Jo Avery – the Blog

Spring Embroidery News

I’ve been spending so much of my time on hand sewing recently including some new embroidery projects so I thought we could catch up here with an embroidery post. I even have a new pattern in a magazine, something I don’t do so much these days. But I really like the embroidery magazine Stitch and

Wardrobe Landscapes and a Flower Power Embroidery

It’s been a while since I had a project in a magazine but now, just like buses, two have landed at exactly the same time. One is quilting and the other is embroidery which adds a nice balance to this post. The first one is my Landscape Wardrobe mini quilts as featured in the latest

Scattered Stars Embroidered Pillow

Here’s a bit of festive embroidery to ease you into the Christmas period. Plus I have some exciting embroidery related news to share in this post so please read on… This is my Scattered Stars Pillow which uses star shapes and jewel colours to create a cushion that looks good at Chrismas but can be

Modern Crewel Embroidery Book Tour Round-up and GIVEAWAY!

Edited: GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED! Congratulations to commenter number 8 – Jo!!  I will email you Jo (and great colour choices!). Commiserations to everyone else.  Thanks so much for entering everyone! Please read on for the Round up Post… The Modern Crewel Embroidery Book Tour has been happening over the last two weeks and this round-up

Modern Crewel Embroidery Book Tour

Today is the start of a two week Instagram Book Tour to celebrate the publication of my new book Modern Crewel Embroidery.  It’s happenning over on Instagram because so few of my guests keep a blog, however some of them do and will be writing blogposts as well, AND I will be writing a round

Time for Embroidery

It’s time for some embroidery! The time has come to start talking about my new Modern Crewel Embroidery book with a little more urgency as it is due for release next month! This means I can now share some of the projects from the book and tell you a little more about it. I’ve got

Temperature Quilt and Temperature Embroidery

I have finished my Temperature Quilt top!  And I have started a Temperature Embroidery! I started the ‘Weather Bubble’ Temperature Quilt just over a year ago on 28th March and finished it yesterday 5th April. Each row is 17 squares and there are 22 rows (the closest I could get to 365 days). You can

Embroidery Update

It’s ages since I posted about embroidery and I realised that I hadn’t even shared the exciting news here about my forthcoming book ‘Modern Crewel Embroidery’ which is due out in October.  Since my Moxie arrived I’ve been very taken up with quilting but in the background there is always some embroidery going on and