Cotton Herringbone Tape is now available again in the shop! Use this tape when you frame up an embroidery slate or rollerframe, to enable you to pull your fabric super tight. Don't forget to use a bracing needle (new stock just arrived) to string up your frame! Tape available by the metre, bracing needles singly. Buy both here!

...pink and purple coloured metal purls for goldwork and beadwork (Brown already available). Cut them up and thread them onto a thread as you would for a bead. Click here to see more about these items.

Don't forget a velvet board to keep them on while you work! Two types available, the original velvet board and a deluxe version. Click here for more details

Pink and gold purls

Carnival mask, detail, 2006

The March/April newsletter is out now! Click on the image below to read:

More on that in a moment, I would just like to welcome anyone who has come from 'The Unbroken Thread', I hope you enjoyed reading all about my embroidery and my inspirations and I hope my website inspires you even further. If you haven't read my interview yet with Kathy Andrews from The Unbroken Thread, you can read it, lots of other information and Kathy's wonderful projects by clicking on the image below:

If you are looking for the new newsletter, it's still on the 'press' but should be with you by the end of the weekend! In it you can read all about beetle wing embroidery, check out a community seaside project, learn a new tip in my new 'Top tips!' feature and read about an artist in this issues A-Z of art.

If you are a regular visitor to my website, Facebook page, or follow me on Twitter you won't have failed to notice pictures of beautiful beetlewings. If you haven't seen them yet, then it give me a great chance to post yet another picture of them!

You can now buy your very own beetle wings from my shop. Pre-drilled wings also available ready for you to stitch on! Click here. My shop is also now available on my new look Facebook page! Visit here.

Now for 'National Doodle Day'! Even though it is National Doodle Day today, it isn't too late to get involved. It's simple: draw a doodle, pay £1 to the charity Epilepsy Action, send in your doodle and have the chance of winning some great prizes! You can also look into the deeper meanings of what your doodle might say about your personality, play doodle games, have a giggle at lots of other peoples doodles and even bid on a celebrity drawn doodle in an auction! To get involved click on the image below and get doodling for a good cause!

Winter is finally here in the UK I guess so If you like the white stuff, I hope you are out making snowmen (or snow bunnies as one of my neighbours has done on their wall!), sledging and making snow angels! The park near where I live was the busiest I have seen it since the summer; this is the view from the bottom of the hill (University of the Creative Arts in the background).

If you are not a fan, why not try some winter inspired embroidery? This would be a great time to get out these lovely iridescent snowflake sequins and work some seasonal stitching...

They are available in my shop if you are inspired! Click here. Also new in the shop this month are size 10 beading needles. Extra long, with a sharp point and long thin eye, they are great for those hand beading projects and sewing on sequins. Get yours here