Jo Avery – the Blog

Social Bite Village Quilt Drive 2024

Time for an update on donated quilts for the Social Bite Village Quilt Drive. This is actually the first one I’ve posted since December 2022! I took a lot of quilts at the end of 2022 as I knew my impending building work and house upheaval would mean I wouldn’t have space to store quilts

Social Bite Village Quilt Drive Report 2022 Part 2

I have another bumper stack of gorgeous charity quilts to share with you today, 16 in total! This is the second batch going to the Social Bite Village this year.  A huge thanks to all the wonderful quilters who have donated their quilts! I just did a tally of all the quilts donated since I

Social Bite Village Quilt Drive Report 2021

Last week I delivered 12 quilts to the Social Bite Village in Edinburgh as part of the Quilt Drive I started two years ago when the village opened. You can read all about the Social Bite Village, the quilt drive, and my involvement with it in this post. I was recently sent a report with

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

Social Bite Village Quilt Drive Update 2020

Earlier in the year I had been planning a series of ‘Sew-in Days’ at my shop to start making this year’s quota of quilts for the Social Bite Village Quilt Drive, but of course like so many things these couldn’t go ahead.  This is a charity quilt drive that I started 2 years ago to

Social Bite Village Quilt Drive 2019 – part 2

A few weeks ago I delivered another 11 quilts to the Social Bite Village.  For those of you new to my blog or can’t quite remember what this is about, check out my Quilt Drive Launch post here. This is the 3rd batch of quilts I’ve dropped off in the past year, totaling 39 donated