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Dame Fiona Reynolds and Louise Gardiner holding 'A National Treasure'
bought for the National Trust Manchester Office 2011.
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    • I have just completed an exciting ad campaign for Kettlechips.  Please see the commissions section of my website.
    • I was selected to exhibit a large installation of my work at COLLECT The Saatchi GalleryMay 2012.  COLLECT is the premier annual fair in Europe for international contemporary craft of museum quality curated by the Crafts Council.  Please see the short film on the commissions page 'You Blow me Away.' 
 
  • Thanks to everyone who voted in The Craft and Design Magazine Awards.  I won the Gold in the Textiles category and the overall prize 'Maker of the year 2012.' Woop!
  • I have a range of Limited Edition Prints available in my shop and soon I will be launching a collection of silk scarves.     Watch this space!
  • I am always working on an eclectic mix of commissions and have just completed a large embroidered artwork for The Royal Oldham Children's Hospital.  Please see the commissions section of my website. 
  • In November 2010 I was featured on 'Kirstie's Homemade Home' teaching Kirstie Allsopp a Master Class on how to draw with a sewing machine.  Kirstie exclaimed that Machine embroidery was the 'crack cocaine of craft!'.  Kirsty and I will be getting together again to launch a Kettlechips Craft Competition in March 2013. 
  •  I will be hosting two SUPERSTITCHERS Courses this year at Quarry Bank Mill.  Please see the workshop page for dates and a booking form.