Sandy Snowden

The machine embrodiery students are beginning to think about a project. One lady is hoping to make a quilt inspired by a Klimpt painting. Sh...

A while back when I did the Fire Creatures in my dragon series, I thought about doing a cat. I am not a cat person, but I was thinking how i...

i had been toying with the idea of dinosaurs and dragons. What if dinosaurs really were dragons? So, when I was playing with scraps from...

A "replica" sampler my sister had at her house. I just loved the sentiment.

When I was in America, I took the dragon journal quilts to show off. The one I was not as pleased with was the quilt with the tree fungi ...

So today I enlarged the corset pattern more - adding 10 inches width and 5 inches depth. I think it is more the size I envisaged. Then I r...

Now that the journals for 2010 are done, I want to get some headway with the piece for the Slough Museum project . I thought I had shown t...

When I was stuck in America, I asked my sister for some scraps to make something. I needed to do something "normal." So, she had...

Here is the dragon I finished for November the other day. It almost took me as long to write the story, as it wanted to be very complicated!...

Last week between getting back from America and rushing off to Yorkshire, I made 2 little books for presents. I used the instructions Margar...

Well at long last I am here again. Very eventful 2 weeks! The Saga of December It took 24 hours to get from my house to my sister's ...

My dad is doing better but is still in ICU. SO I am off to see him. and my wonderful sister who has been looking after everyone. Perhaps...

Yesterday, we were glad the weather had warmed a bit. Some of us from the church advertised our Candlelight Christmas Carol Service coming u...

Wednesday at the Machine Embroidery class - A bit of stitching and then a bit of zapping with a heat gun and look! And then to...

On Monday, the ladies who are doing the first year of the level 2 City and Guilds Fashion (7112) were very excited to get onto the drafting ...

So the snow came. I had to cancel my hospital appointment because I didn't want to drive to Slough in the weather/traffic conditions. So...

So in the Machine Embroidery Class, we did get to stitch on paper and metal before the snow came. (Then a lot of turmoil with a family situa...

Lately things have been a bit fraught with a few things where I work. You don't actually realise how it zaps your energy until it starts...