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Hello. My name's Liz Plummer and I'm a Textile Artist. I love the texture of fabric. I love dyeing it and painting it and stitching into it. This blog is about the influences on my work, inspiration, my daily life, and the processes of creating. Enjoy!

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Notable Pages in my blog

How to Make a Concertina Book

Landscape Postcards from Inspiration to Execution

How to Mount a Small Quilt on to Foamcore

Altering Photos to make Gocco Screens

Print Gocco Web Links

Print Gocco Machines for sale

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Some new gocco printed Moleskine journals

It occurred to me that I haven’t put any pictures of my Etsy shop listings on the blog for ages, so here we go!

gocco printed Moleskine journals 

This medieval city journal has been selling well recently.  It is based on a Dover publication of some medieval woodcuts.  I printed it, embossed it with gold embossing powder and then painted it with watercolour paints to bring it to life.  They are all different.

medieval city journal

Here is another variation:

medieval city journal

Here is one that has just been printed with brown ink.  I have them in unlined or lined notebooks.

medieval city journal

This is a new one too.  It has been printed twice.  First with the yellow spiral design, then with a new design of a street in France.

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Here is another variation on the French street, again embossed and painted with watercolours.  It is a lot more abstract than the medieval city.  I do like the way that printing with the Gocco is so adaptable!

French street

Here is another new design.  It shows a boat in the harbour in Bristol with houses behind.  It has been printed on a beige moleskine cahier and then I’ve added a blue watercolour wash over the top.

Bristol boat

And lastly here is Honfleur Harbour in Normandy this time with a blue watercolour wash over it.

Honfleur harbour

Altering Moleskine journals

Last year I traced part of a medieval woodcut print of a cityscape using one of the Dover books, and made it into a Gocco screen.  I’m not sure that the screen I made was very successful because I didn’t shade it enough to give it dimension and the resultant prints just weren’t very clear.   I printed several Moleskine journals with it and put them in my Etsy shop.  Here is one so you can see what I mean:

medieval city moleskine

Actually this one is even more unclear because I used white ink and gold embossing powder!   But I did do some with white ink on black which wasn’t much better.

Anyway, they’re not like that anymore!  This afternoon I got the watercolour paints out and highlighted a few of the features, I hope more successfully:

medieval city

Here’s a close up of that last picture:

medieval city painted 

I also tried a different sort of highlighting on the black one:

black and white medieval city

I did this one with a silver pen.

medieval city moleskine journal with angel stamp 

I stamped this one with my angel stamp as I think she looks pretty medieval too!   

These are all for sale in my shop on Etsy, by the way.  What do you think? Does my colouring improve them or spoil them?

Fabric Bundles and Print Gocco machines still for sale!

This is just a quick reminder that I still have about 8 fabric bundles for sale… and as a way of clearing some space in my studio the next person in the UK to buy some can have 3 bundles for the price of 2! Just pay with the Paypal buttons for two and email me to let me know which other one you want and I’ll mark them as sold. I’ll post on here when they’ve gone. You can find them here. This offer will expire at midnight on Wednesday 3rd June.

Red fabric bundle

And I also have a number of Print Gocco machines for sale – I haven’t got any B6 machines but I have several PG10s and PG10 Supers. They are on my Print Gocco machines page.

If you haven’t the foggiest what I’m talking about, there’s a page of links about the Print Gocco here.

Print Gocco PG10 Super for sale

This is a card I printed with it. I really must get it out and print some more… they really are addictive once you get going!

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African fabric and nappy liners!

There are still more fabric bundles waiting to be snapped up! And here are a few extras for the next 2 or 3 people to buy them…

I found a load of nappy liners which I bought to do cool melting and burning stuff… you can stitch into them and colour them and heat them and they distress nicely.

I’ve also got lots of African dutch wax prints fabrics – if you buy a fabric bundle I’ll put some of them in – they are good size pieces (half a yard, a yard etc…).

My studio is looking very different now – I’ve moved the tables round and my design wall and I can get around a lot more in there! I don’t feel quite so hemmed in. I was hoping that it might be possible to put a kitchen type sink in there but it looks like that is impractical so I’ll just have to keep running to the bathroom if I want to rinse things out:(

Pics soon… and I haven’t forgotten the report on my week at C2C!

Red and yellow fabric bundles

Here’s a pic of the yellow/orange fabric bundle:

orange/yellow fabric bundle

And in its bag:

yellow/orange fabric bundle

SOLD

And one of the red ones (the other is in the post before I went away).

red fabric bundle

And in its bag:

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And this one has reds and purples:

reds and purples fabric bundle


More piccies of Fabric Bundles

I’ve had a request for photos of the blue/purple and blue/brown bundles, so here they are!

The blue/purple one:

blue/purple fabric bundle

And here it is in its bag:

blue/purple fabric bundle in bag

SOLD

And here is the blue/brown one:

blue/brown fabric bundle

And in its bag:

blue/brown bundle in bag

SOLD