Jo Avery – the Blog

More Stitch Gathering News!

I am so excited about this year’s Stitch Gathering! Not only will we get to do it all again, but this year is going to be EVEN better! everyone hard at work in the morning workshops We have changed the venue to Napier’s Craiglockhart Campus. This is situated a little further to the south of

Improv EPP

I bet you didn’t know you could do Improv EPP, did you? Well it turns out you can! Yes I know it is another cushion, but this one is for me, and it’s also my first FAL finish this year. This project started more than a year ago now as a project to show off

Botch Handle Cushion

This week a friend had a special birthday (a number I am heading for in just a few years too!) so I made her this cushion out of gorgeous Dashwood fabric. I just love those foxes. This is the Botch Handle block for my Modern Sampler Quilt which I finally finished a few weeks back.

A new use for quilts

As I am right in the middle of making a new quilt with nothing much to show you at present, I thought I would catch up on a couple of little projects I finished around Christmas time (better late than never!). This first one is a tiny mini quilt for my eldest son Felix, the

Modern Sampler Quilt finished!

I actually finished this quilt before Christmas, but with everything that’s been going on and with the terrible weather we’ve been having (everything is soaking wet outside!) making photography difficult, I am only just able to share it with you now. This is my Modern Sampler Quilt, that I started making for a class last

FAL 2014 – I am joining in!

I only managed to take part in the first quarter of last year’s finish-along, and only managed to finish 2 things! How useless am I? To tell you the truth I am actually quite a good finisher so I don’t usually have loads of projects to add. But this year I seem to have found

Clamshells – rinse and repeat

First off I want to thank you for all the beautiful, heart-felt comments you left after my last post. They were all so comforting and supportive and I really appreciate you taking the time to leave them. Also a special message to KAY. Kay, you have been leaving lovely comments on my blog for a

A very NEWSY post

I usually keep my personal life out of this blog as much as possible. I have always wanted it to be a happy, crafty place where I can go to escape real life. But sometimes real life leaks into every part your life. And I guess this is how I feel at the moment and

I made this all by myself!

Yes, I knitted this jacket! I am ridiculously pleased with myself 🙂 I started back in September and have been labouring away in the evenings over the last few months. I don’t do lot of knitting, in fact I had a good 10 year break when I zealously crocheted and wouldn’t even have looked at