Jo Avery – the Blog

Watermelon Eyelashes Quilt and a Moxie Update

My first quilt finish of 2022 is called Watermelon Eyelashes. This is quite a long post as I’ll be discussing how you can put too much pressure on yourself and become paralysed by it. So buckle up! This quilt begun almost a year ago after I taught my Journey to the Centre of the Earth …

Dresden Daisy Quilt and a Moxie Catch-up

I have a new quilt to share today. This is my Dresden Daisy quilt, made earlier this year for Today’s Quilter. Almost every year for the last five I have scored the cover quilt for the issue that comes out at the same time as Festival of Quilts. In fact I plan a ‘show-stopping’ quilt …

The Moxie Report Part 1

About 10 days ago a pallet arrived at Shangri la Farm with all of this!! Yes my Moxie has arrived! This is the new long arm quilting machine by Handi Quilter and I am lucky enough to have one of the first in the UK.  You can read all about the start of my Moxie …

Exciting News and an Update on The Schoolhouse!

Time to catch up with my Schoolhouse AND some exciting news I have to share about a new addition to my Sewing Room! First of all I need to fess-up about something and I’m just going to apologise right at the start as some of my dear readers are going to feel very disappointed with …