Jo Avery – the Blog

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

Social Bite Village Quilt Drive Report 2022 Part 2

I have another bumper stack of gorgeous charity quilts to share with you today, 16 in total! This is the second batch going to the Social Bite Village this year.  A huge thanks to all the wonderful quilters who have donated their quilts! I just did a tally of all the quilts donated since I

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

Quilt Dancing with the Edinburgh MQG

Lockdown brought all sorts of challenges but also some new opportunities and one of these was the chance to take an online class with the amazing Irene Roderick along with my Edinburgh MQG buddies. Irene lives in Austin Texas and starting offering her ‘Dancing with the Wall’ workshop as a Zoom course during lockdown. Our

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Today I am sharing a new quilt finish along with news of the workshops I will be teaching at QuiltCon Together next year. Yes I am now part of the QuiltCon Faculty! QuiltCon wisely decided to change their 2021 physical event (planned for Atlanta) to a virtual one, which means everyone can get involved no

Weather Bubble – A Temperature Quilt

I’ve started a new project which I am finding particularly helpful in these difficult times. A month or so ago the Modern Quilt Guild sent a ‘call-out’ for Temperature Quilts for a special exhibit at QuiltCon 2022. You can read more about it on their website here. I have wanted to make some sort of

QuiltCon 2019 Report

I can’t believe it is already two weeks since I was in Nashville! Since I got back I’ve been busy catching up with quilt deadlines and being ill with what I suspect was a ‘plane lurgy’, so it has taken me longer than I expected to write up my 2019 QuiltCon report post. The photo

QuiltCon prep and a big announcement!

I am currently in a high state of excitement due to my forthcoming trip to QuiltCon in Nashville next week! This will be my 3rd QuiltCon after Savannah in 2017 and Austin in 2015 and I’m sure this one will top those previous trips due to even more UK pals travelling with me, and even

Quilt Invaders in the QuiltCon Magazine!

I am so honoured and pleased to have  a quilt included in the QuiltCon Magazine 2018! This is Quilt Invaders, probably one of the most minimalist quilts I’ve made. This is the second time one of my quilts has appeared in the QuiltCon magazine, Mid Century Modern was in the 2016 magazine. The magazine is