Jo Avery – the Blog

Beauty is You cushion

Here’s a little comfort stitching project I have been working on recently.  You will probably remember how excited I was by Cori Dantini’s Beauty Is You fabric line. I was desperate to do something with it, so taking one of our FQ bundles I embarked on a little EPP. I’ve recently started teaching my classes …

Cedric the Badger

Meet my new woodland friend, Cedric the Badger. Cedric’s had a difficult birth but he’s here now and ready to be stitched. Yes I have a pattern all ready for sale on our website! This was the sneek-peak preview you got a few weeks back when I did a tutorial for the Raised Rose Stitch. …

Liberty Pants Panda Tutorial

Who wants to make a panda?! Not just any old panda, but one of these pandas wearing really cool Liberty pants ?! Remember Sunshine and Sweetie up there? I did promise you a couple of months back that I would do a tute and here it is! Please assemble: Black and white felt plus a …

ARRR8 completed

Isn’t this just stunning?! It’s not mine and I can only take credit for a small part of it, but this is the last top in the ‘Around the Bend and Across the Pond’ round robin I have been participating in (an Old Red Barn Company group). Our group is called ARRR8 (long story and …

Golden Crochet Time

There’s been a lot of embroidery and a fair bit of quilting on the blog recently, but what about crochet I hear you ask? Do you have some crochet on the go Jo? Of course I do, dear readers, I always have crochet on the go. But this time I thought I’d be a bit …

Embroidery Stitch Tutorial

Do you remember this Raised Rose stitch that I used in my Sampler Tree embroidery? I have had a few requests for a tutorial so, in this post, I try my best to give one! I first ‘found’ this stitch by googling ’embroidery stitches’ and looking at the images. Above is what I found. Hopefully you …

Beauty is You is Here!

Now I promised that my last post, which promoted new fabric on our website, wouldn’t be a regular occurrence. But then this very special fabric line arrived and I just had to share it with you! As soon as I saw ‘Beauty is You’ by Cori Dantini a few months back I just totally fell …

Saturday Shopping

I thought I would do an occasional promotional post so I can keep you up to date with all the new fabric we have appearing in our Edinburgh store and on our website. AND give all my loyal followers a little incentive towards some shopping! But first you have to look at all the pretty …

Far Across the Sea quilt finished!

At last I’ve finished my Cherish Circle Quilt! The Cherish Circle is part of Do Good Stitches, a charity bee on Flickr. Every month we make 2 blocks  each and every month a new quilt is born to give away to somebody deserving. Our group has made some really gorgeous quilts (take a look at …

Embroidery Pattern launch with FREEBIE!

 You have been asking for these and I have been promising them, and at last I can announce… … that my embroidery patterns are ready to buy!! Thanks to my IT consultant (*cough* husband), who has been working hard on this all week, you can now buy a pdf of any of the designs on …