During her 3 years on the FTP she embraced the diversity of embroidery techniques, explored colour, texture, and design, and developed her own style of embroidered abstracts.  She has set up exhibitions, delivered learning curve classes, and demonstrated fine hand embroidery at the Knitting at Stitching Shows in London and Harrogate, and at the Sunbury Embroidery Gallery.  She has stitched on the Red Dress Project and was part of the FTP team who exclusively designed and stitched a new altar frontal for the St Paul Old Ford Church.  She has run family drop-in sessions at the Fashion and Textile Museum, the Guildhall Art Gallery and Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland, and she has taught RSN Day Classes, and on the Certificate & Diploma Programme including the Summer Intensive courses.  She has also assisted on the International Summer School at Hampton Court Palace and day classes at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace. 

 

Sonia’s work has been included in RSN exhibitions at Hampton Court Palace and the Sunbury Embroidery Gallery, and her work was chosen for the Broderers’ Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery in London in 2022.

 

She is a keen textiles recycler and embraces repairing, reusing and remaking. She volunteers at her local Repair Café as a textile’s repairer, fixing items where possible, and teaching clients how to repair their own garments.  She loves to experiment, investigating how traditional techniques can be used in new ways and is looking forward to encouraging her students to try new approaches.

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In 2023, Sonia 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.