Sandy Snowden

Metal offcuts in the jewellery studio at South Hill Park. One of the random attractions on the tour we had the other week. Anything copper...

Being in a different country to where Thankgiving is celebrated means that it is difficult to do it justice on a Thursday. So, we generally ...

Another paperwork day, But a bit of time for some Christmas trees tonight.The top ones have a light green pearl colour. the blue ones have b...

This coming Monday in our C+G class we will start drafting the skirt block from personal measurements. Although I can do this and do it some...

Way back here I tried to work out the best way to do a greyscale using dyes which would work in my C+G classroom session. I opted for a 4th...

A bit more work on decorations for the fund raiser . Instead of beads, I am using dots of gold paint. Nice mindless work to do whilst liste...

Italian Gardens at South Hill Park. I am thinking stencil, screen print, patchwork, etc. Any other ideas?

Here is a doodle I have been working on in fits and starts for sometime. At first, I did a bit of a "what if" thing. I took a ber...

Today TVCQ had our November meeting. In the morning, member and author Linda Seward, talked about her experiences as an editor and writer of...

Today was a bit of a paperwork day; agendas and maps for tomorrow's Thames Valley Contemporary Quilt Group meeting... lesson plans for M...

Way back in September, I started the preliminaries for the last piece in the Connect-Disconnect series I am doing with EquilARTeral. Finall...

Yesterday and today I taught the Crafts @the Library sessions. Here are photos of the student's work. Birch Hill - Dorothy, Annette, N...

C+G Creative Techniques: Fashion class Some of the students working hard at sample making. They had just drafted a facing from a small scal...

What has been happening in these woods? Are the trees playing games?

Saturday was a bit busy. My husband had several men from our church round for breakfast. No , I did not get up and do it, though I used to s...

I haven't done a featured blog for some time. I was running out of interesting ones who posted regularly! Anyway, one of the blogs I hav...

I am trying out a few ideas of things to make for the charity Christmas Boutique . Here are a few tree decorations. The thing is, if I am go...

Not really connected, but here is what I went into town in the rain for today. Candles for next week's workshop for Crafts @the Library ...

Next week we are working on waistband samples in the City and Guilds Fashion Course. In the older version of the programme, a straight waist...

And here is the completed Celtic Dragon. I thought I would try out echo quilting. I haven't done much of that before. The varigated gol...

Here is an idea for you. Take a photo of an item that is commonly seen. Play with it in a paint programme. And you create more of an iconic ...

Just stopping to remember. I'm thankful for those who were willing to serve for our freedom.

All the painting done for the Celtic Dragon. You can see the adaptations I made after the trial ideas on the photocopy. Next step to sandw...

Here is what has started to happen on the worktable. It is a Celtic motif from a design book I recently got secondhand. The animal head look...

As I said last week I went with my husband to the book binding exhibition at the Bodleian in Oxford. I wanted to see this book in particular...