Jo Avery – the Blog

Gathering Blooms BOM Quilt

It’s almost a year since I wrote this post about the new Gathering Blooms Block of the Month I had designed for Today’s Quilter magazine. Well here is the finished quilt! I’ve really enjoyed making these blocks every month, they are a lovely mix of piecing and needle-turn applique and of course I got to

3 New Quilts and one is already a Prize Winner!

Back in January I finished 3 quilts. Now it’s March and I’m finally getting around to posting about them here! And one of them has already won a prize! I wrote about The Thread House Academy, our new online teaching platform, in my last post and this, followed by the Scottish Quilting Show in Glasgow

The Summer Breeze BOM Collection

A few months back in this post I told you all about The Thread House Club’s new Summer Breeze BOM and promised to share my finished quilt here. Well here it is! And as this was finished months ago I now have a number of other Summer Breeze inspired makes to share, all ahead of

Flower Pot Tumbler Quilt

It’s been a while since I’ve had a quilt in a magazine so I’m delighted to share the Flower Pot Tumbler quilt as featured in the new issue (91) of Today’s Quilter. This issue also includes a supplement with four absolutely stunning star quilts designed by Lynne Goldsworthy! I have been hoarding a stash of

Watermelon Eyelashes Quilt and a Moxie Update

My first quilt finish of 2022 is called Watermelon Eyelashes. This is quite a long post as I’ll be discussing how you can put too much pressure on yourself and become paralysed by it. So buckle up! This quilt begun almost a year ago after I taught my Journey to the Centre of the Earth

2021 in Quilts

Happy New Year! And goodbye to 2021 whose main redeeming feature was being a bit better than 2020! To carry on a decade long tradition I’m greeting 2022 with a mosaic round up of the quilts I made during the last 12 months.  For this photo collage I’ve included some mini quilts as the 10

Finished Weather Bubble Temperature Quilt

My temperature quilt is finished! And in time to enter it for the special exhibition at QuiltCon Pheonix next year. I started Weather Bubble almost immediately after the first Covid lockdown last year and I wrote about it in this blogpost here.  I also wrote two further blogposts during the year it took to complete

Free Bird BOM Quilt

There is much excitement at The Thread House HQ this week as we prepare for our new BOM Club to start next week! I first wrote about our second yearly Block of the Month Club in this post but I now have a finished quilt to share along with a few new samples made using

Bedding Plants QAL – Finishing Up

It’s time to put our flower rows together and finish our Bedding Plants quilt! It’s very exciting to see this already happening in the Facebook Group and on Instagram and I am just delighted with how many of our ‘quiltalongers’ have managed to keep up and stitch all their rows. In this post I thought