by Carlyn Yandle | May 2, 2013 | Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Doilies, Doily, Fiber Arts, Handwork, Pattern, Process, Tyvek, Wrap I, Wrap II
After a long and often painful labour, I’m happy to introduce…the twins!I’m not sure why I plumped up the two eight-foot-wide doilies, freshly completed today, for their first picture. It might have something to do with this morning’s mammogram.‘Why’ is always a scary...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 7, 2012 | Craft Blogs, Crafts, Crochet, Use Objects, Wool
It’s the most wonder-what-to-make time of the year — or used to be, for me. It was all tra-la-la-la-la and glue-guns and glitter puff paint back when I had the 9-5 office job. Messing with sparkle and colour was just the thing for fending off the stress of the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 26, 2012 | Art, Collaboration, Craft, Crafts, Fabric, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Installation, Knotting, Macrame, Maker, Net, Network, Process, Project, Public Art, Sculpture, Textile
Artist friend and Maker Faire participant Rachael Ashe In his speech to graduates of Toronto’s York University this month, one of my favourite journalists, CBC Radio’s Michael Enright, advised the next working generation to “learn how to fix something. Or make...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 26, 2011 | Crafts, Handwork, Knotting, Macrame, Net, Public Art
Who knew those old patterns for plant-hangers and belts (and whatever that ‘practical’ getup is) would one day inform an art practice? I had a Moment yesterday when I saw the front page of the Richmond Review newspaper, announcing that my design has...
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