Category: Hand & Heart
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Hand & Heart textile days
A new series of events for textile folk in and around Loughborough Hand & Heart is my new project exploring sense of touch, textiles and sewing and I would like to invite you to join me for the first events in September and October. Do you love textiles & sewing? We invite you to join…
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Material Histories, Showing and Sharing Textiles: Making Meaning Episode 66
This episode is the second of the occasional mini series Material Histories with Deb McGuire. In this one we have a wonderful wide-ranging conversation starting with what we look for in quilt shows but covers far more than that. We talk about the power of connecting through making, about showing and sharing textile works and…
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21 Years of Ruth Singer, artist and writer. Making Meaning Episode 65
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This month, July 2026 marks 21 years since I left a very nice, well-paid job in the museum sector (at the V&A no less) and set off on this journey of second-career self-employment. It’s been varied to say the least and full of successes and failures, risks and rewards. In this new podcast episode I…
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Where Do I Get My Ideas From? Making Meaning Episode 64
I have been asked about my ideas and where they come from more than anything else in my 21 year career (although “How long did it take to make?” must be a close second). It’s really hard for me to define where each idea came from but I’ve given it a go in this podcast.…
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Introducing Material Histories with Deb McGuire. Making Meaning Episode 63
Material Histories is a new mini-series of Making Meaning Podcast with special guest co-host Deb McGuire. Deb is a brilliant historian, specialising in emotional histories of quilting, but she’s incredibly knowledgable about all kinds of things. We have so many overlapping interests and things we really want to talk about in the world of textile…
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Hand & Heart – announcing my new project
In the darkest days of November, I worked really hard on a funding application to Arts Council England to expand The Victorian Hand project and enable me to work with more people. It was a long wait over the winter until I finally heard back in mid-March and now the project is getting started. Over…