Jinny beyer wikipedia

By Suellen Meyer, 1984

Jinny Beyer lives on a 250-year-old Virginia farm, tucked away in the woods outside our nation's capital. The location suits her many interests as artisan, athlete, gardener, writer, and, yes, quilter.

Jinny's success is well known within the quilt world, but she has also received awards in debating, Little Theater, and running, which she took up at age forty, writing How to Run a Six-Minute Mile in 1984.

Surprisingly, she also knows Morse code, operates a ham radio, and plays the sitar.

Jinny beyer wikipedia biography

John, her husband of more than forty-five years, comments, "If Jinny is sitting on the couch doing nothing, she must be sick!"

Jinny juggles many professional duties as designer, author, teacher, quilter, and lecturer. Perhaps that is why it is so amazing that Jinny has exclusively pieced and quilted her creations by hand since the early 1970's, "This is my quilt to last a lifetime.

I am in no hurry. I can catch my breath," explains Jinny. Of course, many have advi