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Texas’ Incredible Blind Quilter Will Inspire You to Follow Your Talents

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Diane Rose is an amazing quilter. With her total quilt count rising upward of 1,000, would you guess that these quilts were beautifully fashioned from a woman that cannot see?

Well, Diane Rose is more than just Texas’ famous blind quilter — she’s also an extremely inspiring individual who consistently is reaching out to her community and family to lift them up and push them to achieve their own goals.

When glaucoma halted her vision and later, an unfortunate accident struck her blind in 1984, Diane began to look for a way to find her talent. She says that she asked God for guidance, and immediately felt her fingertips go warm, signaling that her true power was in her hands. And it was.

She learned how to quilt from a friend, and has since created beautiful masterpieces that even the most skilled, sighted quilters cannot compare to. Even before her quilting journey began, she was already making waves in the country music community by working as a journalist in Nashville.

Through that career, she met the likes of Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, among countless other stars. In fact, her website even says that she has sold quilts to “Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Ralph Emery.”

Regardless of Diane’s famous track record, though, it is her motivating story that makes her such an inspiring figure in today’s society that is so often complacent. She is famous for asking, “The way I look at it, if I can do what I have done, without sight, how much can you do?”