Ruth O'Leary Textile Art

The shell sections are actually quite stiff, as they're two layers of fabric, a layer of felt, heavy machine stitching and a lot of bead...

In between scrubbing the kitchen after the builders, I've been stitching a few beads on here and there, and have now added the beads to ...

Bringing you up to date on a few odds and ends: The local paper, the Sunderland Echo, ran a feature on me, published last Friday, which wa...

Mum and I like going to antique fairs, on the lookout for bargains!  There don't seem to be as much in the way of textiles as there used...

I'm making rather slow progress on my new project, mostly because I'm not putting anything like as much work into it as I did the Ba...

The biggest day of all will be its dedication at Durham Cathedral on 20 March, but yesterday was the biggest so far.  For the first time, al...

...going to be announced in a moment.  Before then, I'd just like to thank everyone who took the trouble to comment or email me with an ...