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by | Jan 30, 2026 | Amanda Wood, Braiding, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Denim, Exhibit, Exhibition, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Fracture, Hand Stitching, Jeans, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knots, Knotting, Macrame, Marine Palette, Material Exploration, Nodes, Playing, Resurge, Seymour Art Gallery, Substack, Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki, Textile, Textile Art, Unravel, Visual Artist

Hope empowers quirky denim objectsI’ve had this exchange a few times this past week:You’re so busy. What are you working on?Uh… hard to say. ​It’s hard to put into words this curious crafty endurance with a deadline. Better to just hold up my needle-scarred fingers...

From break to breakthrough

by | Jan 21, 2026 | Art Blog, Carlyn Yandle, Collage, Creative Process, Dyeing, Found Materials, Inspiration, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Making Is Connecting, Material Exploration, Mobile Art Practice, Painting, Pattern, Photography, Playing, Travel Art

Making space for the creative process, at home or away​​The following is a public service announcement for all those cowering from the liquid gunmetal-grey skies on this bone-chilling coast: Crank up the Vitamin D. We need 800-1000 IUs per day so pop a supplement or a...

Quilting and connecting

by | Sep 7, 2025 | Canadian Artist, Carlyn Yandle, Collaboration, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Handmaking, MakingIsConnecting, Meditative, Quilt, Quilt Block, Quilting, Textile Art, Use Object, Vancouver

If you stitch it (in public) they will come​An artist-instructor friend advised me, as I was preparing my portfolio to apply to art school, that if I was planning to include images of my quilts and rag rugs and mosaic’d vessels, I should group these as Craft Use...

The future is fungal

by | Jan 18, 2025 | Abstract Painting, Carlyn Yandle, Crochet, Embroidery, Entanglements, Fiber Artist, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Handmaking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, LA Fires, Mapping, Material Exploration, Mixed Media, Mushroom, Mycelium, Nature, Painting, Pattern, Renewal, Repairing Is Caring, Spore, Vancouver

Mushrooms and more for troubled times When you spend a good portion of your winter cowering from the cold and the rain, it’s hard to fathom the fiery desert winds that are obliterating entire neighbourhoods just a three-hour flight south. In the near-real-time images...

Time to find focus

by | Jan 4, 2025 | Abstract Painting, Acrylic, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Distraction, Distracts, Fiber Artist, Geometric Art, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Painting, Pattern, Personalispolitical, Political Art, Process, Quilt Painting, Trump, Vancouver

Depicting a distracted mind might not be helping Disrupting the grid, upending predictable patterns. Acrylic on canvas, sewing pins, 24” x 24” (Carlyn Yandle) If the person I share the bed with is to be believed, this morning (as of this writing) I announced in my...