'Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones'

I arrived in Gloucestershire with my lovely husband Ben one January on the sea breeze from North Devon. We have made a home in Cheltenham, and it is from my lovely home studio here that I draw, stitch, make and create.

I grew up in The Potteries, Staffordshire, leaving at 19 to study Textile Design at Falmouth University in Cornwall. After graduating, I hopped over the border to settle for a year by the beautiful North Devon Coast before spending an amazing, exciting year spent travelling the world. I've flitted around a lot over the last 5 years, but wherever I am, I always feel at home with needle and thread in hand, working on something lovely in an embroidery hoop.

Grace Gatley Textiles (the business) was born in 2013 when in a bid to put down some sturdy Cotswold roots and integrate myself into the community, I began making to sell (rather than making because I love!) in a couple of local art and craft boutiques and at farmers' markets.

'Lovely Words' feature feature heavily in all of my pieces, from cute quotes and little phrases that conjure a smile, to the beautiful words from old hymns and passages of scripture from the Bible.