With a grandma who was a milliner, seamstress and dress designer, Jeanette was bound to love sewing. Starting at a very young age, she sewed everything from doll clothes to clothing. As she grew up and married her senior prom date, Tom, she went through a number of jobs but always came back to sewing. When her oldest daughters were young, she taught sewing while working at a number of Southern California fabric stores. In 1987, she and Tom moved to Oregon where she started teaching at Greenbaum's Quilted Forest in Salem until the shop closed in 2014. She then expanded her teaching talents at Whitlock's Sewing & Vacuum as the head educator and Handi-Quilter expert until she retired from there in 2017.
Buying her first short-arm quilting machine in the 90's, after seeing a demonstration on one at the Sisters Quilt Show, Jeanette realized that her future, and love of sewing, would have more than just straight stitches. Instead, her future would be full of machine quilting, embroidery, and apparel! She graduated to a mid-arm in 2005 to increase what she could do. She moved up another step five years ago with the purchase of a Handi-Quilter Avante complete with the Pro-Stitcher Computer. Her current longarm quilting machine is a Handi-Quilter Infinity with a Pro-Stitcher.
It was the combination of Jeanette's imagination and the capabilities of the new machines that helped birth On The Stitch.
Jeanette has been able to use all of her creative gifts in helping others to make their quilt dreams a reality. At this time she is focusing on computerized edge to edge quilting designs, but she is also does amazing custom designs as her schedule allows.
While she is supposedly retired, she is keeping busy enjoying time with husband, grandchildren, great-
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