'How did I come to love designing guinea pigs?' I've found myself asking this question quite a lot lately as I doodle more and more of them - yes, there are more to come ...! So now we have 8…

Tutus - Here I am designing tutus. Not a far cry from designing them for my Sindy dolls when I was a child. In the book 'Living Out Loud' by Keri Smith, Keri talks about how the games we played…

Every Monday morning I buy vegetables at my local supermarket to make soup for 20 people at the community centre at the end of my road. And every Monday morning I talk to the same chirpy lady on the check…

The Doodle Threads lovely new website, (that you are looking at now), launched in October 2017. It started out with about 15 designs. 15 designs that seemed to take forever to have digitised and tested. But now look, my design…

Once I knew that my sketches and doodles would work as embroidered designs, I couldn't wait to get started. Finding the right software - well that was the next milestone. I searched, trawled the internet, trialled a couple of things…

...and how I got here, goodness knows. Nearly 3 years ago, I bought my beautiful Innovis-v3 (embroidery machine for those of you who don't sew), and after unpacking it and trying out the machine's built in patterns, I knew I…