quilts – Page 4

Send it off

5 Oct

WEEK THIRTY-NINE – (sept. 28-october 4) My first feathering piece, feathering the nest #1 – of hope & glory was accepted into the Art Quilt Australia 2015 exhibition to be held at The Wool Museum, Geelong. This week it was ... Read more »

simply empty the fridge

30 Sep

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY-EIGHT – (sept. 21-27) If you’ve been reading my blog of late you will have noticed an increasingly stressed undertone….but not this week.… Ages ago I promised to take a few friends to our little house, to get together ... Read more »

start of the week/end of the week

20 Sep

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY-SEVEN – (sept. 14-20) THE START OF THE WEEK It’s been mostly another week of sitting on my bottom-friendly stool. Another week of tap, tap, tapping….of searching for the correct words….of trawling through and trying to make sense of, ... Read more »

circles, six by six, and sampling

31 Aug

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY-FOUR – (august 24 – 30) This was to be the year of the final uploads on Patternspot and with just over fifty converted and waiting patiently online there are not too many left now that I really want ... Read more »

monday, tuesday, wednesday….

10 Aug

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY- ONE – (august 3 – 9) monday – feathering the nest #2 is finished. tuesday – photo day for feathering #1 & #2. wednesday – a quick visit to NEW INDIAN TEXTILES @ Fremantle Arts Centre, organisation for ... Read more »

chasing warmth

27 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-NINE – (july 20-26) The first half of the week was spent finishing the first FEATHERING piece. Firstly, I needed to pin down the feathers needing hand stitch to hold them in securely in place. The feathers are three ... Read more »

my feathers, pelican feathers

8 Jun

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-TWO – ( june 1-7) In between other commitments this week I managed to print out more Weldon photos and to make a pile, nay, a beautiful array of feathers. Starting with the biggest size that I anticipate I’ll ... Read more »

the photo in my head

2 Jun

Jan Mullen 1

WEEK TWENTY-ONE – ( may 25 -31) It fascinates me that on a new work there is a disconnect between what is in my head – that is, what I actually see like it has been photographed already – to ... Read more »

baby bunting & cosey corner

4 May

Jan Mullen

WEEK SEVENTEEN– (april 28 – may 3) As you are now likely aware from recent posts, I have been working, very slowly for a couple of years and very quickly of late, to re-edit my older STARGAZEY quilt patterns, updating ... Read more »

a trumpet at mid morn

28 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK SIXTEEN – (april 20 – 27) When I set up this Black Swan project, and this blog, I did it like all the proper business plans I’ve written ….ooops that would be none! These formulaic plans, this way of ... Read more »