Sandy Snowden

The 31st October would have been the deadline for this work if I entered it into SAQA Forced to Flee. But although the theme seems just made...

week 43 - 2018 bead on fabric It is becoming very clear that one year doesn't take up as much space as somehow I thought it would!...

Cow 94 "Cow Girls at Sunflower Branch" I made piece a few years ago. A phrase in my head that wanted to come out in a bit of ...

So, here I am post-op now I am recovered/recovering... wearing sewing glasses with one glass removed! for sewing it isn't so great, bu...

Design dilemma... Now that the sea section is cut out, the dilemma is the fabric underneath that shows through the openings. Basically, I h...

Now for the sea or water section The chalk drawing one of the capsized boats.

So, we are getting there! The forest section ready for fusing. some of the different houses Normal houses, refugee housing, angry (mil...

week 42 - 2018 bead on fabric

cow 93 another doorstop, but for the kitchen door. Not so much use. Just needed when all the windows and doors are open so it doesn't ...

2 parts of the forest section have been cut. parts will be tweaked before fusing. This is the destroyed village I showed the other day ...

On Monday, I had a cataract surgery on my right eye. 😵Depending the result, I will update this to let you know how I am! I need to give it ...

one of the villages cut out and the pieces put in place. The houses in the forest section are on stilts...like in some of the rain forest...

some of the trees which have been cut in the forest section.    wondering why I decided there needed to be so many!

So to the forest section...drawing the houses in chalk. The villages are surrounded by various trees. This part represents one of the v...

week 41 - 2018 bead on fabric

cow 92 We are nearing the end of the cows! I am trying to remember if there are some hidden ones. Maybe it will make it to 100? Apologi...

I have said before that Holly gets worried about the wind. This time she was in such a panic she got me up early (exhausted from being at Kn...

Apologies for missing Thankful Thursday this week. I am at the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace in London. Stewarding for th...

and the desert section pretty much there. The refugee tents in the desert near the top and the places they fled from in the bottom. The...

and so, some of the desert city houses and some of the damaged houses and villages and then fusing

Getting an idea of what the houses in the desert will look like. The desert background will be there, but I must cut the rest of the hous...

week 40 - 2018 bead on fabric

Cow 91 I forgot about this trivet until I went to look for something to hold a bundle of fabric down in water. I am trying an experimen...

So, the next step... The desert section. I decided to put a break between top and bottom...a place for the sort of refugee camps where pe...

I like measurable achievements... all the mountain houses, plus a few extra that it needed, are cut out. Now they also have been fused. (...