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

Folk Art Dolls

It’s been quite a while since I posted over here! I’m sure I’ve been as busy as ever but working on many different projects at a time and not really finishing anything enough to share here. However I wanted to tell you about a little journey I’ve been on recently to create a Folk Art

The Dream Birds Are Here!

The Dream Bird patterns have finally flown into view and can now be purchased as PDFs from my website here! Four years ago I launched my first PDF patterns with my first 4 bird applique patterns. Somehow these real life birds have now evolved into imaginary ‘dream birds’! I first started creating these back in September