by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 29, 2017 | Art, Color, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Doilies, Dyeing, Experimentation, Fabric, Found Objects, Innovation, Quilt, Quilting, Sewing, Stitching, Work Wraps
“Your hair seems blue,” a friend noted over dinner.It really is. I’ve joined the blue-rinse gang — emphasis on the blue. Denim blue is an unnatural hair hue that seems only natural now that I’m surrounded by heaps of old jeans and altering all those tones of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 19, 2016 | Art, Art Show, Artist Residency, Composition, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Eastend, Embroidery, Exhibit, Experimentation, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Handwork, Innovation, Installation, Landscape, Mixed Media, Needlework, Paint, Painting, Playing, Process, Quilt, Residency, Retreat, Saskatchewan, Scale, Social Engagement, Stitching, Textile, Wallace Stegner House
Day 12 painting: Embroidered details in a scene of a newly “thrashed” hay field. I’ve just returned from a month in the big country of southwest Saskatchewan: big skies, big farming operations, big empty days that were all too much at the start of my...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 15, 2015 | Buttons, Discomforter, Fabric, Failure, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Qr Code, Quilt, Sewing
There is really no way to know whether a blanket covered in brightly coloured buttons will read until the very end of all the work so I wanted to build in the likelihood of failure. That’s how I came to decide on “The devil is in the details” as the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 31, 2014 | Buttons, Children, Collaboration, Craft, Creative Process, Expression, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Garment, Halloween, Mister Rogers, Performance, Thrift Stores, Vancouver
What do you do when one of your closest friends is in the hospital with complications and the weather outside is the perfect visual for seasonal depression? You make!And so I devote this column to the silly business of making and make-believe in trying times. First,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 21, 2014 | Additive, Beauty, Buttons, Color, Colour, Composition, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Critique, Design, Distraction, Fabric, Fabricating, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Ideas, Innovation, Motivation, Pattern, Perception, Performance Art, Polly-apfelbaum, Process, Production, Project, Qr Code, Quilt, Textile, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Visual Field
After three months of sewing one donated button after another into a giant QR code, the big moment arrived this week: time to stand back and scan that baby with a reader app, translating this quilt-thing to read, “The devil is in the details.”Except it...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 30, 2014 | Design, Fabric, Fabricating, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Studio, Textile, Tools, Upcycling
The denim Dakota, from hedleyandbennett.com Most people will admit that their everyday clothes are a sort of uniform. We need to keep it pretty simple because we’re likely dressing in the dim of the still-dark morning when we’d rather spend those extra...
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