Sandy Snowden

Sometimes planning is about auditioning. Will these work or will they change?

Apologies for missing Thankful Thursday this week. I am at the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace in London. Stewarding for th...

Sorry for the long silence.  Struggling a bit with spending much time on the computer because my right eye, which was getting rather blurry,...

Coming across things you 'must have' on holiday. -If you have been in Dorset,  you need fossils ...and because they are also se...

In January, when InStitches came to the TVCT meeting , I fell in love with their threads. But I didn't have the money. (not that they ar...

I mentioned the weaving sticks Caroline Marriot was selling on Saturday. (my fingers want to type stitch so end up typing stitcks!) This ...

This year I didn't have as much money saved up because of going to America earlier in the year. But being very judicious, I managed to g...

Edging on the bottom and side slits You can see some of the bead stacks on the joins. Subtle. I used this thread for the edging of the he...

I hope your vision of me over the weekend was stitching the zigzag on the edges of each of these pieces. We aren't discussing how many ...

So, now that I chopped out the pieces of the pattern and the mull together, I am ready to cut out the fashion fabric. In this photo, I h...

Every work like this gown starts with auditioning fabrics and threads to see who gets to have a role in the main act! The blueish dark o...

After the success of the top part of the tree, I thought I may as well carry on experimenting whilst doing the trunk. I had finally found ...

Oh yes, how long did it take to make the tree part I showed you yesterday? Several wonderful drawing-with-the-machine hours! The thread on...

Today I was at the Knitting and Stitching Show. Very tired. But happy with what I saw and what I purchased. I helped at the Quilt Guild Stan...

Today I got my poorly machine back from the doctor again. It was doing a little blind hem stitch dance and then kept chuntering along even w...