Annie Potter Presents

Annie Potter, known affectionately by most as simply, “Miss Annie”, was born in Ada, OK but was raised in Palco, a small town in KS, where her family moved when she was only 6 months old. Her father worked in the oil fields, and her mother was a member of the Ladies Missionary Society. While her older brother attended school at a one-room schoolhouse down the hill from their home, Annie would watch with fascination as her mother and the other ladies would quilt and sew, and at a very young age, she began to develop a love for needlecraft, especially crochet. When some children might have been setting up lemonade stands, delivering newspapers, or mowing lawns to earn spending money, Annie was making baby booties to sell for $1.25 per pair, and they always seemed to be in demand. She always enjoyed making them, and it never once seemed like work. To this day, Miss Annie says, “Do something you love and you'll never work a day again”. It was a few years down the road before Annie actually