depending on the type of piece, glass used and labor. Between this and dentistry, McCall has yet to explore making stained-glass artwork for profit. “I’ve done very little commission work,” McCall said. “Most of the time, people don’t want to spend the kind of money that it takes for me to make a piece. It’s great gifts to my family and friends because they really appreciate my pieces.” Even without commission work, McCall still
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established an identity for his hobby. McCall’s niece came up with his hobby name, MarksGlass. McCall expanded publicity of his work online and has drawn much attention in the news world. The Waco Tribune-Herald featured McCall in a 2011 article about his artwork, and in the Spring of 2019, Texas Country Reporter covered McCall’s stained-glass vision. McCall was born in Abilene, and spent his grade school years in Roswell, New Mexico. McCall then found his way back to Texas for college, where he enrolled at Abilene Christian University. McCall graduated from Abilene Christian University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1980, where he also met and married his wife, Kim McCall, one year after graduating ACU. He said that he was undecided on a career when he went to college but was convinced by his friends and roommate to pursue dentistry. “I had not a clue of what I was going to do with my biology degree,” McCall said. “Several of my friends were pre-dental and got accepted into dental school. They asked me to apply to dental school, and I wasn’t sure. Then, my first roommate, who completed a year of dental school, came back to show me what they do in the lab. When I saw what he was doing, I thought this looked like something I would enjoy.” McCall went to graduate school at the University of Texas at Houston Dental Branch to earn his DDS in 1985. McCall said he always had an appreciation for artistry, whether it be through practicing dentistry or stained glass. The artistic process and vision for art is what grasped his attention during his last year at Abilene Christian. “In your first year of dental school, you make your own restorations,” McCall said. “You make your own crowns and your own inlays and onlays. You wax them up and cast them to shape their appearance. When I got to experience this, I realized that dentistry is a craft, it’s an art. The process of waxing up, casting and fabricating the restoration was the experience I enjoyed the most.” After graduating from dental school, McCall joined an existing practice in Waco. After a year and a half of being an associate, he partnered with Dr. David Rhoden to practice together over the next decade. In 1997, McCall and Rhoden dissolved the partnership to allow them to build their own individual practices, which eventually led him into Biomimetic dentistry. Columbus Avenue Smiles continues to provide complete dental care to the city of Waco in the exact same buildings when McCall came to Waco. When starting his solo practice, McCall’s wife, Kim McCall, aided him in bridging the aspect of dental care in a manner that is caring of its patients and appreciative of the arts as a dental office manager. Kim McCall said she had little experience in that area when McCall went solo but was ready to help shape McCall’s vision of great dental care and artistic vision. “I remember when I first started working with McCall at the office,” Kim McCall said, “The building looked very clinical. Everything was gray, and the furniture was old and shabby. I told Mark if I work here, it needs to look nice. I wanted the office to look and feel warm and inviting, as if we were inviting people into our home. That’s when we got the idea of a comfortable environment that incorporated the authenticity of Mark’s art.”
My career has given me the opportunity to enjoy everything I love
Running a full-time practice and creating stainedglass pieces demands long hours of commitment and patience from McCall. McCall said that creating ideas, finding glass, and the process to craft pieces can take a long time. “The entire process is very time-consuming,” McCall said. “It’s not extremely difficult, but a good challenge can be the designing stage. You have to figure out what type of piece you want and what glass you want to use. It takes a ton of time and demands you to have a vision for what you want.” Although both careers are laborious, Kim McCall says McCall balances both graciously because he enjoys spending much of his time and energy crafting art in both ways. “He’s very good at both dentistry and stained glass,” Kim McCall said. “I think it’s great for him to do stained glass because it’s an extension of his artistic side, along with dentistry. Stained glass gives him more space to be expressive and creative. He’ll turn on music in his glass workshop at home and he will spend hours working away on a project. It’s a good outlet for him.” Nearing his 40th year anniversary in dentistry, McCall continues to display his artwork through the smiles of people and stained glass artistry. McCall said he considers one day moving to committing full time to his craft, as well as doing other hobbies that have inspired his artwork over the years. “I would most definitely take MarksGlass on full time,” McCall said. “I would do everything I love. I would do stained glass more, play tennis, and just enjoy life. I think that my career has given me the opportunity to enjoy everything I love with and through each other, and to experience it with the people I love most.”
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eing an interior design major is so much more than picking paint colors, fabrics and making a space look nice. We are flattered when you ask us for design advice, but there is so much more to us than that. Since I am a highly creative person, I knew I needed to choose a career path that allowed me to express my creativity or else I would just be miserable. When I saw Baylor offered interior design as a major, I knew this was God’s calling to me. It wasn’t until I got here, however, that I realized this major was a lot more than I anticipated. I also realized that many wouldn’t understand this, either. Whenever I tell someone that I am an interior design major, the usual response is, “Oh, that’s so fun.” But I have in the past gotten some offensive responses, such as, “So you’re majoring in picking fabrics.” Here I am today to tell you that it is actually not all that fun at times and no, I am not majoring in picking fabrics. I am majoring in ensuring you can safely exit a building, making sure your handicapped loved ones can efficiently move throughout a space, being knowledgeable on how the different light temperatures affect your mental health, and so much more to guarantee you have the greatest quality of life inside a space. Yes, we pick paint colors, but we must be taught color theory because color plays a huge role in mental health. We aren’t just able to pick blue because we like blue. We must think about who the users of the space are and from there we decide what is best suited for the space. So next time you find yourself in a hospital, look around. Look at the exit signs and where they are placed because we spent countless hours planning out where to put them to best ensure your safety. Look at the flooring material next and know we chose this material because we are thinking of the users. The flooring is slip resistant. It will have a sufficient softness percentage because we must consider the doctors and nurses who are on their feet all
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day, so it will absorb noise to ensure you are at peace while being a patient. It is easy to clean because the cleanliness of a hospital and keeping it sanitized is crucial to the safety of some patients, and while I can go on I will stop there. The design process begins with research because it is crucial that we know everything possible about a project and its components. It is the time where we freshen up our knowledge of building codes, fire codes, etc., but keep in mind that each state has its own set of building and fire codes, so that is why research is so crucial. Then comes space planning, which consists of creating what we call bubble and block diagrams. From there, we start to put it into our desired program of either AutoCAD or Revit. However, do not just think we create a single floor plan and that’s it. We then take that floor plan and make a furniture plan, reflected ceiling plan, safety plan, and elevations of the space. From there, I like to put my plan into a program called Sketchup. I then spend countless hours finding my finishes and furnishings and creating a 3D picture of how the space will be. From there, a program called Enscape makes it come to life, as if it were a place I could physically go to. This is my favorite part of the process because it just makes all the hard work worth it. I hope the next time you meet an interior design major, you acknowledge
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that it is not an easy major. I’ve watched as my former classmates have dropped the program because they just couldn’t handle it anymore. The multiple all-nighters, having no storage space left on our laptops, the endless hours of studying codes, and all being absolute perfectionists are going to be so worth it.
RIOR DESIGNER Pictured are three conference rooms Victoria Fauntleroy designed for a Keenland office project.
Story by Victoria Fauntleroy
Photos by Victoria Fauntleroy
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Story by Matti Pennington
Photos by Josh McSwain
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RTPrenticeship is a paid internship program that pairs students from Waco ISD with local professional artists. Together, they create works of art throughout Waco that reflect the community’s history, aspirations and beauty. “The program allows [the apprentices] to work through a creative project from concept to completion,” program director Stefanie Wheat says. “In that, they get to build their professional networking skills; they get to be mentored by local artists and get that one-on-one engagement that can hopefully allow them to see what it is like to have a creative career in our community.” Wheat has been with the program since Creative Waco brought it to the community in the summer of 2018. “We partner with local businesses and organizations to create murals,” Wheat says. “They would donate the wall, and we would raise funds in order to pay our artist, our apprentices and cover our supplies.” The first mural, created back in 2018 is located at Second Street and Jackson Avenue, is called “1000 Hopes for Waco.” The mural is of bright-colored origami cranes transforming into a light blue living crane flying over a dark blue river. The cranes are symbols of a bright and hopeful future for the Waco community. In 2019, “The Color of Health” and “The Spirit of We” murals were created to reflect the work being done within the historical community. “The Color of Health” was painted on the side of Family Health Center: MLK Jr. Community Clinic, 1911 North M.L.K. Jr. Blvd. The mural combines different themes the apprentices came up with after listening to community leaders share their opinions about the clinic’s neighborhoods. It includes multiple black and white fruits next to a woman surrounded by vibrant colors. “The Spirit of We” is painted on the side of Brotherwell Brewing, 400 East Bridge Street. It is an abstract piece of artwork that includes numerous colors and rhythms. “We are stronger when we rise together,” lead designer of “The Spirit of We” Richard C. Thomas says. “Together, we grow our families, our businesses, our faith, our quality of life and our community. Every man, woman and child is tied together in our shared destiny. What affects one affects all. We are on the move, and together we shall rise. This is ‘The Spirit of We.’” The program focused mainly on creating large-scale outdoor murals for the first three years, but it has evolved over time. “Those first couple of years were a fantastic experience, but we always said that ARTPrenticeship should go across all artistic mediums,” Wheat said. “In 2020, we not only did our largest mural to date for TFNB Your Bank for Life on Elm Avenue, but we also did a film component.” Four audio film students from Waco ISD partnered with a local film mentor, Andreas Zaloumis, and created a seven-minute short film about the process of putting together the “Tree of Life” located at 715 Elm Avenue. “That mural was cool to do because I went to school right across the street from that bank, and that place historically has not had banks or places that could give people loans to buy houses and have a place to store their money,” apprentice Tahlia Tran said. “I really enjoyed it because it was my first piece of art that was public where everyone could see it, and you also get to meet a bunch of people who do art professionally.”
The “Tree of Life” mural represents unity in community, wisdom and understanding. The wall is divided into seven panels for the seven days of the week. Vincent Thomas and Cade Kegerreis were the lead designers. “The film really reflected on the community engagement aspect of the program,” Wheat says. “This year, we are repeating that. We have another mural we are doing but also hiring another four more audiovisual students to create another short film.” This year the short film will highlight the scope of ARTPrenticeship and what the program is all about. “It is basically giving them the experience of what it is like to do a long-
ARTPrenticeship is partnering with the Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute to paint their fifth mural.
form commercial or promotional reel,” Wheat says. Fourteen apprentices are rising juniors and seniors from Waco ISD. Wheat said Creative Waco could jump headfirst into ARTPrenticeship thanks to Waco ISD already having an established summer internship program and helping them with the hiring process. “We have been very fortunate to have Waco ISD as a partner over these first couple of years as we have grown out the program,” Wheat says. “We are now at a point where we are starting to expand out and look for partners who will help us grow the program so that we can hire from different school districts and even hire students from private schools and
home school students.” This year ARTPrenticeship is partnering with the Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute. “After having a great experience last year, I decided I wanted to be a part of ARTPrenticeship again,” Tran said. “Now we are doing a mural at the Dr Pepper Museum. It is a very similar experience, but every year they add more things, and the program gets stronger.” Digital and comic book artist Rajesh Solanki became one of the three mentors this year. “Prior to me being involved, I saw that the Dr Pepper Museum was having artists pitch their designs for a possible mural,” Solanki said. “I submitted a design to be
considered, and mine was not ultimately chosen, but Stefanie found me and told me I should apply to be a mentor. The kids are actually executing the winner of the design contest for the Dr Pepper Museums’ mural.” Since becoming a mentor, Solanki says he wants to be someone his apprentices can reach out to for help on any aspect of life, not only their art. “It’s really cool working with high school students because you get a mix of those who are super enthusiastic about their art and others who are still working to figure out what their talents are,” Solanki says. “My job is to find out what the best approach to mentor each of them is.”
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What is your major and what made you choose it? I am a studio art major pursuing my bachelor’s degree. I chose this major because I am passionate about art and enjoy making it. What is it like being an art student at Baylor? Being an art student at Baylor has its own challenges. It is very time consuming and it is sometimes difficult to get the classes I need or want because the department is so small. With that being said, I also love the fact that it is small because I get to have close relationships with my peers and one-on-one conversations with my professors. What art class has been you favorite and why? My favorite art class has been oil painting. I have always loved painting, but this class challenged me to use a larger scale for my work and create my own still life subjects. What professor has impacted you the most and why? The professor that impacted me the most was my painting professor, Professor Winter Rusioski. She is always so helpful and encouraging. She genuinely cares about us as students while pushing us to be better artists. What do you plan to do with your art major once you graduate? When I graduate in May, I plan to work as an art instructor part time and continue to do my own freelance work.
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DIANe ROSE Artist shares how God has blessed her with creative talent despite losing her eyesight
Story by Katelyn Pattterson
Photos by Josh McSwain
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iane Rose quilts because God blessed her without a talent. She was born with glaucoma, which left her vision-impaired, but not without light perception and color until 1984. That year, four days before a cornea transplant, her cornea ruptured, fell to the back of her eye and killed the optic nerve. As a result, she is totally blind. “I was never treated like a blind person or act like one, so don’t ask me to do what society expects,” Rose said. “It ain’t gonna happen in this lifetime.” Even without sight, Rose was heavily involved in the Nashville music scene as a journalist covering the various aspects of, and personalities in, country music. “1988 was when I learned to quilt,” Rose said. “I think it was in ‘85, an evangelist came to the church. I got tired of always going to church and people would say, ‘Oh, let’s pray for your eyes.’ There are other things in my life that can be prayed for.” “The guy walked up, and he said, ‘I want to pray for you,’” Rose said. “I kind of stepped back, and he went, ‘Not for your eyes. God is telling me that he is going to bless you with a talent that is colorful. It won’t be given to you right now, but you will know about it when you start doing it. You will be well-known throughout the world, and you will stand in front of dignitaries, princes, kings, queens, governors and presidents. This talent will be all over the world. It will be prayed over and you will create it and be able to teach other people with disabilities to create and bless others.’”
And create she did. Since August 14, 1998, Rose has made 1,100 quilts. She has sold quilts to country music legends such as Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn, along with former president George W. Bush. She also presented a baby quilt to Prince William and Kate, before Prince George was born, while she was visiting England. “The [quilts] are prayed over,” Rose said. “I’ve had many people that were sick and dying that wanted my quilt over them as they went to heaven.” “You start with your imagination, or you start with a regular quilt pattern,” Rose said. “All quilt patterns are in print, or I can listen to a video on my computer that has the speech program.” The “Harvest Moon” quilt that Rose made came completely from her imagination. “I thought, ‘A moon with a dark sky and then have some pumpkins, a hayride and a campfire, that would be cool,’” Rose said. “You could do the process of quilting in several different ways,” Rose said. “A lot of people will do appliqués on the sewing machine. I
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the dark hand appliqué.” An appliqué is needlework where pieces of fabric are sewn or stuck onto a larger piece of fabric to form pictures or patterns. Rose has an Accucut machine that she uses to cut shapes out of fabric for her quilts. Stephanie Wright met Rose when she was a student at Baylor. She said Rose is someone who bounces back quickly, and she has tried to take that on herself from Rose. “What started out as a once-a-week volunteer thing very quickly turned into a friendship,” Wright said. “She definitely feels more like family to me now. She’s just such a warm, caring person. From the time that I met her, she just absolutely welcomed me into her home with open arms and was always so interested in what was going on with me personally. I’ve always admired the way she’s always persisted and has never let anything get her down for long.” Rose sells her quilts and other items to make a living for herself. She is also a motivational speaker, evangelist and teacher. Diane Rose Ministries is dedicated to weaving her passion and hope into discouraged hearts. Rose and her ministry are in the process of building the Faith House, a home for people with disabilities to live, learn to sew and quilt and develop strength, courage, commitment and self-reliance. “Anything that she sets her mind to doing, she’s going to accomplish,” Melissa Lewis, a friend of Rose’s, said. “Being blind has definitely not held her back. The way I look at it, if I can do what I have done, without sight, how much can you do?” Rose asks. Rose is available for speaking and teaching and sharing her life experiences with all organizations, quilt guilds, churches, community organizations, or business functions. She is also looking for donations toward the construction of the Faith House. More information can be found on her website: theamazingquilter.com.
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