Sandy Snowden

Today is the bank holiday, so I worked on my piece for the Fast Friday Challenge . I was the host this time. I wanted to get it done before ...

So after singing the praises of digital cameras, mine has finally died. I don't know how long I have had it, but I know I was using it t...

Just a photo of my journal quilts from the Contemporary Quilt group last year which were at the Festival of Quilts. The area where they hun...

A view of the progress so far on the Letter piece. I have begun to do the stitching in the side portions now. At some point I will cover th...

Here is a detail of what I am doing with the letters quilted into this piece. They are basically coloured in with metallic colours. I did co...

Today I got back to working on the Letter piece from the Zoom series for the EquilARTeral group. The vine has really taken over. I decided ...

Pumpkin Mouse - by Fairyfolk I don't normally post 2 times in one day, but I thought I would tell you about a voting going on for a swee...

And finally here is the finished Flight of Dragon piece. And just in time! The new Fast Friday challenge starts at the end of the week. I a...

I made a bit of progress with Flight of Dragons today. It has taken a while to stitch round the swirly clouds and cut them back with a solde...

Just stopping in for a quick post after getting back from the Festival Of Quilts yesterday. It was a very great time. I met up with loads o...

I mentioned a while ago that the Doodle Day Blog and the Today's Title Blog have merged. It is now the Ideas of Inspiration . There is a...

Here are some of the coasters made in the Charming Fabric Coasters workshop for Crafts @the Library this week. Being August, the groups wer...

I find the patterns discovered from past architects fascinating. Often you see quite a lot of detail that people can't be bothered to do...

Not much progress on the cushion, but I found a butterfly at the market which was just the right colour. It just had the sequins, so blende...

Last week, on Tuesday, I went to a coffee morning put on by Region 7 (British Quilt Guild). The speaker was Jenny Bowker . Joan, the lady wh...

This month some of the regular features like Inspiration Tuesday and Featured Blog are a bit hit and miss. With it being the holidays, I am ...

Today I popped into town this afternoon for thread, zips and loads of other things. Somehow, I left the thread! and the couple of bits I tho...

I have an idea of doing a sort of fabric manipulation with the folded cushion cover concept, but at present, I have been trying to get my he...

Cushion 2 The cushion I had started to cut out from the green brocade is finished. I was trying an idea I saw in a book for an envelope styl...

Here is the finished Cushion. I used a thick gold thread to stitch long broken lines across the main part of the design. I won't be teac...

A glimpse of what I have been working on... Cushion Samples for the Designer Cushions course. This cover has foiling and paintsticks rubbin...

In the last post I mentioned the embroidery from Tiny Happy. I have also been noticing alot of other hand embroidery going on. For instance,...

The Featured Blog for this weekend is Tiny Happy . The author of Tiny Happy is a lady who recently returned to New Zealand from living in No...

Well, we actually got back on Monday, but I have taken a few more days off to just read, get together with friends and putter about. Today I...

I got most of the stitching on the Letter piece done. But we have decided to visit my husband's family, so it will have to wait to be fi...