Its been a crazy few weeks with everyone learning to adjust and cope with all the new changes and restrictions. During the first few weeks of Lockdown I found it hard to focus on work. Everything felt grey and pointless. I was craving colour and vibrancy and so after playing around with ideas in sketchbooks I decided to create a range of smaller colourful hoops to brighten up my feed and hopefully my followers mood too!

I'm calling them 'Windows to the World, as each hoop is like a little aperture capturing something beautiful.

Each hoop is is between eight and twelve inches and features a different little colorful creature.

They've been proving super popular to and selling like hot cakes.

My two most recent hoops were these little Bees. also used them for my April Aurifil Artisan challenge which was to showcase my favourite weight of Aurifil thread. For me its always been 50wt.

As an embroidery artist you need a huge range of colours in order to create that hyper-realistic look. Aurifil have them all!!

50 wt Thread adds precision and accuracy to my work whilst also being strong enough to stitch through all those layers of applique. its quite simply the best!!!