Jo Avery – the Blog

Mini Chicken Pouch

It’s time to launch our Free Taster Weekend for The Thread House Academy and this year my tutorial will be this mini chicken pouch! Read on to find out why I will NOT be writing a pattern for it. I first made one of these little triangle pouches during a Golden Bobbins (my local sewing

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

Bear Paw Parade Quilt

    Introducing Bear Paw Parade! This is a new quilt that features in issue 54 of Today’s Quilter which is out now.  I made this quilt using the beautiful Murmur fabric by Valori Wells that Free Spirit sent my at the start of the year. It’s lovely to be able to finally reveal this