Category: Ruth Singer

I have: taught a workshop in Birmingham had a rather pointless trip to West Bromwich driven to Wales & had dinner & wine & walked the dog (not all the same time) driven to Ormskirk to deliver work to the Chapel Gallery seen the Gormleys set up my stand for the Eco Design Show, Liverpool…

As I hoped, Scrapiana came up trumps with scissor-related question from the other day. I thought I would copy it here for all to enjoy! Thanks! “I don’t think there’s an official collective noun for scissors (a startling oversight) though “a snip of scissors” can’t really be bettered. Well done. I’d offer “an indecision of…

One of the reasons (among a list so long and frankly tedious, I won’t bore you with it (which is something coming from the woman who just a few days ago posted a long blog about putting up shelves)) I am so unbloggy and otherwise occupied is that I am preparing to exhibit at Liverpool…

Hmmm. I’m not sure what the collective noun is (or ought to be) for scissors. I throw this question open to you readers (and hope dearly for an answer from Scrapiana & her dictionary of everything). I went to the haberdashery wholesalers this afternoon, which I realised was a mere 15 minutes walk from the…

Firstly the list of things, most of which happened some time ago and I am majorly tardy in sharing them: 1. I was featured in the September issue of Get Creative magazine which is a very charming Australian magazine about, well, crafts. The feature is about my work and about Sew It Up. Despite having…

Three years. Three years I’ve been in this studio. [And the same house. That’s more than twice as long as I’ve lived anywhere in the last 16 years.]But the studio – really this is my second studio, but the first was only a 6-month sublet so I never really got to fill it to the…

Part of this weekend’s work to do list was to read some nice books. I like to do lists that involve nice things. I’m playing around with ideas for a new book which is supremely exciting and so much more fun than a lot of the other work I have to do. One aspect of…

Thanks for your postcard thoughts – I went for just one in the end, the green one in the middle. I decided to save money and only have the one. I have 2 others already but they are both grey, so a green was a good plan. On Monday I had a lovely day off…

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To spy interesting displays and vignettes, even if I don’t buy anything. Never thought I would see knitting being used to sell expensive clothes. Fabulous. Giant balls of wool is definitely the thing though. (oh and those balls of wool have had another life, but that’s another story). Displays and windows in Cloth House, London.…