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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...

Beyond a cozy retreat

by | 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...

An iron will is needed now

by | Nov 4, 2024 | Assemblage, Fabric, Fast Fashion, Fiber Artist, Fibre, Flo, Ironing, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Meditation, Meditative, Quilt Block, Quilting, Sewing, Textile, Textiles, Trump

Working out those wrinkles is so satisfyingIf you’re uselessly wringing your hands right about now, pump some iron.Hear me out: Ironing is useful, which, in the few days left before the US election, is the opposite position of those of us watching who can’t vote or...

End of an era for Vancouver makers

by | Sep 7, 2024 | Carlyn Yandle, Costume, Counter-culture, Creative Process, DIY, Dressed, Fabric, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Halloween, Handmaking, Knitting, Making, Material Exploration, Quilting, Sewing, Stitching, Textile, Textile Art, Vancouver

The one great store that fuels textile dreams is closing due to small-business struggles​​Judging by the early deluge of reactions on Reddit last week, we Vancouver makers are stunned to learn that our mecca for material and more is selling off its inventory and...

Awkward family moment informs art-making aesthetic

by | Jul 14, 2024 | Activism, Aesthetics, Aging, Art Discourse, Art Show, Beauty, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Critique, Dissent, Domestic, Embroidery, Fabric, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Flow, Found Materials, Fuckwit, Garment, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Handmaking, Ideas, Inspiration, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knotting, Macrame, Material Exploration, Motivation, Needlework, Painting, Scaffolds, Unbridled, Wall Hanging, Wearable Art

When I first started out as a suburban-newspaper reporter I had a single original artwork tacked to the wall in my basement suite. It was a life-sized acrylic-on-paper, a nude holding her maybe-pregnant belly against a landscape of spewing factories and...

Circular thinking can be a flow state too

by | 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...