Jo Avery – the Blog

World Wide Whispers Quilt

Last year I was asked to take part in an international group quilting event called World Wide Whispers.  Have you heard of Chinese Whispers Quilts before? I had and had always thought it an intriguing idea. I will explain exactly what this involves if you keep reading. This was called ‘World Wide Whispers’ because it

QuiltCon prep and a big announcement!

I am currently in a high state of excitement due to my forthcoming trip to QuiltCon in Nashville next week! This will be my 3rd QuiltCon after Savannah in 2017 and Austin in 2015 and I’m sure this one will top those previous trips due to even more UK pals travelling with me, and even

Paisley Passion Embroidery – FREE Pattern!

Today is the official launch of my new Passionflower thread collection on the Aurifil blog, and to celebrate I have designed a new embroidery pattern which you can download for FREE! I wrote about my Passionflower thread box in this post here. It contains 10 x 12wt spools in the beautiful shades I used for

Pantone Quilt Challenge 2018 (and other minis)

This year’s Pantone of the Year colour is Ultra Violet and as usual the lovely Rebecca and Sarah have organised another Quilt Challenge! I entered this for the first time last year and had so much fun that I thought I would try again this year (and also I really like purple!). You can see