Category: Ruth Singer

Sunday 1st July 10am-4pmStitch & Gather. This is an exciting experimental workshop where you can try out a wide range of decorative techniques suitable for fashion, embroidery or quilting projects. This workshop includes Suffolk puffs, stuffed shibori and American smocking and lots of the techniques Ruth uses in her exhibition work.  Don’t worry if you have tried some of…

I’ve been asked time and again to run a free-motion embroidery workshop at the studio. So I am doing! Well, not me personally, I have booked Jo Hill to run the session. The workshop takes place on Saturday 7th July 2012 at Ruth Singer Studio, Leicester. 10-4pm, £50 including materials (frames sold separately if required)Please…

It is only a couple of weeks until the fabulous, little known, local Leicester treasure. Art House is an artist-run event where homeowners fill their houses with work by other local artists and makers and let people wander around and buy lovely things. It is truly wonderful. Like the bigger artist open house festivals in…

One of the many activities I ran during the Ruth Singer Studio in residence at Haymarket Shopping Centre was creating this coat. Stitchers who came to workshops and free craft social events contributed some of masses of Suffolk puffs which coat is made from. I didn’t count them all but I suspect there are 300…

Coming up with workable activities for primary schools is an interesting challenge. I’ve done a few in the last year or two that I am really pleased with. Working with under 11s is exhausting and rewarding in equal measure. I’ve had the luck to work on some longer-term projects recently which have really allowed me…

This week, along with a new logo & brand design, 2 photoshoots and two massive pieces of work, I also took delivery of a FILM! (if you can take delivery of a virtual thing…) Steve Friendship (who lives up to his name) of Large Scale Film made this film of one of my workshops at…

I am trying to write about fabric manipulation. You know, the twiddly, fiddly stuff I do with fabric. There ought to be a better name for it. Not only am I pondering names for the technique as a whole, but also for the individual techniques. “twisty foldy pointy thing” “Blobbles” “Swirly circle folds” Part of…

Coming up with a short, snappy line or two about what Ruth Singer Studio does is harder than writing an whole book. Well nearly. Here’s the problem.  The company name is Ruth Singer Studio.  We run workshops, classes & tuition in sewing, textile and a range of crafts. We also offer mentoring, business training and…

Back in January, when April seemed like a million years away, I agreed to create a piece of collaborative work for the fashion show taking place at the Haymarket (my pop-up studio sponsors) this weekend. I also agreed to run a drop-in sewing activity at Makers Mart last weekend & figured that maybe I could…

As part of my ridiculously busy 12-hours-on-the-go Saturday, I had a stall at Makers Mart, our local selected contemporary craft fair. The fair has a way to go to make it truly fabulous along the lines of Lustre, but there were a few makers that really stood out for me. In my usual fashion, I…