Sandy Snowden

Here is the dragon I have been working on. As I worked, it seemed to develop with the oriental dragon look. I "saw" him in the ano...

Liz on the Complexcloth list asked about rust and indigo dyed cloth. I tried that this past summer. I already had rusted the fabric and wh...

Tomorrow I am seeing Simon at the library about more workshops. Here is another workshop idea...probably for the month of March, since Moth...

This morning the radio said that since the weather has been much colder this year, the snowdrops are later than they have been for some ti...

I have been working on another dragon today. But, since it isn't at the point where I want to show it yet, I will show you some dragon p...

Here we all are diving in for the "Ugly Fabric Swap" What fun! And then we had a go at transforming the fabric with stamping, mo...

One of the things about living in the part of the UK that I do is the lack of sewing supplies. Or rather that you really have to make an ef...

Today I worked on some samples for another workshop for the library. I thought these would be good for February. I am calling the workshop ...

Yesterday I posted some photos asking if you could work out what the tabs with symbols were. And here is the answer! Still don't know? W...

Here is something to make you think. Have a guess and leave a message! Tomorrow I will post what they are. I think the symbols would be aw...

Here are the rest of the journal quilts then, from the beginning. So, later in the archives, you will see them in order...unless they eventu...

April Journal Quilt - I really wanted to go for the blue background this time. I also thought I would try circles. I generally choose the c...

Okay, so these Journal quilt photos are coming onto the blog backwards, but I guess they will make sense in the future when you click on the...

This past year I have been meeting with 2 other ladies from the Contemporary Quilt Group in the Berkshire area. We all have different styles...

Here is the book cover I made with the stitched sample. In the end, I decided it really is a book cover. Partially because I wanted to use ...

I am working on samples for one of my courses again. For this sample, I am enhancing a printed fabric with Free Motion Embroidery (FME). Th...

I don't normally peel sweet potatoes before boiling; I slip the skins off after. However, I did peel them the other day. I was quite im...

Sometimes you have one of those weekends with one too many things that cut to the quick. And then, sometimes it is followed by one of those ...

While I am getting another project to the place where I can photograph it... I thought I may as well show you some more of the 2008 Journal...

This is October's journal quilt...which I also finished the stitching on this week. It is made of similar techniques to the others, but ...

Here is the " I meant to post this yesterday" blog post. (Maybe one day I will get my head back on straight! ) This is a picture ...

Here is another of the 12x12 pieces I did for the journal quilt challenge for Contemporary Quilt group . This is for November. However, what...

This was my sister Debbie at the end of October 2008, just following her 46th birthday. Around the 10th of December, she learned she had sto...

Have a Happy Christmas everyone. I will see you in the New Year. Here is the mistletoe on the tree behind our back garden to see you thro...

Tonight we had our Candlelight Carol Service at church. Here are the children from my Sunday School class all ready to go sing "Away i...