Jo Avery – the Blog

Basket of Blooms Pattern

I have such a lovely project to share with you today! Last year the Quilter’s Guild of the British Isles (which will be referred to as QGBI for the rest of this post!) asked me to take part in their new Quarterly Techniques venture for 2020.  The plan is to explore the wonderful world of

Spotlight at 40 Quilt

Settle down everybody for today I have quite a quilt story to tell… I should have written this post 3 weeks ago. The quilt was finished and photographed and I had started to write the blog post and was waiting for photos to load when I went back to check a little detail and discovered

Pop Art Bloomfield Mini Quilt

The Quilter’s Guild of the British Isles is celebrating it’s 40th birthday this year and they are marking this in many different ways. One of them is the 2019 Specialist Group Challenge. One of the antique quilts from the guild’s collection, the Edwin and Mary Bloomfield Coverlet, has been chosen to be reinterpreted by members.

The Quilter Magazine

At this year’s Festival of Quilts I re-joined the Quilter’s Guild. They help run the show and have a ‘recruitment’ stand there. I’d been planning to do it for a while having become re-connected with some of the Scottish groups through ‘trunk show’ visits over the last couple of years, and also through my work