Jo Avery's CREATIVE CORNER

Back in the 1990s I was involved in the Green Quilt Movement. This was during the first serious wave of concern about our planet and climate change when the hole was discovered in the ozone layer and it was becoming more apparent that the earth was warming. I was one of the people that took this very seriously and was forever banging on about it to others. This didn’t make me very popular and so I turned to my other great passion and tried communicating through my quilts instead.

I discovered the Green Quilt Movement when I went to an exhibition of Contemporary American Quilts at the Craft Council in London. I was very struck by a Susan Shie quilt which was described as a Green Quilt. Susan was one of the founders