Sandy Snowden

India- Day 271- 21,680 people noted. Each bead stands for 1 person. Working on the next point of the star shape. This work acknowled...

Treasure 30 This is a Pewter thimble sent to me by my sister who lives in Alaska.

Day 264- 21,120 people noted. Each bead stands for 1 person. Working on the next point of the star shape. I wanted the same shape for e...

a bit late Treasure 29 I love this little silver pin cushion given to me by a friend sometime ago. I don’t really use it, but I th...

India- Day 257- 20,560 people noted. Just imagine! Do you see each bead here? Each one stands for 1 person. This work acknowledges 24,...

Treasure 28 Another set of dogs from my brother. Very small, as you can tell from the bottoms of the Encyclopaedia set behind.

Perhaps you know the  letters UFO or WIP and what they mean. Un-Finished Object and Work in Progress. This is my latest. I have had the eye...

Pistil stitch A French knot with a tail I have done this stitch before, so on the paper, I did a free form motif.

Starting a new stitching. This one for ‘On the Road’ Contemporary Quilt’s new suitcase collection. I was going to do some sewing for me, bu...

Sheaf Stitch I have done this stitch previously, but it was good to refresh my memory. I tried one or two variations.

India- Day 250- 20,000 people noted. A milestone. Just imagine! Do you see each bead here? Each one stands for 1 person. The first poi...

Treasure 27 A little family of dogs my brother Tom gave me a long time ago. I remember him when I see them.

Linked Double Chain Stitch It has been a long time since I have stitched on my paper project. Now the Sister Artist project is done and se...

The binding is on. The label and the sleeve on the back. And the parcelling up has been done. And the parcel started its journey to Was...

India- Day 246- 19,680 people noted. (Last week Kathy said,  I like the triangles -- are you going to square it off now? I hope they d...

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...