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.

Temperature Embroidery and Temperature Crochet Blanket

My adventures with Temperature Projects continue! In this post I’ll finally reveal my finished Temperature Embroidery from 2021 AND share my project for 2022 – a Temperature Crochet Blanket. I’ll also be sharing the pattern and method I’m using this year. I actually finished the Temperature Embroidery just after New Year but I waited a

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

Temperature Quilt and Temperature Embroidery

I have finished my Temperature Quilt top!  And I have started a Temperature Embroidery! I started the ‘Weather Bubble’ Temperature Quilt just over a year ago on 28th March and finished it yesterday 5th April. Each row is 17 squares and there are 22 rows (the closest I could get to 365 days). You can

Catching Up With My Temperature Quilt

It’s time to catch up with my ‘Weather Bubble’ Temperature Quilt as I am officially halfway through! I started this project just after we went into lockdown here in Scotland and I wrote all about it in this post here. This has turned out to be such an important part of my daily routine during

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