Ruth O'Leary Textile Art

Winter's arrived a month early this year - everything's under a thick blanket of snow, and I'm currently looking at a blizzard. ...

It's now time to start applying the flowers to the velvet panel fabric.  This is a big moment, and rather a nerve-wracking one, though I...

Now all the flowers are done, they need to be applied to the background fabric, but before I can do that, I need to get this ready.  I also ...

I promised last time that I'll be starting on putting the bottom panel together next, and I am, but I'm afraid there's quite a b...

The last lap!  The very last bit of embroidery to do for the bottom panel is the leaves for the cowslips. These are all together in a bunch ...

Or cheating, if you prefer. I said last time that something was worrying me about the cowslip flowers; the problem wasn't with the flowe...

The cowslip flower heads each consist of seven individual flowers; some of these are shown from the back, but the rest are seen from the fro...