According to her blog, bellacrochet.blogspot.com, Ann (her preferred name), worked in the crochet pattern publishing business for the next twenty years. She was an in-house designer, technical editor, and eventually a crochet pattern book editor.

Ann continued designing as a freelancer. In the 2020s she sold her patterns online. She offered quite a few free design downloads, too.

The doily shown here is Ann’s Cameo Butterfly Doily, from her Butterflies and Roses Pineapple Doilies pattern collection. I crocheted it in 2019 using Aunt Lydia’s No. 10 crochet cotton.

Ann’s pattern instructed crocheters to glue the flowers and the butterfly to the pineapple motif base. I was shocked, because…glue?—on a doily?

However, I followed directions. After the fabric glue set, I stitched down the slender antennae and the tips of each wing, just to make sure they would stay put.]]>