Jenny Doan

Jenny Doan is a prominent quilter and the face of Missouri Star Quilt Company. She is a woman who turned her hobby into a multimillion-dollar business. Doan has been called "The most famous quilter in the world" due to her over 350 YouTube tutorials that have been viewed more than 110 million times. In 2015, two of her children who handled the business end of Missouri Star Quilt Co. received the National Small Business Persons of the Year award.

Doan and her husband Ron live in the small town of Hamilton, Missouri, and love the rural life. Ron worked as a machinist with the Kansas City Star. They have seven children and twenty-two grandchildren.

Doan learned to sew with the 4-H Club youth organization at the age of ten. As a newlywed she sewed costumes for the local theater group, and after her children left home she took her first quilting class at the Grand River Technical School in Chillicothe, Missouri. She is the published author of numerous articles and quilting patterns, and contributes to the company-owned quilting magazine, BLOCK.

She has been featured on radio and NBC news broadcasts, but most of her fame came because of the more than 350 YouTube videos through which she teaches quick and easy methods to make attractive quilts with precut fabrics.

In 2008, Doan and her family founded Missouri Star Quilt Company and began producing weekly tutorials on YouTube. The company was started with a longarm sewing machine in a dilapidated brick building in downtown Hamilton, Missouri serving as a shop. She utilizes the patchwork method of quiltmaking along with applique techniques.

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