Geraldine Elizabeth Kahle Beyer (born July 27, 1941) is an American quilt designer, quilter, author, teacher and lecturer.
Considered by the quilting industry and the publishing media to be of the first designers to form a fabric collection suited to the needs of quilters, she began her career in India after she had run out of yarn.
[2] In 1972, while residing in India after spells in Borneo, Nepal and South America,[2] she sought a new project after she had run out of yarn.
[1] She filmed three videos on quilting between 1987 and 1991,[1] and works as a teacher locally and internationally in countries such as Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Canada, and Iceland.
She ran the Jinny Beyer Seminar on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina from 1981 to 2009, and lectured at an artist and mathematics convention in Stockholm on symmetry in 2000.
She also appeared on internet and HGTV television programs to share her methodology and her color and designs to a wider audience.
[6] She was inspired by Indian designs and fabric,[6] She was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1984 to honor her "outstanding contributions to the world of quilting".