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Marilyn’s Melrose Inn |
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Bed & Breakfast and Retreat Center |
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Marilyn's products sell worldwide, inspiring everyone with their ease of use and their unique visual drama. Marilyn also lectures for quilting conferences and guilds, sharing her enthusiastic approach to life as a quilter. She is an infectious communicator and physical dynamo. When sharing time in her company, you will be challenged, delighted, and inspired to achieve new heights with your own quilting and personal endeavors.
Marilyn is both a fabric person and a people person. She is enchanted and delighted to play with color and geometry, designing patterns and inspiring others with their appeal. She calls her mind "the night crew" as the designs just come to her in the night! Then during waking hours, she invents streamlined techniques which every skill level can easily use. They are "silly simple" enough for anyone to follow so that everyone can make her designs easily. The breadth of her work is amazing and the look of her innovative patterns has become her internationally recognized signature.
She assures success for everyone who takes her classes or buys her quality books, patterns, and rulers. It is Marilyn's daily delight to receive letters and e-mails showing photos of proud quilters from around the world standing beside their quilts, beaming with joy, and quite often showing off an award winning ribbon!
Marilyn was born and raised in Long Beach California and moved to Seattle Washington with her high school sweetheart as a young bride of 18. While in Seattle, she became a quilter and the proud mother of three children. She began quilting in 1980, when the first of her three children was born. Her first and only quilting class was eight weeks long and involved making one pinwheel pot holder. She actually never finished that potholder and before the end of her eight week class, where the potholder would have been sandwiched, hand quilted, and then bound, Marilyn was employed at a fabric store teaching quilting herself. She was a dynamo at an early age!
Her most recent endeavor, undertaken in January 2010, is very exciting and involves a lifelong dream. Marilyn purchased an old historic inn built in 1889. It is situated in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. It is now Marilyn's Melrose Inn and Artist Retreat Center. She intends to multiple herself by teaching professional quilters, shop owners, and teachers, and to have fun. She will have retreats for non-professionals too! Productivity and fun will be the theme of each session. Everyone will go home with significant work accomplished and enough excitement to light up their lives!
Flourishing, appreciation, joy, creativity, empowerment and thriving are real experiences in Marilyn’s daily life and for anyone in her company. If you know her, you will agree; if you do not yet know her, make it a priority!
For more information about her innovative products, her dynamic classes, her inspiring lectures, or her week long productive, rewarding, transformative retreats visit our website at www.dohenybooks.com. For more information regarding her week long quilt retreats click here.
Marilyn's motto is simple, yet profound: If you’re not having fun, then you’re not doing it right! |
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Marilyn Doheny is a self-made, internationally famous Contemporary Quilt Artist. She is a published author, having written over 40 books and patterns. Along with her specialty rulers, the 45 Degree Kaleidoscope Wedge and her 9 Degree Circle Wedge Rulers, she has transformed the world of quilting. |