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Our New Grand Bundle – Rainbow’s End
Periodically for the last few years I have put together “Grand Bundles” of fabrics, the colors of which are inspired by a beautiful photograph from nature. I am always on the lookout for a photo opportunity to use for these bundles. The best creator of colors for a...
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Fourth of July 2019 Holiday Hours
The Jinny Beyer Studio will be closed on Thursday, July 4th, to celebrate Independence day. We will reopen at 10 a.m., Friday, the 5th.
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Are You Ready for Row by Row 2019?
As we were getting ready to post this new blog entry, some of us received by email a blog entry from last year. It seems to have been floating around in cyberspace since then. We apologize for any confusion. Please ignore it but pay attention to the new entry...
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Protea Blog…Take Two!
Last month on my blog I posted about the Protea Squares quilt made with the entire Protea Bundle. One of the questions asked by a customer about the larger version of the quilt was, what would happen if you put the dark squares in the center instead of the light. ...
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Stellaris BOM Part I – The Inspiration for the Design
From 1968 to 1972 my husband and I, along with our three children, lived in Nepal and India. It was in those places that I fell in love with geometric and mosaic designs. The images were everywhere–on buildings, walls, textiles, gardens–and they became...
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Protea – A Bundle With So Many Possibilities
Last month, we introduced our latest grand bundle, Protea, named after an amazing flower found in South Africa. As I often do, the colors for this bundle we’re pulled from a photograph the Studio’s manager, Rebecca, took while on a trip there in 2017. If you are...
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A Snow Day = A Sew Day
When bad weather forces us to close the Studio, we spend our day as many of you would—working on our quilting projects. Here’s a quick look at how many of we staffers spent our free day. Jinny is currently in the middle of taping the lessons for her new...
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Necessary Neutrals
When I gave my very first talk on color many years ago, I mentioned that I had a “secret ingredient” that seemed to work with almost every color scheme I put together. That ingredient was brown. As the years went on I soon realized that it wasn’t just brown but any...
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Irish Heather Grand Bundle
This week’s web special offers the last of the Irish Heather bundles. In August, I introduced the grand bundle with colors extracted from a photograph of the Irish hillside taken by Nancy Fallone. Once a month for five months we have offered nine of those...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Here it is almost the beginning of winter and fall seems like a blur. It seems I was on a treadmill and didn’t know when to get off. We had our anniversary sale, followed by some classes, then our 10-day shop hop, followed by a trip to Quilt Market in Houston and as...
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