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

Two Finished Flower Quilts and a Moxie Report

I have two finished flower themed quilts to share with you today! Both were quilted on my Handi Quilter Moxie and I have again learned a huge amount. So in this post we’ll be exploring the quilting of my Journey to the Centre of a Flower quilt and my new version of the Bedding Plants

Further Adventures with the Moxie – using stencils

It’s time for another Moxie Report!  As I am sure I have mentioned before, there is such a lot to learn about using a long arm quilting machine.  The more I learn, the more I realise there is still to learn, which really suits me as I am happy to take my time and master

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