Welcome to my website! Do have a look around the gallery and read some of my blog posts to hear about my creative work.

I call myself a Storymaker because it seems the best way of describing what I do. Sometimes I write stories, sometimes I illustrate them. I create characters and worlds through drawing, dollmaking, sewing or knitting. ‘Storymaker’ seems to weave all of the varied threads of my work into the one piece of fabric that is me.

For all of you doll-lovers and doll-makers out there, I also have a website especially for my doll-making work: https://stoffoli.com/

A Place to Knit: Jumper 16

So, this is the end of the project. I feel quite sad to be finishing, it’s been great fun and a wonderful challenge. I made this patchwork design to use up the ends of the yarns; not quite enough of any single shade to make the last jumper, so a mix of all of them.…

Projects

The flexibility to work on a variety of projects is something that I really enjoy and value about my creative work. I might be focusing on drawing and writing one month, then illustrating with textiles the next. Here is just a taste of the projects I have recently been involved with, and links to further…

Awards

That sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Well, it is. So I thought I’d shout about it a little here. In 2018 I was awarded the Margret Carey Illustration Scholarship for my above work on ‘A Tapestry Tail’. You can read all about the scholarship in my blog post here. I also won the 2018 Moniack Mhor…