Carol Anderson moved to Osage from Northern Wisconsin as a high school sophomore when her father began his job as the builder of Our Saviors Lutheran church, a beautiful limestone church, which has just attained the honor of being listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1955, after marriage to Paul Anderson, she returned to Wisconsin where Paul taught high school in Monona for 32 years. Carol was a stay-at-home mother of four kids while also attending the University of Wisconsin. After graduation, she taught special education classes in the Madison schools for 20 years. Throughout those years she always found time to teach knitting to 4-H’ers and conduct adult vocational classes, judge county fairs, and in 1983 began her own business, Cottage Creations, with partner Kristi Williams.

After retirement from teaching in 1993, the Andersons left Cottage Grove, and moved to a country acreage in Iowa. During that time, she led workshops nationwide, hosted week-long workshops in Door County, Wisconsin, taught summer workshops at Sievers on Washington Island, Wisconsin, led a tour of knitters to Norway, and hosted Mississippi River and Alaska knitting cruises.

After nearly thirty years of rural living, Paul and Carol moved back to Osage in June, 2022, mostly due to our kids urging and the obvious needs of octogenarians.

Today Carol continues to sell her patterns via her website and online (Ravelry), where knitters can download patterns electronically to phones or other electronic devices.

The Andersons have five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren, aged 2 to 15 years, living in Wisconsin, Colorado and North Carolina.