Jo Avery – the Blog

Temperature Quilts for 2024 and a Moxie upgrade!

I have temperature quilt projects to share and exciting news about the new Moxie XL! Regular readers will know all about my passion for Temperature Projects. You can read about my original Weather Bubble quilt here and since then I’ve completed a temperature embroidery and started (and then aborted!) a temperature crochet blanket. I’ve started

The Hills Are Alive and Quilts of 2023

It’s that odd time of year between Christmas and New Year when time seems to be more elastic and when I traditionally post a review of all the quilts I’ve made in the last 12 months. Every year my quilt total gets less and less! In many ways I think this is a good thing.

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

Poplars Quilt

It’s been quite a while since I shared a finished quilt here! This Poplars Quilt is a bit special as not only is it my biggest quilt ever it’s also been many years in the making. And its the first quilt to have it’s photo shoot enabled by a telehandler! Let’s go back to the

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

Quilts of 2022 and NEWS for 2023!

I’m a little later than usual for my annual ‘quilts of the year’ round-up post so this one will also include exciting news for 2023. A restrained amount of quilts for me in 2022 which include 4 charity quilts and 3 quilts made for The Thread House Club BOMs (one of which was also a

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

The Gathering Blooms BOM Begins!

The Gathering Blooms BOM officially starts today with the publication of issue 94 of Today’s Quilter!  I wrote a whole post about this new BOM a few weeks back which you can read here. Please note that the 60% off subscription offer is still valid but of course you won’t get your first issue with