Jo Avery – the Blog

Going on Tour!

Are you in the London area? Would you like to come along to a workshop taught by yours truly at The Village Haberdashery?? I am going to be teaching my Feathers Quilt (as featured on the cover of Love Patchwork and Quilting earlier this year) at their shop in West Hampstead on Saturday 28th March …

Countdown to Christmas!

Proper thinking about Christmas is still a few weeks away for me, but we’ve already started some of our Christmas workshops at myBearpaw studio. Yesterday we did Christmas Angels and had a lovely day creating pretty handmade ‘dollies with wings’. Here is the angel I made along with the rest of the class. Her name …

Giant Clamshells

It seems a long time since I showed you something I made! All my time recently has been taken up with the Stitch Gathering or making stuff that I can’t show you yet. And then for the last week I have been either ill or busy organising our Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild Luke Haynes event …

Granny Squares Quilt

It always takes me a while to get round to these popular quilts that are quilt-a-longs etc.  I’ve loved the Granny Square quilts from afar for a while now (especially the one Lynz made which was part of our Scottish Modern Quilt Exhibition last year) but never got round to making a whole quilt – …

Merry Stitches GIVEAWAY!!

Our Christmas Fabric has arrived! I know you are all hot and sweaty and Christmas seems such a long way off but it’s here anyway so let’s celebrate!! And not any old Christmas fabric, no, this is a whole collection from my favourite designer Cori Dantini!! And I’m going to give away a whole FQ …

Together Circle Quilt – a FAL finish!

Yes it’s my third FAL finish this quarter! That’s a record for me 🙂 This is my Together Circle Quilt. This is the circle I belong to in the do. Good Stitches group on Flickr.  Every month we produce a new quilt for charity. I am usually a stitcher which means I just sew 2 …

Swatches Quilt 2.0

I have this other little project in Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine this month (issue 9) – the Swatches Quilt. This is a version of this mini quilt… …which I made last summer. You can read about how I came up with the idea here. I always thought it was a neat concept and so …

Fresh Sewing Day

My participation in Lynne’s Fresh Sewing Day usually totals about one a year, mainly because I either forget or else feel I have not really achieved enough in the last month for a whole post. But May 2014 has been a productive month with 3 quilts finished and shared. That’s my Dresden Porthole (bottom middle), …

Feathers Quilt

I can’t tell you how much I have been longing to show you my Feathers Quilt! I made it for Love Patchwork and Quilting Mag a few months back and this issue finally hits the newstand today. And I made the cover again this month! So chuffed!!! This felt like an important commission as the …

The Stitch Gathering Ticket Quilt!

Today I am taking part in the Blogger’s Quilt Festival Spring 2014! I have exhibited at every festival apart from the first (didn’t get my blog started until a few weeks after it took place!). Once you’ve read all about this quilt please head over to Amy’s blog and take a look at all the …