Category: Ruth Singer

Yes, two posts in one day… it is some kind of miracle. I just wanted to pop in and say CHEERS while I am slowly working my way through a nice bottle of Blanquette de Limoux in celebration of home ownership. So here is my little house. Old, narrow and somewhat unloved in recent years,…

Last week I ran one of my new workshop options at the Catmose Gallery in nearby Oakham.Alongside the launch later this year of Sew Eco, I am running a number of recycling / refashioning workshops where you can learn how to revamp and restyle things for your home. The first was Lampshade Refurb last week…

2010 is without a doubt the year of the quilt. The V&A has just opened it’s hotly anticipated quilt exhibition – and curses I am not there to see it yet… Maybe next week. Quilts and related things are chugging through my creative brain pretty constantly at the moment and I have a quilt in…

I’m running a workshop here in Leicester in a few weeks time. Fabric Flowers workshop Saturday 17th April, 2010Leicester10.00-4.00£30 & £15 concessionsSuitable for 12 and over with basic sewing skills.All materials will be provided. Learn how to make fabric flowers of all shapes and sizes, using traditional and contemporary techniques. Try out felt and recycled…

***On Monday 8th March I am running a workshop at Birmingham Town Hall 2-6pm making Suffolk Puff brooches, as part of this project. *** Late last year I ran a series of workshops for newly arrived and refugee women in Birmingham for Craftspace & CIP (Community Integration Partnerships) on a project aimed at starting up…

Making things for a living is hard work. Designing new things is particularly hard work. Ideas come all too often, turning them into reality is much harder. But sometimes it clicks and the vision in your head turns out just so on the fabric. You love what you have made. You show it to other…

You know how I mentioned the other that that I was trying to buy a house? Just sort of casually dropped it into conversation without making a big deal about it? Well, I *am* buying a house. Really, truly, a whole house with upstairs and downstairs and an outside too. I have wanted a home…

Still ill. But found enough concentration and co-ordination to finish off comfort bedsocks. Playing with colour and spirals. Yes, I know this would have been easier with crochet. But I like to make challenges for myself. I also darned my Noro socks. That’s about it for today. Not the most productive day.

Things are a little quiet on the blog front. I have been entirely taken over by being ill, having my birthday, trying to buy a house and rushing around the country. No news yet on the house but I’m hoping for a yes or no by the end of the week. Clearly I am hoping…

I’ve just finished a brilliant book – Jacobson’s Organ and the remarkable nature of smell by Lyall Watson. This has precisely nothing to do with sewing, fabric, craft, fashion, knitting or even cooking, all the usual subject matter of this blog. But I hope you will forgive me rambling about it, just because it is…