Sandy Snowden

I wore the red moleskin skirt yesterday. Managed to get the Thoughtful Man to take a photo. Keep in mind that I wore it to church and to ma...

A while ago I was sewing along with a Pattern Review Wardrobe Contest . Then had to stop and work on textile art things. My wardrobe was bas...

I wanted to fill a few gaps in my wardrobe. I haven't much by way of clothing that works for in-between winter and summer. I started som...

Today's piece of the wardrobe is an off-white gabardine trumpet skirt with a faced waist finish. Trumpet skirts fit to the hip and flar...

Auditions have been taking place in my studio...fabrics that is. That is what it is called when you are having a look at whether this fabric...

I have been working on the skirt of this ensemble for Fashion Sans Frontieres. I used the length of fabric I had left from the blouse and p...

I haven't had a chance to refashion much lately because of some of the other things I have been doing. I got a reminder from Re-fashion ...

I have some more skirts finished. This photo includes 15-19 most of which were cut and sewn in August, but needed elastic. The greenis...

So, now that I have caught up with the blouses I had cut out, I am taking time out to do some more skirts for the girls in the orphan villag...

I finally got the finishing steps done on the two skirts I started a few weeks ago. One needed a zip and I didn't have any darker zips...

...the thin blue skirt has become a thin blue blouse. Wow does it ever feel nice on! It has that soft worn feel that cotton can get. And f...

This skirt keeps making an appearance while I am shifting fabrics and patterns. So I decided it was time to refashion it. I think I picked i...

So, I decided because of the loose weave of the blue skirt, I really could do with a lining. Well, I wanted one, so there. Anyway, I got ou...

Today I have been doing a bit of puttering and sorting whilst listening to the 5th test match of the cricket. I also cut out 2 more skirts...

I have been doing a few finishes today. Sorting the back pleat on one of the skirts I made. Somehow the way I caught the lining down made it...

Now that I have the busy time of the year out of the way, I want to make a few more things to send to my friend in Ethiopia for the over 10...

I realised I didn't have enough time to do the review on these skirts because I was still doing some bits and pieces for the contest til...

getting the photos up to link to quickly before bed. Blue skirt - finished. This started out life as fabric I bought at Bombay Fabrics in ...

Tonight is the deadline for the Fabric Stash contest. At the time of this writing over 975 yards have been sewn by a little over 80 members ...

I finished another one of the winter skirts I started in January. Some how I am beginning to think that if I don't get them done we will...