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Art Quilts - Homepage of Liz Plummer, Quilt Artist

I am an art quilter and love to work with layers of fabric and surface design.

I am based in Wales, in the UK and have been making quilts since the year 2000, although I have done extensive sewing and craftwork all my life.

Read about my inspiration, new works and daily life.

Postcards and small quilts for sale - You can buy some of my work here using Paypal.
How to make a concertina book - Useful and easy-to-follow photo tutorial showing how to make an unusual little square handmade book.
Online textile and design courses - Series of entries reviewing various online courses in patchwork, quilting, embroidery, printing, etc.
Landscape Postcards - the making of a series of landscape postcards from inspiration and sketch to execution.
Spiders' web photos - spectacular photographs of spiders' webs in my garden on a frosty day.
City and Guilds entries - further entries about City and Guilds courses and more details of my City & Guilds design work.

Follow the links to view my fabric postcards, journal quilts, wallhangings and other works.

Journal Quilt Project
These small journal quilts were made each month in 2005 for the Journal Quilt Project. Each page gives a photo of that month's journal quilt and the notes I made for each quilt.

January - a single wisteria pod hanging on a bare branch.
February - wisteria pod design abstracted.
March - abstract representation of a kitchen as described by Rumer Godden in The Greengage Summer using collaged fabrics, beads and other textures.
April - inspired by a weeping willow with the sun behind it in the springtime.
May - patterns and doodles.
June - another abstracted design inspired by the wisteria pod, this time by layering fabrics and cutting them back to reveal more textures underneath.
July - design inspired by a cocoon and words and feelings which are associated with it.
August - design inspired by the G8 summit of 2005 on poverty in Africa using newspaper clippings and ripped, woven fabric.
September - humorous self portrait using lurid fabrics.

Fabric Postcards
These fabric postcards were designed to go through the post, signed and postmarked like an ordinary postcard.

Street Scene - a series of postcards showing rain-soaked streets, using sheer fabrics over painted calico to give the feeling of reflected light in the rain.
Dream - postcards made by trapping fabrics and threads under net and other sheer fabrics.
Flight - abstract designs depicting flying birds.
Animal prints - Postcards made by printing with Indian wooden printing blocks of animals and embellished.
Abstract Cityscapes - Abstract cityscapes made by fusing fabrics.
Textured Postcards - Abstract designs using stitched textured wallpaper and other appliqued and printed shapes.
Debris - Abstract postcard using textured mixed media and sheer fabrics.
Spirals collage - Collaged mixed media postcards with printed spiral designs.
Tree postcard - Postcard with printed and stitched trees.
Hidden Depths - Postcard with lots of layers using trapped threads and fabrics, sheers and couched decorative threads.
Spirals - Postcard with spirals produced by wrought iron design using Tyvek and dyed fabrics.
Swirl - Postcard made by printing gold fabric paint using design developed on City and Guilds course.

City and Guilds Work
I studied for the City and Guilds Certificate in Patchwork and Quilting from 2001 to 2003. The course involves learning about design and putting what has been learnt into practice by making various artifacts. This section shows the work I did for it.

Hidden Life - Quilt inspired by crocodiles found in the Sahara Desert.
Dreaming Spirals - Quilt which inspired the name of my website. I used the design of a wrought iron gate but in reverse. Integral hanging device.
Dennis the Menace Window Blind - Item of home decor/soft furnishings. Window blind with screen printed Dennis the Menace character from the Beano magazine.
Hexagonal Bead box - Bead box using dragonfly wings as inspiration. Has detachable inside container.
Sunset Knapsack - Knapsack inspired by colours of sunset and stitched in bargello patchwork pattern.
Coral Cushion Design - Design developed for course based on coral design using transfer printing - commissions accepted!
Clutch bag - weathered rock and stone colours - Clutch bag in browns, oranges and blue colours, using appliqued fabrics and free machine embroidery.
Design Boards for Course - a look at some of the designs I developed on the course under headings such as Living Forms, Landscape, Manmade objects, etc.
End of Year Exhibition - the results of the three year course.

Mixed Media Spirals Collage - a wallhanging using various mixed media and featuring a predominant spiral motif.
Tulip - Design based on a close up photograph of a tulip in my garden. Painted fabric embellished with free machine stitching.
Seaside - houses huddling together on a seafront with sea made with layered sheers and embroidery over calico.
Elements in Fabric - Small quilts made during an online class by Linda Schmidt:

Forest Fire - Colourful fire quilt made with layered sheers and fusible fabric
Sea - Water quilt replicating the effect of waves by using heated, distorted cellophane, angelina and other media.
Thunderstorm - Clouds made by layering sheer fabrics, cotton wool and other interesting fabrics.

Austrian landscape - Small quilt made of patchwork and applique depicting the Achensee in the Austrian Tyrol.

Dyed and Painted Fabrics
A selection of my dyed and painted fabrics, ranging from fabric paints, rusted fabric, procion-dyed fabric, etc.

Acrylic painted fabric - Bold abstract design using acrylic paints on calico fabric.
Zigzag fabric design - Silk dupion and fabric paints.
Sun printed fabric - Cotton fabric sun printed using leaves and flowers.
More sun printed fabric - More sunprinted fabric using leaves and flowers.
Rust dyed fabric - Silk dyed using rusty objects to give spectacular designs.
Painted damask fabric - textural design on cotton/polyester damask fabric using acrylic paints.
Sparkly painted fabric - cotton monoprinted with blue and silver opaque and glittery fabric paints
Pink painted silk fabric - habutai silk fabric painted with fabric paints.