Ronda Beyer, Quilting Artist
Location: Tualatin, OR
Quilting Experience: 5 years longarm quilting
website: http://www.rondabeyer.wordpress
Quilting Tips: To achieve a visually interesting quilt Ronda utilizes stencils, freehand designs and a variety of background fills combined with structured ruler work. She feels this creates visual interest giving the quilt a unique personality without using high contrasting threads.
Ronda’s passion for quilting began with her grandmother, a well-known hand quilter and her mother, who owns her own quilt shop (28 years). She has always loved to piece and hand quilt for herself and others. In 2004, after working as a Structural Steel Estimator and Sales Manager for 20 years, Ronda decided to purchase a longarm quilting machine and her quilting career took off.
Within three months of receiving her Gammill Optimum, she was machine quilting for noted author, Nicole Chambers’ third book, “More Simple Quilts with Splash, Dash and Panache.” Ronda entered her first quilt competition at Machine Quilters Showcase in 2005 and won a 3rd Place ribbon. Her well known quilt “It Ain’t Easy Being Green” has won a multitude of awards and catapulted her into the machine quilting industry. Since then, Ronda has enjoyed many quilt competition wins including five Best of Show awards. As a passionate machine quilter, she also enjoys quilt design, piecing and appliqué.
Ronda resides in Tualatin, Oregon (a suburb of Portland) with her husband, Jim and her two quilting assistants, Max and Sophie (her puppies). She has two children, four grandchildren and will be making her teaching debut at Machine Quilters Exposition in the spring of 2010.