The Quilt & Textile Study Group of WA

end of the weeks and a weekend trip

18 Sep

WEEK THIRTY SEVEN (september 11-17) I have been writing this blog weekly for over two and a half years. My ultimate aim was to prioritise making art but I also wanted to work transparently. I was keen to review how ... Read more »

thank heaven for thursday arvo

28 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY NINE (july 17-23) It was a scrappy week of wet winter weather. It was a scrappy week in regards to time management. Visits by lovely little people every day except Tuesday and Saturday made control of the ToDo ... Read more »

something is brewing

20 Mar

Jan Mullen

WEEK ELEVEN (march 13-19) I am continually exploring my future, a way forward that can nuture my increasingly desperate need to move to a different level of my art practice. Barriers exist that manage to thwart me on a daily ... Read more »

priority push-me-pull-you

30 Jan

Jan Mullen

WEEK FOUR (january 23-29) For quite a while I’ve been trying really hard to come up with ways to use my time wisely and consistently, but a continual priority push-me-pull-you of tasks and projects that, like toddlers, demand my attention ... Read more »

chiseling away

21 Nov

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY-SIX (november 14-20) This was such a big week filled with little things that I was left in a gently exhausted blur by the end of it… The continuing VERY full family life with lots of ordinary/unmissable ‘contact’ time, ... Read more »

to consider/or not consider/over-considered?

11 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-SEVEN (july4-10) Creativity? Not this week. A bit of slog/whip cracking is needed to get last week’s cushion covers advancing… They are still not finished but getting close…. these are still not considered/over-considered pieces like I usually would do ... Read more »

teamwork is often simply a buzzword….

21 Jun

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-FOUR (june 13-19) The week starts with vim and vigour. I am off early for a swim then gather myself and my bits to head off to Spectrum Project Space, ECU, Mt Lawley. Finally it is setup week and ... Read more »

artistic delight VS scourge of the bush

23 May

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY (may 16-22) Photo Day took place on Tuesday and I was happy to have a piece ready for AW5 – whether it gets selected actually is not too important to me at the moment. What it has done, ... Read more »

a big week of doing/ a big week of thinking

11 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK FOURTEEN (april 4-10) About three weeks ago I purchased an App that I had investigated multiple times. I am often slow in committing with Apps and new ways of working. Will it do what I want it to? Will ... Read more »

clear straight line vs plodding

5 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTEEN (march 28- april 3) As it is now April – a third of the year is gone. It is rushing by – though some days I ease forward and some days I go round in circles. This week ... Read more »