Learn eco sewing with Ruth Singer

I run a range of sewing workshops for beginners & more experienced stitchers. Find out more on my website and sign up for my newsletter.

Introduction to Eco Sewing on Whip Up

If you want a general intro to eco sewing, have a look at this article I've written on Whip Up.

Lace lampshade restyle project from Sew Eco.

Greener print

I'm a big fan of Ecouterre which is full of brilliant, quirky green fashion stuff.
This article is about a greener way of t-shirt printing using seaweed rather than PVC. I hope one day soon that it will be possible to buy vegetable-based inks like this for home textile printing.

Free project!

The Guardian website have featured my Sew Eco tablelinen embellishment project!

Project preview

Apron project preview

I'm running a workshop making aprons based on the skirt-transformed-to-apron project in Sew Eco, in a couple of weeks.  This apron is made from a skirt, re-cut and sewn to create an apron. I developed this idea as a way of making something new out of a skirt that is either too big or too small.
This was the original skirt:

sew eco out now!

My new book SEW ECO is out now. It is available from all good bookshops and online, or directly from me for signed copies.