Sandy Snowden

Judges Highly Commended!!! For Ramshackle Suburb s As well as the rosette, there were goodies. Somehow they had 2 goody bags left for...

Sister Artists And the front! Today I have been stitching the backing on...(while I sat for nearly 2 hours waiting at the hospital eye ...

So, teasing a bit, I have finished the embroidery. All that is left is backing and binding. I hadn’t planned to put a backing and I really...

close up of greenery in the foreground. The fringe of the precious fabric (which didn’t work for this project). I turned the fringe upsi...

I am nearing the last of the stitching now. This is a closeup of the stitching on the tree leaves. The fabric I used was actually shrubb...

Day 236- 18,880 people noted. This work acknowledges 24,000 individuals - Indian Christians who were physically attacked in one year bec...

Treasure 26 I showed some bells near the beginning of the treasure collection, but today I had my phone upstairs, and saw this little be...

so to the leaves for the trees. I had a precious piece of fabric I knew was the right colour for the leaves. I cut it into sections that ...

Next step: I wanted to make trees on either side of the scene. I liked the idea of something like bark cloth. But rather than the brick col...

Sister Artists- next step has been the side borders. I had this South African shwe shwe print that picked up more colour from the embroidery...

Day 229- 18,320 people noted. This work acknowledges 24,000 individuals - Indian Christians who were physically attacked in one year bec...

Now I have added the bottom border. I chose this African print from Tanzania. It brings it some of the colours of the embroidery.  Runnin...

just a few dragons I saw at the Festival of Quilts. The Kiss of Gaudi by Isabel Munoz Fabric I didn’t quite have the money for. Whit...

I have still been working on the embroidery from Mali.  The kantha stitching with white sewing cotton is finished. I have placed a bati...

Day 222- 17,760 people noted. This work acknowledges 24,000 individuals - Indian Christians who were physically attacked in one year bec...

Treasure 25 This is a new treasure. A Certain Young Man picked this lovely mug when he had a layover in Dublin.

one of the things occupying my time while at Festival of Quilts was to help at the Sew Powerful stand. This company has been involved in sup...

I was excited to see that my work in the Art category had been hung on one of the white walls, rather than the black drapes. And even mo...

I am back. I meant to post from Birmingham, but the days were very busy and I didn’t have a very good connection to the internet in my hotel...

headed to Festival of Quilts Thursday. These shoes are comfortable, but the Velcro was never long enough on the strap to connect to the othe...

Day 208- 16,640 people noted. I am doing something different on the corners. The first one wasn’t as I wished, but not a problem as I do t...

Treasure 24 Another watering can. From my Mom because I like cherries 🍒. Even though cherries have pits or whatever.

Though it was extremely hot 🥵 yesterday, it was a lovely day for a birthday because I didn’t have to go out, and I didn’t have to cook! Bu...

The last few weeks I have been making progress with the Sister Artists embroidery from Mali .  I wanted to give some texture, so I deci...

Pekinese Stitch or Chinese Stitch When I got around to doing this, I forgot that the base stitch was back stitch. So I started doing run...