Sandy Snowden

So, on another blog I am joining in with a lady who does photo prompts. It is mainly a group of friends, but I stumbled onto her blog throug...

I was going to catch up Tuesday, but I had a migraine. and of course Mon and Wed are all about getting ready to teach. Anyway, Saturday mo...

covering the edge I had two varigated threads that were of pretty much the same colour. The YLI thread was quite a bit thicker, as it is f...

Uncle Stan's Bicycle! The Ice Cream needs some chocolate sprinkles and the wee girly needs some specks of dirt she can pretend is choc...

getting going with the stitching I am not sure how I will quilt the back yet, so I shall save that to think of during those awake in the ni...

bicycles and ice cream! beginning to get there!

bicycles and ice creams! watch this space

So! My friend Jane, having been given the task of organising the project our Thames Valley Contemporary Quilt group is doing with the Slough...

tracing off plans for a new dragon. Sometimes when an image isn't quite right, if you reverse it, you can see what needs adjusting. I ...

Having at last reached half-term - I'm not teaching again until 1 November - and using yesterday for doctor visits, I am at last ready t...

At last, finished and revealed at the meeting. The EquilARTeral Meeting Point Triangles. My "suspension bridge" (although I am ...

So the cord isn't quite behaving as I would like. Too stiff to drape and yet not stiff enough to be straight. So, I put some dangley bit...

I am doing something with the triangles. Here is the idea for the cord to run between triangles. I hope to finish it this week. Not sure ...

I had a very sore feet day at Knit and Stitch, but met some great people whilst manning the Guild Stand. I wasn't actually right on the ...

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. Just busy with new starts of courses for college. The 2 taster sessions had nearly as much p...

Tonight we explored colour schemes by using dyes. These were Dylon hand dyes mixed up and dropped with pipettes onto fabrics. The first ye...

Thanks to Steph, a fine young lady, I have some photos of my talk today in Old Welwyn, Hertfordshire. Basically imagine me babbling on. But ...

Today - getting ready for a talk about my wearable art at the Region 7 day tomorrow at Old Welwyn and a tiny bit of stitching on springs.

The last 2 Wednesdays I have taught a Free Machine Embroidery Session at the New Directions Caversham centre. I forgot to take photos last ...

One of the ways you can get a better idea of colour is to actually sort things into their places on the colour wheel. If you use something r...

Sometime back I told you about a piece in my Communications series that I had made for the SAQA auction. The auction started last week and m...