Author: Ruth Singer

I’m running a workshop here in Leicester in a few weeks time. Fabric Flowers workshop Saturday 17th April, 2010Leicester10.00-4.00£30 & £15 concessionsSuitable for 12 and over with basic sewing skills.All materials will be provided. Learn how to make fabric flowers of all shapes and sizes, using traditional and contemporary techniques. Try out felt and recycled…

***On Monday 8th March I am running a workshop at Birmingham Town Hall 2-6pm making Suffolk Puff brooches, as part of this project. *** Late last year I ran a series of workshops for newly arrived and refugee women in Birmingham for Craftspace & CIP (Community Integration Partnerships) on a project aimed at starting up…

Making things for a living is hard work. Designing new things is particularly hard work. Ideas come all too often, turning them into reality is much harder. But sometimes it clicks and the vision in your head turns out just so on the fabric. You love what you have made. You show it to other…

You know how I mentioned the other that that I was trying to buy a house? Just sort of casually dropped it into conversation without making a big deal about it? Well, I *am* buying a house. Really, truly, a whole house with upstairs and downstairs and an outside too. I have wanted a home…

Still ill. But found enough concentration and co-ordination to finish off comfort bedsocks. Playing with colour and spirals. Yes, I know this would have been easier with crochet. But I like to make challenges for myself. I also darned my Noro socks. That’s about it for today. Not the most productive day.

Things are a little quiet on the blog front. I have been entirely taken over by being ill, having my birthday, trying to buy a house and rushing around the country. No news yet on the house but I’m hoping for a yes or no by the end of the week. Clearly I am hoping…

I’ve just finished a brilliant book – Jacobson’s Organ and the remarkable nature of smell by Lyall Watson. This has precisely nothing to do with sewing, fabric, craft, fashion, knitting or even cooking, all the usual subject matter of this blog. But I hope you will forgive me rambling about it, just because it is…

Friday night there was a huge full moon. I had to drive about 15 miles to deliver something and took the scenic route back, enjoying the last of the sunset then the rise of the moon.I stopped at Thornton Reservoir on the way back to photograph the moon over the water.I slept with the blinds…

My one, now resting at home. It seems I am almost powerless to resist the urge to sew dragon scales into everything. Or to sew Suffolk Puffs onto everything. Last weekend I ran a workshop making draught excluders so had to come up with some samples. Inevitably, both of those two favourite techniques came into…

One of the strangest bits of work I’ve done in the last year or two was teaching Mark Watson to sew, for the Guardian / Observer DIY and Save guide I mentioned the other week. Mark in fear of the bobbins. Way back before Christmas, I trotted down to London with needles, thread and some…