Sandy Snowden

No, not for a part in a play or for X-Factor, or anything similar. This is linked to the thoughts about samples. One of the ways I work invo...

Here are the results of the colour activity I told you I was going to do with the Monday night C+G fashion class. Everyone was quite impre...

Lace pillow photo from the camera I inherited from my son after he visited the Pitt Rivers Museum with dad.

Tomorrow for the C+G Fashion course we are going to do a version of the colour activity that I did at the C+G training day. The students we...

Back to thoughts of sampling - Another kind of sampling comes when you are experiment. As you know I frequently experiment with this and tha...

Have a bit of a wander with me... On India Flint's blog , she has posted links and a photo to an interesting care label. Links take you ...

The EquilARTeral art group I am in with Jane Glennie and Merete Hawkins will be meeting on Friday evening. With the best will in the world, ...

Yesterday, Marianne left a comment with some valid points about illustrations for instructions for making samples. "I find that these ...

One of the requirements of the City and Guilds Fashion course is making samples. Samples of techniques, trialing design ideas, and notation ...

As I said, Inspiration Tuesday is now on Mondays because I am teaching. Signs... of confusion? where is the road narrows bit if there is a r...

some of the exercises we did in Judy's workshop dealt with focal point. I found this to be very useful. First of all we looked at magazi...

Another excellent day with the ladies who came to the Thames Valley Contemporary Quilt meeting today. It is just so special to be able to me...

Not too interesting, but plans have to be made. I have been told there are 8 signed up for the C+G Fashion course. Sounds like a good numbe...

Today had 3 wonderful things in it...at least. 1 - actually from yesterday...I found a book on Fashion at the Oscars in the Library...the ...

Here are some photos of student work from the Crafts @the Library. We did Stitched Bookmarks this time. Because the groups were small, I mad...

After today, Inspiration Tuesday will be Inspiration Monday because I will be teaching on Mondays. The whole is greater than the sum of its ...

Summerset Banks has a way of organising her sewing time so that she can get some quicker projects done while working on larger projects. She...

Today I worked on the development of the project for the October Crafts @the Library...Spicy Hot Table Mats. You can find directions on how ...

This month at the Library there have been several extra events as a way of celebrating the Library's 30th birthday. Here are a few phot...

I came across this great adaptation of the idea of a corset the other day. Nifer Fahrion works in construction out in the desert. She has fo...

Even though the first Fancy Dress Costume course has been cancelled, I still want to be prepared if the others run later in the year. I fo...

Among other things today, (like arranging some interesting plans for future events for the Thames Valley Contemporary Quilt Group), I also m...

Here is another photo that was on my son's camera. I don't know if he took the photo, or my husband, but what an inspiration! I thin...

Last Sunday for the Bank Holiday weekend the people from our church brought a pack lunch and we went along to a local park for a picnic and ...

I had a very long day on Saturday going into London to the City and Guilds Headquarters. It is near the St. Bart's Hospital. It was a ve...