About Me

My childhood was filled with beautiful books and a rambling garden that inspired my passion for all things feminine and pretty. With an innate need to embellish practical things, the tactile art of embroidery has provided the perfect medium for me to create delightful scenes filled with creatures, flowers, butterflies, and birds – and all with just a touch of whimsy for which I have become so well known!

When I was twelve, my mother introduced me to stitching, but it was when my first daughter was born that I truly discovered the delight of embroidery, and it soon became my abiding passion.

I love creating embroidered stories that contain intricate, stitched details, so that each time you look, you will see something new. I love to share the charming art of making magical creatures leap off the background with silk thread, chenille, velvet, metal ribbon, sequins, feathers, beads, and organza; some of the beautiful materials I use in my designs.

I have four children and a grandson.

Teaching

I teach embroidery in Adelaide at The Bobbin Tree, and in Melbourne, at The Embroidery Den. I have just returned from teaching in London, with Needlework Tours & Cruises.

My Designs

Most of my designs are available in PDF format. Some are available with printed fabric panel, and a few are available as full kits or with charm packs, with printed fabric panel.

If there's a design of mine you can't find here, please contact me.

My designs have been published in many different magazines over the last thirty years, and are often published in Inspirations magazines.

Acknowledgment of Country

Most of my designs are created on Paramangk country, where I work and stitch. I acknowledge the Paramangk and Kaurna people as the custodians of the Adelaide and environs regions, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still important to the living Kaurna and Paramangk people today.