Jo Avery – the Blog

Winter Woodland Play Pillow for Fat Quarterly

Fat Quarterly issue 15 is out today and of course it’s all about Christmas! And, for the first time, I have contributed a project – my Winter Woodland Play Pillow. I have made a few woodland themed mini quilts, some for swaps and some for commissions, and they have all featured trees with pockets. I

Liberty Clamshell Cushion

A few months back Fiona put up this great tutorial on clamshells. I have always wanted to have a go at these and pretty much started this piece as soon as I had stopped reading! As regular readers will know I have a large stash of Liberty tana lawn, collected over many long years. But

Blogger’s Quilt Festival Autumn 2013

Today I am taking part in my 9th Blogger’s Quilt Festival!  Thank you so much Amy for hosting this wonderful event for our community. This time I am previewing my Scrappy Trip Around The World Quilt. But as I have used polka dots throughout I thought I should call it Polka Around The World! Not

Using up my class samples again…

I have been very busy with my workshops over the last few months. Most classes involve a degree of class prep plus I quite ofter produce a block during the class. So on Monday I had a great time using up some of my class samples and making them in to useful items. I have

The Sweet Life Pillow

Here’s a little EPP project I’ve been working on for the last month and now it’s finished and off to a very special destination tomorrow! The nice people at Blend Fabrics asked me to make something with Cori Dantini’s current line ‘The Sweet Life’ for their booth at Quilt Market!! So my cushion will be

Mini Improv Quilt

I’ve been a bit busy with classes and quilt shows recently and have a number of projects on the go but none at the right stage to share with you here yet. But I did manage to finish the Improv Mini that I started in Lu Summer’s Class at Fat Quarterly Retreat this summer. I

Christmas Crafts and a special Mini Retreat Day!

We’ve been feeling very festive around here this week as we prepare for a bumper season of Christmas Crafts! Not only do I have some new Bearpaw Christmas Craft Classes to share with you, but we’ve also gone and organised a new Stitch Gathering Mini Retreat Day!  We just couldn’t wait another year to do

Nametags Workshop

It’s getting very nearly time for our Stitch Gathering Retreat! And I know some of you still haven’t made your nametags yet, so I thought I would do a post with nametag ideas that might be of help with last minute panics. I’ve been making a few of these to show at my Bearpaw Craft

Scottish Modern Quilt Exhibition

For those of you who can’t make it along to our Scottish Modern Quilt Exhibition I thought I would share these photos that my husband, Jonathan, took after he had finished the mammoth task of hanging them on Friday (thanks Jonathan!). I took the last 3 to highlight particular things he had missed. This is

Mini Randoms

A few months back I made this mini spool quilt with leftover sample blocks from my Modern Patchwork Techniques 1 and 2 evening classes. As I am doing a new ‘Modern Sampler’ class this year I can use all my old class samples up (something I have been dying to do since I made them!).