This site is dedicated to Needle lace, Stumpwork (also known as Raised Embroidery), Samplers, Counted Thread and Embroidery kits by Doreen Holmes.

You can sign up here for one of Doreen's acclaimed residential courses,
based in her beautiful Somerset farmhouse or take one of her online classes in stumpwork, needlelace and embroidery, from the comfort of your own home.

You can also purchase one of Doreen's books or kits - these include modern and reproduction samplers, counted thread, cross stitch, stumpwork (Raised Embroidery) and Needlelace kits produced under Doreen's own label - 'Leisure Needle' and the best-selling range of Stumpwork and Embroidery that Doreen designed for Pearsall's Embroidery - now owned by John and Carol of Langley Threads, in Cardiff.