Category: Ruth Singer

Pattern, colour, texture in stone

While I was on holiday in Dorset I went hunting for a replacement for my missing (to be re-found at the back of some shelf, no doubt) wildflower identification book.Instead I found a real gem. I’m off on holiday again! So I will leave you with a random selection of pictures from the last few…

Just a quick note from me – buried as I am under a mountain of work, and about to go on holiday. Purely by chance I have just found and watched a great BBC4 programme on iplayer all about Harris tweed. Yes, not just an hour-long programme about it, but a whole series!I’m not sure…

Alas the on-beach knitting was done a few weeks ago and today’s knitting has been pretty sea-free on the sofa, but I have completed a very-delayed birthday present of these fingerless mittens. Now I’ve just got one last-year Christmas present to complete and things will be looking good! Another good haul at the car boot…

I’ve got a bit obsessed with the local car boot sale this summer, particularly the last 3 or 4 weeks since I’ve had a bit of time to go. Stuff is coming home with me every week and yet I have the urge to go again, get more stuff. My friend Sarah asked me today…

I am (occasionally) true to my word, and I have gone straight off to research knitted jewellery. What I’m interested in is stuff knitted with fine embroidery thread not knitting yarn or wire. I found a lot of stuff which I don’t personally like, lets say. Most knitted jewellery is of course wire and as…

Thanks for your lovely comments about my jacket yesterday! I feel thoroughly inspired to start sewing something else right now! I don’t even have a plan for the next project. The sewing thoughts may also have something to do with the fact that my job is starting to wind down at last and I can…

When I finished work at 9pm this evening, I intended to go swimming. Maybe I pretended to myself I would go swimming. But instead I decided to FINALLY do this blog post. It’s only taken about 4 months. I finished this jacket at the end of April. And finally photographed it at the weekend. So,…

I can’t quite understand how a year can have gone by since the last Festival of Quilts, yet somehow it has. Of all the things to come round sooner than expected, a chance to see fabulous quilts (and buy fabrics and tools and catch up with a good friend who lives too far away) isn’t…

On my way to Dorset on holiday a few weeks ago, my friend Sarah and I stopped in at Whitchurch Silk Mill. I’ve been wanting to go there for years, but Hampshire’s an awfully long way to go just to see a museum. I’m so glad we did, this little place is a real gem.…