Sandy Snowden

A glimpse... Halfway through quilting. Hope to finish a work on binding today.

Margins I am working on a Ramshackle piece for Stretching Art and Tradition 20. The theme is Community. So, perfect for an idea I have had...

Update on the Sister Artists project. “Exciting news - the dates for the exhibit at the New England Quilt Museum have been set. 1 - ‪4 Apr...

If you are in Washington DC tomorrow...head to the Textile Museum.  😁 My collaborative piece ‘Hunting with Husband’ will be part of a one...

The backing and binding have been put on. The statement written. And parcelling sorted. Now it is on the way to its destination. Road R...

And so the boy has been built. I sketched him out and then cut the sketch apart to use as a pattern. And here he is.

Some of my quiet here has been due to being busily stitching on my piece for the Contemporary Quilt Suitcase collection. As you may know, I ...

Starting a new stitching. This one for ‘On the Road’ Contemporary Quilt’s new suitcase collection. I was going to do some sewing for me, bu...

The binding is on. The label and the sleeve on the back. And the parcelling up has been done. And the parcel started its journey to Was...

Sister Artists And the front! Today I have been stitching the backing on...(while I sat for nearly 2 hours waiting at the hospital eye ...

So, teasing a bit, I have finished the embroidery. All that is left is backing and binding. I hadn’t planned to put a backing and I really...

close up of greenery in the foreground. The fringe of the precious fabric (which didn’t work for this project). I turned the fringe upsi...

I am nearing the last of the stitching now. This is a closeup of the stitching on the tree leaves. The fabric I used was actually shrubb...

so to the leaves for the trees. I had a precious piece of fabric I knew was the right colour for the leaves. I cut it into sections that ...

Next step: I wanted to make trees on either side of the scene. I liked the idea of something like bark cloth. But rather than the brick col...

Sister Artists- next step has been the side borders. I had this South African shwe shwe print that picked up more colour from the embroidery...

Now I have added the bottom border. I chose this African print from Tanzania. It brings it some of the colours of the embroidery.  Runnin...

I have still been working on the embroidery from Mali.  The kantha stitching with white sewing cotton is finished. I have placed a bati...

one of the things occupying my time while at Festival of Quilts was to help at the Sew Powerful stand. This company has been involved in sup...

The last few weeks I have been making progress with the Sister Artists embroidery from Mali .  I wanted to give some texture, so I deci...