Author: Ruth Singer

When life is lacking in sewing time, I rejoice that I learned to knit a few years ago. It gives me just enough of a creative kick without needing all that set-up, tidy-away, table, good light business that dressmaking requires. In the last couple of years I have mostly knit to patterns, lacking the skill…

Don’t faint with shock. I am still alive. December has been almost as strange as November, but Christmas is over and I am back in the studio and there is stuff happening! Although admittedly, these here happened before Christmas. Neither photo was taken with the aim of showing off the dresses at their best advantage,…

Despite the fact that I’ve written two sewing books in the last two years, in years gone by I always imagined myself writing a cookery book. Instead I cook myself interesting, mostly invented meals, read cookery books & food writing (although not as much as I would like to) and write a very occasional food…

My book came out in the US & Canada last month! Sew It Up has been retitled The Sewing Bible and has a lovely new red cover, which I absolutely love! It’s exactly the same book just with American terms and imperial measurements. I’m delighted to say that it’s going down really well and has…

November is hardly my favourite month of the year and this November has been a funny one indeed, resulting in a creative black (or blue) hole while I work out what to do next. I don’t usually do blues, literal or metaphorical, so I’ve been surprised by the way I’ve been drawn into blue the…

Just a quick note to say – Londoners should go and see this, it looks great!I used to occasionally work with Japanese traditional craftspeople and British makers inspired by Japanese techniques. *Passing moment of wistfulness for my old job* Basketry by Joanna Gilmour. Via @Rosiejam

Or at least the chair has a new cover, let us not get too surreal. And I made a new set of pictures on Flickr of the felt pebble fixation which has lead to this chair being decorated thus. It got loads of compliments at the Eco Design Show in Liverpool over the weekend. A…

I have: taught a workshop in Birmingham had a rather pointless trip to West Bromwich driven to Wales & had dinner & wine & walked the dog (not all the same time) driven to Ormskirk to deliver work to the Chapel Gallery seen the Gormleys set up my stand for the Eco Design Show, Liverpool…

As I hoped, Scrapiana came up trumps with scissor-related question from the other day. I thought I would copy it here for all to enjoy! Thanks! “I don’t think there’s an official collective noun for scissors (a startling oversight) though “a snip of scissors” can’t really be bettered. Well done. I’d offer “an indecision of…

One of the reasons (among a list so long and frankly tedious, I won’t bore you with it (which is something coming from the woman who just a few days ago posted a long blog about putting up shelves)) I am so unbloggy and otherwise occupied is that I am preparing to exhibit at Liverpool…