Jo Avery – the Blog

Pro Guide to Quilting and a new basting tool

  Have you seen this new ‘bookazine’? The Pro Guide to Quilting is the latest in a series of guides from the same people who make Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine. It’s actually much more like a book than a magazine and is absolutely packed full (163 pages!) of information, tips and tutorials all about

Stitch Gathering Workshops

Earlier this week we released this year’s Stitch Gathering Retreat workshops. I think we’ve got a really good spread of projects, most of which can be finished during the class and with a good range of skill levels to suit all. But I’d love to know what you think! First up are Fiona’s two workshops: Apple

FAL 2nd Quarter

Just snuck in to this quarters Finish-a-long!  With just a few hours to go before the deadline I am listing again the UFOs that I failed dismally to finish last quarter. I only managed to finish one of the six projects I listed at the beginning of the year and so I am featuring them

Stitch Gathering tickets are…

…ON SALE NOW!!! Just head over to the Stitch Gathering website for more info and follow this link to purchase one! Last year was a total blast so we can’t wait to do it all over again, and I’d love even more of my lovely readers to join us this year! We’re delighted to welcome

More Stitch Gathering News!

I am so excited about this year’s Stitch Gathering! Not only will we get to do it all again, but this year is going to be EVEN better! everyone hard at work in the morning workshops We have changed the venue to Napier’s Craiglockhart Campus. This is situated a little further to the south of

FAL 2014 – I am joining in!

I only managed to take part in the first quarter of last year’s finish-along, and only managed to finish 2 things! How useless am I? To tell you the truth I am actually quite a good finisher so I don’t usually have loads of projects to add. But this year I seem to have found

Angels and Snowmen

Phew! Things have been a bit hectic around here recently and therefore a bit too quiet on the blog. So I thought I would do a bit of a round-up post to tell you all what I have been up to. First of all I have been doing a lot of classes, including a new

Christmas Crafts and a special Mini Retreat Day!

We’ve been feeling very festive around here this week as we prepare for a bumper season of Christmas Crafts! Not only do I have some new Bearpaw Christmas Craft Classes to share with you, but we’ve also gone and organised a new Stitch Gathering Mini Retreat Day!  We just couldn’t wait another year to do

Exhibition Winners

Our Scottish Modern Quilt Exhibition, which ran as part of the Edinburgh Fringe this year, was a great success. Visitors from all over the world came to see the quilts. And everyone seemed very impressed and interested in all the exhibits. We asked all our visitors to vote for their favourite quilt, not an easy