Jo Avery – the Blog

Together Circle Quilt – a FAL finish!

Yes it’s my third FAL finish this quarter! That’s a record for me 🙂 This is my Together Circle Quilt. This is the circle I belong to in the do. Good Stitches group on Flickr.  Every month we produce a new quilt for charity. I am usually a stitcher which means I just sew 2 …

FAL 2nd Quarter

Just snuck in to this quarters Finish-a-long!  With just a few hours to go before the deadline I am listing again the UFOs that I failed dismally to finish last quarter. I only managed to finish one of the six projects I listed at the beginning of the year and so I am featuring them …

FAL 2014 – I am joining in!

I only managed to take part in the first quarter of last year’s finish-along, and only managed to finish 2 things! How useless am I? To tell you the truth I am actually quite a good finisher so I don’t usually have loads of projects to add. But this year I seem to have found …

Forth Bridge EPP lap quilt is finished!

Phew! I’ve finally finished something else for this first quarter of Finish-A-Long 2013! That’s 2 out of 4 (Felix’s Xmas jumper was the other), so 50% percent is not too shabby I guess. If anyone has visited Leanne’s blog for the FAL tutorial’s this week, this quilt will be familiar to you from the Hand …

Hand Quilting Tutorial

Just wanted to let you know that you can find my Hand Quilting Tutorial as part of Finish-A-Long 2013 over on Leanne’s She Can Quilt Blog TODAY! As one of the FAL sponsors Leanne asked me if I’d like to do a tutorial and hand quilting is something I have had on my to-do list …

Finish-a-Long 2013

I didn’t take part in this last year. Somehow I thought I didn’t have that much to get finished. Well this year I have! But I am going to try to be realistic as the FAL is divided into quarters which gives me only 3 months to tackle these. So in this first post I …

How I spent my Christmas Break…

 … I spent it mainly sock knitting! Yes as predicted by many readers, the sock knitting was very addictive and once I started I wanted to get those socks finished!  And I guess I did need a bit of a rest… so despite all my quilt-making plans, I spent a lot of time on the …