Category: Ruth Singer

This isn’t the £5 Regency number, but is the c1900 upholstered chair for display, also from the depths of Dust World. Clearly it needs a little work before it comes to hang out with Maud and my finery at Origin. The plan is that it will be a joint effort of will, skill and frustration…

I have spent the best part of two days in a kind of Dust World, selecting and purchasing the finest, and dustiest of tatty antiques. I’ve been looking for a nice, old upholstered chair for weeks. I’ve been looking for old picture frames for months. I’ve been wanting an antique mannequin for years. In one…

Eveything I am making at the moment seems to involve lots of small bits. This box contains 132 folded and pinned two-inch squares of silk. The piece below involves about 50 circles, cut and folded and stitched individually onto the vintage shot-rayon fabric. I was making this listening to a radio programme about Neil Diamond…

That’s what I said to myself when arriving at the Festival of Quilts last week. I was going to see my ex-work-experience student Siobhan Lawson who recently graduated First Class – well done! I love her aprons, particularly. Tea towel and collar details Sauce ApronCollars I loved the exhibition of African American quilts. I messed…

Back from my two jaunts – one wedding in Scotland which was great and one week on a narrowboat which was also great in a totally different way. I didn’t take my camera on either trip but there is someone else’s photo of the beach by the wedding here, and someone else’s bit of canal…

I finally managed to co-ordinate myself and my camera in the studio, so here are some shots of what’s going on there. I’m off to Scotland for a few days for a wedding. Looking forward to seeing the sea and having a break. We love fabric manipulation! New Pinkerton boas shelves. lovely tidy shelves. I…

Well, actually I’ve had postcard block for ages. I need to send of the image for a new postcard for Origin NOW. I’ve had several weeks to work this out and have been going round and round in circles with it. What I really needed was a session with a professional photographer and some lovely…

I’ve been struggling with a lack of things to say recently – mainly because I’ve been doing unphotogenic and un-newsworthy things like my accounts. Having said that I had a couple of days re-living my old life in London last week, staying with my old flatmate in my old bedroom and visiting my old place…

I paused this afternoon to consider my bookcase. One of several bookcases actually. The one at home with novels, history books and stuff other than textiles books. I have three groaning shelves in the studio with my fashion / textiles books and another at home with textile history and other art history books. And behind…

There’s loads going on over here. I’m not quite keeping up with myself, as you will have noticed from the sporadic posting. I’ve mostly been in the studio in the last few weeks, slaving away at some new and exciting work, with lots of cutting out and sewing assistance from student Lucy. She’s now stuck…