Ruth O'Leary Textile Art

Just the roses left to embroider. You may remember that when we looked at the colours to be used for the roses , it included a shade of pi...

The broom flower blossoms next.  No shading, just yellow. The first fifty: And the second: Although the layout is quite form...

The broom flowers are to be filled in next, all one hundred of them, and I'm starting with the little green caps at their bases (I'm...

All the outlining's done, so onto the filling in. I'm starting with the stems, in the same shade of green, Madeira stranded cotton...

The last bit of outlining, this time for the roses. These are quite fiddly, involving three stages and colours: That pink shade will...

The stems are outlined, and next it's the broom flowers.  These have a small pale green cap at the base, which are going to be worked in...

Annoyingly, I forgot to take a photo of the fabric off the paper it had been on when it was painted and put onto a frame ready to start, so ...