Author: Ruth Singer

Pinstripe Pincushion kit £8 / $11. Wool and vintage ribbon As promised, I’m delighted to be able to offer kits for making several of the projects in Sew It Up. The kits are now available online here. Organic hemp-silk trapunto cushion. Kit £15 / $24 Please drop me a line if you have any queries.…

Pinstripe Pincushion kit £8 / $11. Wool and vintage ribbon As promised, I’m delighted to be able to offer kits for making several of the projects in my book Sew It Up. The kits are now available online here. Organic hemp-silk trapunto cushion. Kit £15 / $24 Please drop me a line if you have…

There’s a job on my To Do list I’ve been putting off for a long time. One I hate, loathe and detest. One that no woman should ever have to deal with alone. One that goes far beyond the call of duty for a designer. Getting rid of magazines. There comes a time when they…

I often worry about showing half-finished projects on the blog, as though it will somehow jinx them, or you will be disappointed if I don’t have the whole process in one post. But I’m excited about this one, so I’m showing it in stages. It started with a tatty old, green-painted dining chair, given to…

I’ve been feeling a bit below-par this weekend so 12 hours of duvet-based inaction was called for. I think actually I managed 13 hours, although only about 8 of them were actually asleep. New bedsocks were essential. And a little ongoing knitting activity. Add in hot water bottle and Radio 4. Perfect while the rain…

I spent a very pleasant Friday evening at the Banks’ Mill open studios private view. As usual, I forgot to take any pictures. I also forgot to take any pictures at the opening of the Midlands Textile Forum exhibition on Thursday. This is not the way to make for a visual blog. I do apologise!…

Its taken many months, but I have finally set up my own little photo studio in my workshop.I was given a bit of photographic backdrop paper when we finished a day’s book photography at my house, back in February. Working with a professional photographer (Dominic Harris) on Sew it Up was a real eye-opener. I…

Nice reviews are appearing on Amazon! Please add one if you already have the book. It all helps! If you click through on this image and buy this book (and anything else at the same time) from Amazon, I get a smidgen of Amazon’s mighty profits! So go ahead – click and buy – even…

I’m working on kits for a number of the projects in the book. What I’m doing is preparing packages of the same (or very similar) fabrics to those which I used, along with any other bits and pieces you need to make the item. Some of these are vintage or recycled fabrics, so rather hard…

I’ve posted over here today. About time I did, poor neglected Grublog. Updated…. and over here, about kits I’m making up for book projects. Like this: