by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 14, 2025 | Carlyn Yandle, Climate Change, Conceptual Craft, Creative Process, Drip By Drip, Expanded Painting, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Found Materials, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Making Is Connecting, Material Exploration, Social Engagement
As of this writing, those living or working on 500 properties just 60 kilometres away have been ordered to seek dry land. Those on another 1,000 properties are being told to be ready for word to flee the “slow-moving tsunami” from another flooded river south of the...
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 | Nov 20, 2024 | Collage, Creative Process, Doilies, Doily, Embroidery, Expanded Painting, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Grief, Hybrid Thinking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Political Art, Quilting, Textile Art, Textiles
Making ourselves whole through makingFirst there is shock. I saw it in a coffee shop in a small US city the morning Trump was elected — again. The place was full but hushed. “Are you okay?”, one customer after another whispered to the three female baristas. Nods....
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