Category: Ruth Singer

My advance copy has arrived. If you click on the images you can have a closer look.The book is due out in just 9 weeks, so I’ll be showing a project a week from the book and sharing news and information as soon as it comes through.

Time for an extended show-and-tell of some of the stuff I’ve acquired recently…. Boxes full of second-hand cotton perle. I don’t tend to use this sort of thread much, but I have been recently, so I thought it was sensible to buy the 15 or so balls for £2 when I saw them. Since then…

I came back early from my weekend away, and thought I would spend a nice bank holiday today doing lots of things I haven’t had time for recently, like: finishing the endless cardigan (nearly there, just the button band and collar!) making the dress to wear to my friends’ wedding (cut out, except the bodice,…

I do try not to buy fabric which isn’t organic or recycled. Sometimes I lapse because I love prints SO much. Especially Japanese ones. And Liberty.95% of the fabric I buy is for work. This is for me. Although the orange penguins are for a shirt for my godson, when I can find a suitable…

Its genetic. I can’t help it. I didn’t buy all of these. More pics over here and more to come.

I’ve had some pattern-buying success recently. This one is stunning, but the envelope was thin, so I knew it would be missing bits. It was so cheap that I thought I would risk it, rather than trying to unfold in the charity shop. What I really wanted was the pattern for the funny little overshirt…

When I’m teaching, or working with students, I often get asked about my design process. People often assume that as a designer, I work in the way designers are normally taught. Start with a brief, do research, prepare a sketchbook, make samples or prototypes, refine the design and then make it or – in many…

Lark Books are holding an apron competition. There’s not much time left to enter (closes Friday!) and win A is for Apron which contains lots of fab apron designs, including one of mine. I’ll be back soon with a rather special antique apron along with various other things.

I’m off for a few days rest. More photos of work in progress and other random things here – and more when I’m back next week. have a good weekend.

I seem to be a bit too busy having a social life. I’m enjoying August and taking it easy, having weekends off, evenings with friends and loooooong weekends away. Several of them. Its GOOD.I spent the past weekend in Cambridge which is always lovely and is even better now my good friend Rachael lives there.…