Jo Avery – the Blog

Goodbye 2015… hello 2016!

A quick look back at 2015 and a bumper crop of quilts! This isn’t even all of them as I have 3 more that I haven’t/can’t post about yet! So it’s been a very productive sewing year for me and now it’s on to 2016 (blimey, already?!!) and I’m pretty sure that will involve lot’s

Simply Moderne issue 2 and Improv Meadow WIP

I recently got my hands on issue 2 of Simply Moderne magazine, this is the new quarterly mag from the people behind Quiltmania. I wrote about issue 1 here. As in the first issue, the mag is divided between articles about quilts and quilters and a number of0 projects. This issue has a large feature

Simply Moderne Review

Introducing a new magazine for Modern Quilt lovers! Simply Moderne is brought to you by the same French publishers that produce Quiltmania, a magazine I had never heard of until the ‘my small world QAL‘ hit Instagram a few months back! In case you don’t know what I am talking about Quiltmania magazine published a

2014 Review

Hello 2015!! I hope you all had a good festive period and are now ready for the New Year! Whilst I am keen to get on with 2015, I always find this is a good time of year to look back and review any achievements from the past year. So I have been compiling a