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In 1982, Anne Maillette and her family moved to Eagle River, Wisconsin to enjoy a simpler life. The months of winter posed a challenge for Anne in keeping her family warm. To enjoy the winter season, one had to dress appropriately. In response, Anne began to knit wool sweaters and accessories which enabled her husband and three girls to call winter their favorite season. What began as a hobby became a cottage industry. In 1988, Annies Woolens was established with wool sweaters, earflap hats, and mittens as the featured products. By 1994, after years of selling knitted wool sweaters and accessories locally at art shows and through gift shops, Anne gambled on a move to the Internet which has since enabled her to share her wares with many thousands of website visitors and customers around the globe. More recently Anne has moved beyond knitting wool garments... Wanting to make Christmas special for her immediate and extended family, she began to knit Christmas Stockings. Weddings and births were celebrated and marked with the making of a stocking to welcome the new addition to her family. Wanting to share her love of family with many others, Anne decided to make Personalized Christmas Stockings her main product. To date, Annies Woolens has sold thousands of Christmas Stockings which have been shipped to all parts of the world with the wish that others might celebrate family in their own special way by including Annies Woolens personalized stockings as part of their tradition. In order to promote the knitting craft and her own love of knitting, Anne has developed her own line of knitting patterns and kits. The joys and challenges of writing and publishing Annies Woolens designs not only serves Annes need for creative birthing of a new idea but also hopefully stimulates existing knitters as well as attracting new knitters. Anne has long been a contributing member of the fiber arts world. She is a longstanding member of the local Fiber Arts Guild, Lake Country Weavers and Fiber Artists, where she shares her talents and receives inspiration from her artist colleagues. Anne loves to keep the learning curve on an incline. She has gone to a number of Wisconsin area knitting retreats and regularly attends classes at Stitches Midwest Retail Convention in Chicago where she also sells her patterns and kits.

 

Address: 1668 Watersmeet Lake Rd. Eagle River, Wisconsin 54521
Website: http://www.annieswoolens.com/