About Us
In April of 2007 Andy Jonassen and his four daughters, Bekah, Abigail,
Julia, and Diana purchased the inventory and customer base of the "The Country
Variety Shoppe.". A few months later Andy (who grew up moving strctures all over lower
Michigan, a long time entrepreneur and
contractor) moved home a building built in the late 1800's to use for a retail
store,
office and shipping location.
In June of 2007 the inventory and eqipment from the "The Country Variety Shoppe" were
moved to our new location and the name was changed to "Four Winds Fabric and More
This name was arranged in a hurry and proved to be
unsatisfactry to all. In
November of 2007 the name was changed to "Andersdotters" meaning "Andrew's daughters"
in Norwegian which was derived from our Norwegian ancestory. This name has proved
much more to the liking of all involved and promises to be a long-standing name
for our business.
Since it's conception in 2007 Andersdotters has greatly expanded its
inventory and product offering at its home location in Athens, Wisconsin. We
have also expanded our mail order offering and customer base and currently offer a
wide range of products to customers throughout the United States and Canada. For a detailed
view of the products that we offer please jump over to our "Shopping" page or
visit us at our location at 810 E County Highway A, Athens, WI, 54411.
To be added to our mailing list and
recieve our samples please contact us at (715) 257-1031. Please be aware that we
are very selective with our samples as we do not charge for them and so have to
generate a certain volume of sales from every set to remain profitable. If you
are currently receiving our samples we ask that you please pass them around to
your friends and family so that we can continue to supply them free of charge.
This method also allows for multiple orders to be shipped together and so gain
shipping savings.
In
November of 2008 Abigail married and sold her share in the business. It is
currently managed by Bekah, Julia and Diana.
Our store is a work in progress. In the fall of 2008 we built a porch
onto the front of our building and are
currently working on completing the second floor of our building to make way for
a new aspect to our services here.
Joel Jonassen has completed training and plans to begin offering
sewing machine repair under the name "Anderson Sewing Machne Repair"
. He
will be offering complete machine repair and plans to expand into new
machine sales as well.
We also plan to complete
work on the exterior in the near future. In the mean time
we have just finished installing new shelving for our material and are working on deploying
a complete e-commerce solution to better serve our customers.
If we were
to recieve any reviews it would be on the interior of our building. Built in the
late 1800's, it features original hardwood floors and bead board wall coverings.
Although some necessary changes have been made, we have striven to leave the
interior as original as possible to preserve it's look and feel.
If you would like to take a step back in time we invite
you to stop by and take a look at this bit of history that we possess!
Today Andersdotters is open and ready
for business. Our store hours are 9:00 to 5:00 Monday through Friday and 9:00 to
3:00 Saturday Central Standard Time.
To order simply head on over to our "Shopping" page and order by mail, phone, fax or e-mail.
If you need assistance or would like more information
please contact us via any of the means listed on our "Conact Us "
Thank you for your interest in Andersdotters!
