Sandy Snowden

This month I finished this piece for the Stretching Art and Tradition 2020 exhibition. I didn’t get around to photos straight away because I...

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...

The piece I did last year for Stretching Art has returned this week. Sewing Large. Makes me want to do another version. The first one w...

I had left the hand stitching in the area of the needle til after it was on, because I didn't want to fuse the appliqué over any surface...

So, to replicate the needle - traced onto adhesive web. I used the Bondaweb (I think it is called Wonder Under in America.) because it ...

The 'new' quilt... well I left you in limbo. I  have been working on it!   I have been trying to do this 'pacing' thing t...

So, having solved the issues of sewing from the back for the squares, I realised it would not be easy to do the next step. The background ...

So, bobbinwork. This is not so hard - other than the technical aspect of working out how your machine can do it - when you are working from...

So, moving on from the sampling, I laid out the top fabric, the batting, and the bottom fabric. Plus a couple scraps still on the table from...

Starting on my piece for next year's Stretching Art challenge , called Under Scrutiny. I am in need of doing something that doesn'...

...otherwise known as Dancing with Sewing Machines. Why? Because I had to give it a title before it was really started. Anyway it is f...

For the quilting for this piece I decided to use words of encouragement and blessing. Here is a detail. and the whole before being bound. ...

The machines have arrived for the ladies. They are going to stay in their boxes. The pink surround doesn't count, it is the excess of...

The normal dance of where pieces want to be positioned! I find it easier to work out if it is right when I take photos...especially as m...

The ladies...waiting for the machines. Deciding what I am putting in the middle a larger dancing lady or a stack of machine boxes?

Ladies dancing with sewing machines

And it is even in the post. I used a grassy print fabric with a touch of gold to bind the edge. Not easy to get right because the backgrou...

Thanks for the comments about the meal. It was wonderful. A Certain Young Man excelled at the turkey. He had read about brushing the skin wi...

One (among many things this spring and summer!) of the delays on this piece was that I was not quite happy with the selection of browns I h...