Sally commenced embroidering as a small child when her mother, a Domestic Science teacher, encouraged her 6 daughters to use stitches to mark their socks and underwear with individual colours so that she could quickly identify who owned each garment. Sally continued to use embroidery for relaxation throughout her Military and Corporate Executive career. In 2018 she travelled from her home in Australia to Hampton Court Palace to complete the RSN Certificate and some Diploma subjects via Summer Intensive classes.

Sally then decided she would rather be working at something she loved and packed up her home and moved to the U.K. to join the Future Tutors Programme. Throughout her training she taught Learning Curve classes at Knitting and Stitching shows in London and Harrogate, demonstrated embroidery at RSN sponsored events, and had her work included in RSN exhibitions. She also assisted tutoring on Certificate & Diploma Summer Intensives and International Summer School classes. Sally was a finalist in the Hand and Lock Prize for Embroidery 2022 Textile Art Student category.

She graduated in July 2022 from the RSN Future Tutors Programme, as a qualified RSN tutor. Sally then spent further time in the UK consolidating her embroidery skills. In 2023, Sally was honoured to be part of the Embroidery Studio team at the Royal School of Needlework who worked on the Anointing Screen for the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Sally has now returned to Australia, and is based in Brisbane where she has established an embroidery teaching studio, which is the RSN satellite in Australia. Sally teaches both in person and online RSN classes from this studio, and she is excited to be able to bring RSN classes to embroiderers who find the Australian timezone suits.

She is looking forward to tutoring on the inaugural RSN Certificate & Diploma Intensive Program to be taught in-person in Brisbane, Australia in July 2024.