Ruth O'Leary Textile Art

With the petals outlined with buttonhole stitch, they now need to be filled in.  I'm going to use split stitch for this, partly because ...

Firstly, sorry about the delay since my last post - my laptop developed a serious fault, and has just come back from the repair man for the ...

If you've seen the design  you'll know that I have an awful lot of flowers to embroider.  I intend to stitch all of them using the s...

Time to start the Banner's very first flowers! The flowers are to go on the wide border surrounding the front central cross, which wil...

It's probably worthwhile giving a quick overview of the design and work involved for St Cuthbert's banner, and how far I got during ...

I want to get started on St Cuthbert's Banner as soon as possible, but I hate having unfinished jobs hanging about, not to mention the s...

I'm thrilled to be able to tell you that after a long delay, I will very soon be resuming work on St Cuthbert's Banner. Anyone who...