Jo Avery – the Blog

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  Regular readers will already know how much I love Cori Dantini’s fabrics. I have used both of her previous collections to make cushions and wallhangings. Last year Blend Fabrics asked me to make a pillow from Cori’s ‘The Sweet Life’ collection for their booth at Quilt Market. Well they’ve asked me to make another

The Sweet Life Pillow

Here’s a little EPP project I’ve been working on for the last month and now it’s finished and off to a very special destination tomorrow! The nice people at Blend Fabrics asked me to make something with Cori Dantini’s current line ‘The Sweet Life’ for their booth at Quilt Market!! So my cushion will be

New craft kits and The Sweet Life is here!

A few months back I showed you some EPP hexies and suggested I had a plan for them. Well I had decided to produce a cushion cover kit for hand sewers, and though I finished the cushion ages ago, producing the kit feels like I have actually had to give birth to it! I think

Garden Shed Wallhanging

Click here for your FREE Pattern/Tutorial I had such a lovely time playing with my new Cori Dantini line ‘The Sweet Life’ by Blend Fabrics, and here is the result! I love Cori’s illustrations and when I saw these garden themed ladies for some reason I wanted to put each of them in their own

The Sweet Life Begins

Look at this lovely bundle of yummy gorgeousness! This is Cori Dantini’s new line of fabric and I am a very lucky girl to be getting to play with this before it even hits the stores! A few weeks back I got a really nice email from Cori herself saying she had seen this cushion