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Jim Carlton, Entrepreneur Stitches Together a Quilting Empire Built on Speed; Short cuts, YouTube make Jenny Doan a Star; Methods put a bee in some purists' bonnets. Wall Street Journal, Feb 1, 2014 (front page)
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303277704579349133544709954

Quote:

"The key to Mrs Doan's popularity: she appeals to 'instant gratification' quilters. 'I don't teach people how to be the best quilter,' she says. 'I teach them how to do it the easiest.'

"Concerned for their parents' future, two of their grown children, Al Doan and Sarah Galbraith, that year took out a $36,000 loan to buy their mother a professional quilting machine. 'We were thinking if we didn't do something, Mom is living in our basement when she gets old,' says Mr Doan [the son], 31.

Note:
(a) "HAMILTON, Mo.—This tiny farm town used to be known as the home of James Cash Penney Jr, founder of the namesake department store chain. * * * She [Jenny Doan] didn't take up the hobby [quilting] until 1997, shortly after she and her husband, Ron, left California to move to this town 65 miles northeast of Kansas City, Mo, with their seven children. * * * Along the way, Hamilton has become a tourism destination for the quilting crowd. Most days, 50 to 100 visitors arrive to meet Mrs Doan and members of her family in their 5,000-square-foot main shop. City Administrator Dale Wallace says the tourism is great, and that maybe the town just needs to patch up its array of amenities. * * * Hamilton Hardware, once the location of the 500th department store in Mr Penney's retail chain"
(i) Hamilton, Missouri
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Missouri
(a city; The population was 1,809 at the 2010 census; [the name] in honor two early Americans, Founding Father and first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, as well as Joseph Hamilton, a notable early American lawyer and military leader killed at the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812
(ii) Battle of the Thames
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Thames
(Oct 5, 1813, near present-day Chatham, Ontario; Thames River; resulted in the death of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh and the destruction of the Native American coalition which he led [allied with the British against US])
(iii) James Cash Penney. Historic Missourians, The State Historical Society of Missouri, undated
shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/p/penney/
("He was the seventh of twelve children born to James Cash Penney and Mary Frances Paxton Penney. Jim’s father was a poor farmer and a Baptist minister")

(b) the subtitle:
(i) "Short cuts, YouTube make Jenny Doan a Star"

A pun, poking fun at Ms Doan's "5-year-old company": Missouri Star Quilt Co.
(ii) [to have or put] A bee in your bonnet: "Preoccupied or obsessed with an idea"
The Phrase Finder, undated.
www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bee-in-your-bonnet.html

(c) surnames:
(i) The English surnames Cash/Case are "from Anglo-Norman French cas(s)e ‘case’, ‘container’ (from Latin capsa)."  (denoting a case maker)
(ii) The English and Scottish surnames Penney/Penny is "from Middle English peni, peny ‘penny’ * * * This was the common Germanic unit of value when money was still an unusual phenomenon. It was the only unit of coinage in England until the early 14th century, when the groat and the gold noble were introduced, and [penny] was a silver coin of considerable value."
(iii) The Irish surnames Doan/Doane are
"reduced [which means the dropping of "Ó" (= "O' ", as in O'Sullivan to Sullivan)] Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubháin ‘descendant of Dubhán’, meaning ‘the little black one.’"

(d) "That simpler process was the appeal for Carmen Leticia Attie, a psychotherapist from Mexico City, who learned to quilt in 2010 by watching Mrs. Doan's videos. She also found Mrs Doan's breezy style less intimidating than that of other quilting tutors."
(i) Laetitia (goddess)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetitia_(goddess)
(ii) breezy (adj): "briskly informal <a breezy essay>"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/breezy

(e) "Bonnie Browning, executive show director of the American Quilter's Society * * * whose group is based in Paducah, Ky."
(i) Galbraith
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galbraith
(ii) Paducah, Kentucky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah,_Kentucky
(a city; located at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio Rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missouri, to the northwest and Nashville, Tennessee, to the southeast [driving distance between Paducah and Nashville is 136 miles]; The population was 25,024 during the 2010 US Census; section 1.1 Early history: Paducah was first settled as Pekin [sic; Peking, is the Postal Map Romanization] (a former name of Beijing, China) by James and William Pore c 1821)