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No Sewing Machine, No Pattern, No Problem
We’ve just returned home after spending a week with our daughter, her husband and our two grandchildren who are now seven and four. The grandchildren love to work on art projects of various sorts and are quite imaginative. Usually when I visit, I have a sewing project...
My Two Favorite Pastimes
I taught several classes at my shop last week and we were doing hand piecing as part of the lesson. There was a discussion about hand piecing and hand quilting and how pleasant and relaxing the handwork is. I was surprised at how many of those in the class said they...
Sewing to Dots
It has been exciting to see the recurrence of interest in hand piecing. At the turn of the century with everything geared to machine piecing I was determined to try and keep hand sewing alive into the new millennium. My Quiltmaking by Hand book was the result and I am...
Our Favorite Fabrics
Often my blogs come about by a customer who asks an interesting question. Sometimes the ideas come from my staff as this one does today. The bonus for this week’s “Weekly Web Special,” (available only to subscribers*) mentions how difficult it might be to pick your...
Jinny Beyer Club
Often on Facebook we show photos of people bringing show and tell to Jinny Beyer Club. I realized some of you may not know what “Club” is. Jinny Beyer Club is a gathering of quilt enthusiasts at our shop on the second Saturday of each month (except for November when...
Another Beyer Book
Most of you know me as a quilter first and foremost. But there are other aspects of my life that you know very little about. So this blog is a bit of a departure. My husband and I have three children—two sons and a daughter. We are proud of all of them. Our oldest,...
Travel with Me to Nepal
I am so excited to announce that I will be going to Nepal on a tour with Sew Many Places October 14-22 this year. We all gain inspiration for our work in a lot of different ways. I definitely know that the two years I lived in Nepal from 1968-1970 had a direct impact...
Printing Templates Using Your Home Printer
With the Lucy Boston and Millefiori craze, I have been pleased that so many people are finding the joys of hand piecing, and are exploring more complex designs. Many designs can be cut using rotary cutting techniques but others such as my 2016 BOM, Cosmos, are...
New York City in Six Hours…a 17 hour marathon!
My friends, Sue and Malcolm Bennett, from Australia, visited us here in Virginia for a few days. Sue is a quilter and has a shop in Waitchie, Victoria. You might remember her from a previous blog post https://jinnybeyer.com/blog/2014/08/page/3/. When I asked what they...
The Inspirations of Costa Rica
What a treat it was to leave our three feet of snow and head off to beautiful, sunny Costa Rica. I’ve been back less than a week and am already suffering withdrawal. I traveled to Costa Rica to be one of the teachers in the first ever “Cocoon” run by Jim West and his...