Jo Avery – the Blog

Social Bite Village Quilt Drive Update 2020

Earlier in the year I had been planning a series of ‘Sew-in Days’ at my shop to start making this year’s quota of quilts for the Social Bite Village Quilt Drive, but of course like so many things these couldn’t go ahead.  This is a charity quilt drive that I started 2 years ago to

Festival of Quilts 2016 Report!

Those of you on social media may already have heard my good news (and the rest of you my have heard my extra loud gasps all the way from Birmingham!) but I’d like to share it over here on the blog too. My quilt was HIGHLY COMMENDED at the Festival of Quilts!!!! This is my

off-centre medallion

A big bold quilt for you today! This is my Off-centre Medallion which was made a few months ago for issue 26 of Love Patchwork and Quilting which is out now in the UK. I was so excited to have made the cover this month!! I just love how great they have made my quilt

Modern Medallion – in progress

I’ve been planning to make this quilt for a while now. It’s going to be a new 10 week evening course at myBearpaw Studio. But of course I never leave myself enough time! I started it a month ago and completed a large centre and a border of HSTs. I had some positive feedback on