Ruth O'Leary Textile Art

Having covered transferring a design so recently with 'Earth mini' I won't go over it again, as I did exactly the same: made a t...

I've been commissioned to make a small piece; the client didn't have any pre-conceived ideas about what form this should take, but d...

The front was completed, but I wanted to put a small Awen design on the back, just to finish it off: This was worked in gold chain sti...

With the outline done, I now need to fill in the knot design with colour.  I'm making this very simple, but hopefully effective: just o...

I'm being very bad at posting but a bit better at stitching, so time for an update on the 'Earth' mini roundel. With the desi...

I get a mention in the July/August 2012 edition of Embroidery  magazine! OK, so it's about two inches at the bottom of a column in ...

Once I’d drawn up the design I wanted, I scanned it, added a circle round the outside (so when I come to mount it, it should be easy to cen...