by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 5, 2025 | Abundance, Accumulations, Art Quilt, Collection, Creative Process, Edward Burtynsky, Hearth, Hoarding, Overabundance, Painting, Pattern, Pop-Up, PopUp, Quilt Block, Quilting, Repetition, Scale
I’ve learned to live with a head full of bees but these days it’s all about wasps.So. Many. Wasps. Wasps that retreated indoors last week after the pest-control guy shot up the kitchen fan vent with a killer powder. Wasps that just wouldn’t stay away even...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 6, 2025 | Abject, Abstract Painting, Activism, Agency, Art Activism, Art Quilt, Covid, ECUAD MFA, Exhibition, Found Materials, Gathering, Hand Stitching, Handmaking, Hearth, Installation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Log Cabin, MakingIsConnecting, Pandemic, Quilt, Quilt Block, Rote Activity, Social Art, Social Distancing, Social Engagement, Upcycle, Upcycling, Zero Waste Art
Hand-making outside the dominant economic system The news is inescapable. The Trump tariffs announced last week will “rupture the global economy,” warns the Prime Minister. This is on top of the inflationary wallop on 45 per cent of Canadians who reported that rising...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 10, 2025 | Art Quilt, Collaboration, Experimentation, Fabric, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Form And Function, Found Materials, Geometric Art, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Handmaking, Improvisation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Meditative, Quilt, Quilting, Sashiko, Textile Art, Use Object, Vancouver
Handmade quilts of found fabrics layer up multiple meanings The squirrels that inhabit my head have been threatening to start a roller derby so I’ve shut it all down by doing something constructive: I’m literally wrapping myself up in my ongoing Perfectly...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 23, 2024 | Art Quilt, Burlap, Collage, Denim, Expanded Painting, Experimentation, Failure, Found Materials, Jeans, Material Exploration, Quilting, Tyvek
Past failures are invaluable teaching toolsThis is my picking-up-the-pieces post, which is literally what I’m doing these days (and late nights).With the outlook looking very dark indeed I turned to my colourful stash of fabrics that I keep at eye level in a wine...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 7, 2024 | Anxiety, Art Quilt, Carlyn Yandle, Collaboration, Colour, Conceptual Craft, Connection, Craftsmanship, Embroidery, Forage, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Heirloom, Linen, Quilt, Quilt Block, Quilting, Sewing, Slow Craft, Textiles
Is it easy to cut up hand-embroidered linen tablecloths, runners, pillowcases?It is not. As an adequate hand-stitcher I understand the skill, labour, time and patience that goes into each linen. I understand the desire to cherish these vintage domestic-craft objects...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 2, 2024 | Abstract Painting, Anxiety, Art Discourse, Art Quilt, Carlyn Yandle, Circular Thinking, Color, Colour, Conceptual Craft, Creative Process, Distraction, Experimentation, Exploration, Fabric, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Flow, Geometric Art, Hand Stitching, Hybrid Thinking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Mathematics, Needlework, Painting, Perception, Playing, Quilt, Quilt Block, Visual Field
I opened up my studio yesterday to the public to get some general feedback on a new series of paintings. Because even though I’m compelled to keep working on it and even though I’m enjoying a growing proficiency in this mash-up of stitching and painting I’m having...
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