About the Artist

My name is Margaret Howard and I trained at University as a Biochemist eventually gaining a PhD in haematological biochemistry. I spent some 20 years as a medical researcher in Melbourne Australia and enjoyed this career enormously. I then retired from medical research to help my husband develop a software company selling software which he and his team of software engineers had written. This company is now in its 17th year and continues to trade successfully.

Throughout this time I have always had a keen interest in many craft activities. When my children were growing up this often took the form of making clothes and dress-ups for them. However once the children no longer needed my sewing services I began exploring other crafts and have enjoyed card making, embroidery, crocheting and knitting, book binding and many other crafts.

I then went to a felt making class and I was hooked. I loved the simplicity and magic of the process and the speed with which a piece of felt can be made. However once I had a piece of felt I needed to do something with it and through a process of trial and error I started embroidering and beading my felt and have slowly developed a collection of pieces of which I am very proud and which I now offer for sale though my store.

Please feel free to browse the gallery and my store. I will be delighted to have your comments which you can send to me at my contact address. I look forward to hearing from you.

Did you know?

Felt dates back to at least 6,500 BC where remains were found in Turkey. Highly sophisticated felted artefacts were found preserved in permafrost in a tomb in Siberia and dated to 600 AD.