Author: Ruth Singer

Alas the on-beach knitting was done a few weeks ago and today’s knitting has been pretty sea-free on the sofa, but I have completed a very-delayed birthday present of these fingerless mittens. Now I’ve just got one last-year Christmas present to complete and things will be looking good! Another good haul at the car boot…

I’ve got a bit obsessed with the local car boot sale this summer, particularly the last 3 or 4 weeks since I’ve had a bit of time to go. Stuff is coming home with me every week and yet I have the urge to go again, get more stuff. My friend Sarah asked me today…

I am (occasionally) true to my word, and I have gone straight off to research knitted jewellery. What I’m interested in is stuff knitted with fine embroidery thread not knitting yarn or wire. I found a lot of stuff which I don’t personally like, lets say. Most knitted jewellery is of course wire and as…

Thanks for your lovely comments about my jacket yesterday! I feel thoroughly inspired to start sewing something else right now! I don’t even have a plan for the next project. The sewing thoughts may also have something to do with the fact that my job is starting to wind down at last and I can…

When I finished work at 9pm this evening, I intended to go swimming. Maybe I pretended to myself I would go swimming. But instead I decided to FINALLY do this blog post. It’s only taken about 4 months. I finished this jacket at the end of April. And finally photographed it at the weekend. So,…

I can’t quite understand how a year can have gone by since the last Festival of Quilts, yet somehow it has. Of all the things to come round sooner than expected, a chance to see fabulous quilts (and buy fabrics and tools and catch up with a good friend who lives too far away) isn’t…

On my way to Dorset on holiday a few weeks ago, my friend Sarah and I stopped in at Whitchurch Silk Mill. I’ve been wanting to go there for years, but Hampshire’s an awfully long way to go just to see a museum. I’m so glad we did, this little place is a real gem.…

Exciting publishing stuff this month! Two new editions of my book, Sew it Up. It has been retitled The Sewing Bible for the US market and has a lovely new cover. It’s published by Potter Craft and due out in November. It’s SO exciting to have the book coming out in the US at last.…

I had a little holiday. The sun didn’t come out but the company was excellent, the B&B gorgeous and the food divine. And no traffic jams. Happy! More holidays soon.

Amazing old book jacket I’m about to have a well-earned holiday! Which seems to mean working like mad to get all the stuff done that needs doing before the holiday and making endless lists of stuff to handover to other people. Will it survive without me? Who knows.  Railings and columns of the old cattle market…