Jo Anna began quilting 11 years ago but has always sewed. She was a tailor and a sewer and began sewing in 4H in junior high school. Jo Anna’s mother, even though she hated home-made anything – bought Jo Anna a sewing machine.
Joining Kathy’s class around 2000, she took baby-beginners but never finished the quilt. She didn't like the colors and finally donated the UFOs to a guild.
Kathy and her two boys used to shop in Jo Anna’s store, but didn’t remember her when Jo Anna joined San Lorenzo Adult School.
When she learned she was having a grandchild, a friend insisted Jo Anna make a quilt for the new baby. Pink quilt is not her color but she made a pink and purple – baby-doll – quilt for the new granddaughter. After finishing that quilt, Jo Anna joined Kathy’s class.
She loves to bake but doesn’t enjoy cooking. However, her husband and her mother-in-law really like to eat so, Jo Anna cooks. Her favorite thing to do is make chocolate chip cookies and her oldest granddaughter comes to help her bake cookies. Married for 47 years, Jo Anna has been cooking and cleaning and doing all the wifely chores for Ron – the father of her two boys. Some of her other hobbies are gardening and reading – Civil War books. (Civil war quilting books, histories, biographies).
Jo Anna is one of our long-arm quilters – working for 7 ½ years. It was an easy transition from piecing to long-arm quilting and she loves every minute of it. She grew up in Castro Valley and lives right around the corner from her old homestead.
A little known fact – Jo Anna is a tap-dancer, having tapped for eight years. She dances at “Bedazzled” dance school in San Leandro.
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