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Mary Rogovin's avatar

Love seeing you on Substack!

Jo Avery's avatar

thank you so much Mary!

Amanda's avatar

Loved the trees and moon and colour combinations. Thanks for sharing

Jo Avery's avatar

oh thank you Amanda! My first comment :D

Beth's avatar

I love your work. Do you fold over your edges before sewing or leave them to fray?

Jo Avery's avatar

Thank you Beth! I always fold over the edges, I have a bit of a personal issue with raw edges showing!

Stephanie's avatar

Love the trees! I just started getting into substack. My sister sent me a article to read and now I am on substack more than intsagram. It's really scary if you live in America. I spend less time on Facebook more and more.

Jo Avery's avatar

thank you Stephanie and that is good to hear! I am pleased I took the plunge here and I feel it is encouraging me to write more posts!

Giuliana Nakashima's avatar

I too live in the U.S. (united? Really, maybe we are the D.S. Now (divided states) lol. I will look for an article on Substack, I really don’t use instagram and only use FB when I have too. Thanks for mentioning the article.

Lesley Seddon's avatar

Love these ... support my mood at the moment ! Trying to get my cro-jo, sew-jo, knit-jo and quilt-jo back at the mo. So hopefully a Jo-jo will kick start it all xx

Jo Avery's avatar

haha! I hope so Lesley, I like the idea of a Jo-jo!! I'm sometimes called that :)

Susan Hemann's avatar

absolutely love your trees!

Jo Avery's avatar

thanks you Susan!

Kris's avatar

I love these! 💞 thank you for sharing.

Jo Avery's avatar

you are welcome, thank you for commenting!

Mary Orencole's avatar

So great to see you on this Jo! Will spread the word 🧵🧵🪡

Jo Avery's avatar

thank you so much Mary!

EricaSpinks's avatar

Such an interesting post, Jo. Thank you. I hope you continue to post on your website and not rely solely on Substack. It is, after all, just another social media platform that we can’t control.

Jo Avery's avatar

Good point Erica! I will certainly keep on posting to my own blog and not rely on anyone platform too much, lesson learnt already! Thanks :)

Brigitte's avatar

This is wonderful! I really want to try it. I recently finished stitching your Aurifil Lab pillow top and need something new.

Jo Avery's avatar

thank you Brigitte! Why not give it a go? If you managed the Aurifil Lab pillow then this should be easy!

Kimberley's avatar

Jo, what fabric do you use on your trees? I asusmenits cotton but it also appears to be linen

Linda Dodson's avatar

Needle work has helped me during these very trying times. So glad I found you Jo Avery!!

Claire Chalcraft's avatar

I really enjoyed reading this post Jo - it's so generous of you to share your process and I was fascinated to read about how you developed this series. I am also a newbie to Substack and am thinking along similar lines to you with reference to Meta and the general "state of the world". I have not as yet been brave enough to publish anything here yet, but ideas are brewing and I'm looking forward to getting my "technical" ducks, as it were, in order sufficiently well to streamline work over various online platforms including instagram, facebook, website, mailchimp, stripe, etc etc (my brain hurts just thinking about it - I'm heading back to my stitching refuge;) best wishes - Claire (@chalcraftdesign elsewhere)

Giuliana Nakashima's avatar

Always inspired by your work, and I have a special affinity for all things lunar. Working on a project moon related and a completely different tree idea so this was especially inspiring. Hope to someday take a class with you. I rarely do “hand” work, but you are drawing me in!