Ruth O'Leary Textile Art

Another ghastly photo, but hopefully you can more or less tell that I've finished the satin stitch for the upper leaves and  around the ...

To hold the silver mesh in place, I'm stitching over it in sating stitch around the edge; the double row of split stitch forms the exten...

A short post for a fair amount of sewing: using split stitch, I've worked a double row of stitches around the outline of the design, and...

As I mentioned before, the point of this sample is to try something using the Italian tubular mesh wire ribbon (henceforth referred to as ...

Another sample piece.  You may remember that earlier this year when working on the Apple Tree fire screen I had a go at using Italian tubul...

If you're new to this blog and have followed a link here from Mary Corbet's site , then a big hello, and I hope you'll keep on r...

As this is just a sample piece I'm not making it up into anything, but I still want to finish it off nicely and put it on a background. ...