I have been knitting for more than 30 years, and began sewing (mostly dressing up costumes) after my daughter was born in 1997. Making things for and with my daughter really got my creative juices going and i wanted to do more than simply follow commercial patterns. SoI took an Art and Design course with the Open College of Arts in 2003/4.

I have fun playing with a wide range of textiles techniques. I continue with the knitting I've been doing since childhood, but also taught myself to crochet earlier this year, and experiment with felting hand knitted and crocheted items.
I also weave, braid, sew,embroider and make fabric books.

 However, my greatest love is dyeing, particularly shibori dyeing. I use both procion dyes and, when the weather is good enough to work outside so I don't smell the house out, indigo dye. Cutting the stitches on a shibori piece that has been laboriously hand-stitched for days before dyeing and opening it up to see the hidden pattern is, quite simply, pure magic.