Sandy Snowden

A few weeks ago when I was trying the snowdyeing lark, I received an email from Emma Forbes at Dylon Dyes . They had come across the blog du...

Sometime back I did a study of a dragon claw for the Fast Friday challenge. I never finished off the edges. All last year, I kept it in res...

Sometime back there was an article in the Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine (Winter 2006 issue 9) which showed how artist, Debbie Crane, had ...

As promised, the EquilARTeral blog is up. Not much yet, but info on the exhibit at Slough Museum . I hope to get some photos when we hang t...

I was recovered enough today to do the Craft @the Library. However, the brain was still a bit fried, and I forgot the camera. Sheila and Nor...

Well, today sort of got lost in a darkened room. I had another terrible head and even had to cancel the workshop in the library at Birch Hil...

Part of the loom from the silk mill. I think old machinery is interesting. They used aesthetics as well as function when designing the parts...

Sorry for no posting yesterday, it was a long day. On Saturday I went out and about with a coach load of ladies from the college. Most were ...

Through some connections Jane Glennie has, our art group EquilARTeral has been offered the chance to exhibit work at the Slough Museum ! As ...

Another step on the Staffordshire Hoard piece: The stitch-like grass that works to push the edges of the pieces back into the ground - so to...

A couple more steps for the Staffordshire Hoard piece. Brown felt round some edges. Gold leather with garnet stone chips. and starting to do...

I have worked off and on stitching the parts for my piece based on the Staffordshire Hoard . This is the project the EquilARTeral group has ...

This flash of colour from the car park in the street behind our house caught my eye through our window, so I had to go capture it before the...

I don't know if you have heard of Remnant House in Harrogate, but they do a little catalogue with verbal descriptions of odds and ends ...

I have been working on the Slow Cloth now and then over the past weeks and months. This week I did quite a bit more. I cut quite a few piece...

The overdyeing is in process. In the small container is the piece like no.1 from yesterday that I was already overdyeing. This time I am lea...

Mixed results for the snow dyeing, so mixed feelings about it. because I was experimenting, the fabrics were varied, as was the pre-treatmen...

Today I tried a new dyeing technique I have been hearing about. It is called "snow dyeing". Last year, I read about a lot of Ameri...

Okay, I am sure you are tired of snow. But just go see what this "green and pleasant land" has been looking like and you will see...

View from My studio window. Normally, Inspiration Monday comes because I am busy getting sorted for teaching on Monday evening. But the coll...