Jo Avery – the Blog

Harvest Festival Quilt

I have a new quilt to share with you today! This is Harvest Festival which is featured in the new issue of Today’s Quilter (53), out today. No cover quilt for me this month and rightly so as my quilt couldn’t compete with that stunning log cabin from Lynne Goldsworthy! Instead you will find my

Shutter Speed – A Quilt Planner Quilt

Another exciting quilt reveal today! This year I was very honoured to have my submission to design a quilt for the Quilter’s Planner selected. The Quilter’s Planner launched it’s pre-orders a couple of weeks back and last Thursday they started to reveal the 2020 quilts. Today is my day to show off my quilt! Do

Avery Garland Quilt

I’m so pleased that I can finally share this special quilt with you. This is my Avery Garland quilt which I made for the new issue (52) of Today’s Quilter, which comes out today in the UK. And it made the cover! It’s a mixture of English Paper Piecing and applique which I started back

Lisbon Tile Quilt

I’m super happy to have a quilt on the cover of Today’s Quilter after a long break! In fact it’s been a long time since I had a quilt project actually in the magazine. After spending the last few years designing their Block of the Month series and then working on my book I haven’t

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 2019 Report

I can’t believe it is already two weeks since I was in Nashville! Since I got back I’ve been busy catching up with quilt deadlines and being ill with what I suspect was a ‘plane lurgy’, so it has taken me longer than I expected to write up my 2019 QuiltCon report post. The photo

Monster Sampler Quilt!

I have a quilt finish and it is only 11th January! In fact I finished this a week ago but as it’s for a gift I have been waiting to post about it. This is a very long running WIP which I can trace back (thanks to this wonderful blog archive) to the summer of

Giant Button Card Quilt!

Today I am revealing a brand new quilt!  This is my Giant Button Card quilt, made for the RJR Fabrics ‘What Shade Are You?’ Blog hop! Every week RJR Fabrics feature a quilt made by a different quilt blogger using their gorgeous Cotton Supreme Solids.  They approached me earlier in the year and I was

Miss Mustard Seed Memory Star Quilt

Yes that is a bit of a mouthful for a quilt title! Today I am taking part in an ‘instagram tour’, this is like a blog hop but on Instagram.  But because I still like to tell my ‘quilt stories’ over here, where there is more room, I am blog posting too. Miss Mustard Seed