I have a life long love of creating out of fabric, have always been fascinated by sewing machines and luckily was allowed to use them as a child.

After a career in education and then bringing up my family I made my first quilt in 1998, joined the Quilters Guild and embarked on a programme of City and Guilds Courses.
I was awarded a Highly Commended Certificate in 2000 and won the Charles Henry Foyle Award for Stitched Textiles with “On to the Eastward” my interpretation of the theme Maelstrom in 2006.

I followed the development of home printing on textiles with the invention of bubble jet set and discovered new ways of designing using computer software.

I was brought up in North Yorkshire and now live in the Cotswolds so inevitably the landscape, rocks, cliffs, stone walls and their textures have become the inspiration for my pieces along with remembered verse and writing.

I design and make wall hangings, quilts, clothing and accessories to commission and give talks about my work.

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