Sandy Snowden

And this is the latest embroidery on paper. Buttonhole Wheel Stitch - 25 Stitch on Paper variations and exploring some ideas for desig...

I just realised I never posted the last Stitch on Paper sample. no. 24 Knotted Cretan stitch variations-embroidery stitch samples on paper...

Week 44 - 2018 Bead on fabric This week involved an end of month and a turning to the next line. zoom out a bit to see that area and...

cow 95 Another whimsical piece I made. "Cows in my Field"

Desert house. The look changes with the stitching. Somehow enhances the character. Now to deal with the threads. I have started stitchi...

I like the colours of fruit and veg in the autumn. Every year for quite sometime now I have decorated the tables at the front of the chur...

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