Author: Ruth Singer
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Summer holiday craft workshops for kids
Ruth Singer Studio is now running workshops and clubs for children aged 6+ including teenagers. Summer holiday activities start at the end of July on Wednesday afternoons. We’ve also got after school clubs starting in October. Summer holiday workshops on on Wednesday afternoons, details below. £10 per child per session. Children must be accompanied by an adult,…
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Travelling Tool Shed
Today would have been my Grandad’s 98th birthday. My work, Tool Shed, inspired by his collection of tools, is heading off for a new exhibition later this month. What’s in Your Shed opens at Snibston, Coalville, Leicestershire 26th July – 26th September 2014 curated and conceived by Transform, an arts project working to create artistic interventions…
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Maidens’ Garlands collaboration with Jan Garside
EDIT – In fact, this won’t be displayed. There was a miscommunication with the gallery & they didn’t install it properly. So I took it away again. I’ll put it up in the studio soon. My collaborative work with Jan Garside will be exhibited again this month.
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Petal Dye
Dyeing fabric with petals (and some leaves) has to be one of the easiest and most satisfying way of putting natural colour onto cloth. It is ridiculously simple & effective, particularly on silk. I first tried it last year, after reading about it online, seeing what Hannah Lamb was doing with plant bundle (and in India…
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Meet the tutors
I’d like to introduce the Ruth Singer Studio teaching team (and their cats) to you all. Heather French and Erica Pickles teach classes and 1:1 tuition at the studio alongside me and help me keep inspired and excited about what we offer to students. Dressmaking and pattern cutting tutor, Erica Pickles, is a professional costume…
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Pinpebbles
The first pieces from a new collection of Pinpebbles are now up for sale on madebyhandonline starting at £25 including postage. Pinpebbles are small, tactile, textile objects, perfect to hold and display and are inspired by historic pincushions, from an age when valuable handmade pins were essential for holding clothing together. This group of pin pebbles…
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Fabric Manipulation : Stitch & Slash
Would you believe that ripped jeans of the 1990s are simply harking back to the 16th century? For a brief period, it was the height of fashion to ‘pink’ or slash luxury fabrics to create pattern and to reveal yet another fancy fabric underneath. That’s where the term pinking shears comes from, although they appear somewhat later.…
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The Business of Embroidery ecourse
I’ve just started Mastered ecourse on the Business of Embroidery taught by the amazing Karen Nicol. I’ve been looking for a while for an ecourse to take as research towards developing my own ecourses and had been pondering one of the Mastered embroidery courses, though I knew they weren’t quite right for me. It has been…
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Sewing by Candlelight
My holidays tend to involve being outdoors a lot, either camping or on a canal boat. I love the quiet of an evening on the canal or in a rural campsite, watching the sun go down or (more likely) sitting inside listening to the rain hammer down. Neither location is good for evening sewing, so I…
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