In a recent discussion with a couple of my staff members on the changes we’ve been through this past year after closing our shop to become an online-only business, I was reminded of the similarities to how the Studio began. In 1990 my son, who had started a fledgling web site development business, said I needed a website and proceeded to set one up for me. The site carried only my fabrics and patterns. To house this new venture, I simply looked out my kitchen window to a small structure just a few yards outside my door.
In 1984, my husband and I bought an eighteenth century farmhouse originally owned by Lord Fairfax who our county is named after. Legend has it that Lord Fairfax used it as his hunting lodge. Also on the property is an old log cabin from which I started my mail order business.
Eventually as the business grew, I moved the Studio to a nearby location and opened the Jinny Beyer Studio retail shop. Last year with the pandemic we downsized, moved to a smaller building and became, once again, a mail order business only. The cabin out back now holds some surplus items from the former Studio and serves as a guest house when we need extra space for family events.
