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 | Jan 23, 2015 | Art Discourse, Artist, Artist Statement, Critique, Crochet, Doilies, Doily, Domestic, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Handwork, Inspiration, Lecture, Macrame, Making, Net, Pecha Kucha, Pechakucha, Performance, Social Engagement, Wrap I, Wrap II
This just uploaded… Six and a half minutes devoted to that question I get a lot:”What’s up with the doilies?”(Video courtesy of Terry Fox Theatre’s PechaKucha program. More info on the entertaining, informative and globally-popular...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 16, 2015 | Additive, Architecture, Art, Collaboration, Color, Colour, Craftivism, Crafts, Crochet, Culture Jamming, Design, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Fabricating, Fashion, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Granny Square, Grid, Handwork, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Making, Pattern, Public Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Visual Field, Yarn Bombing
Maybe it’s the chilly monochromatic climate at work here, but I’m suddenly wrapping myself up granny squares. The more I think about them, the more potential I see.There’s a lot of culture woven into those fuzzy little colour grids. They’re...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 5, 2014 | Art Show, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Crochet, Cultural Hub, Culture, Dear Human, Design, Exhibit, Fabricating, Festival, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Fuzzy Logic, Gallery, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Knitting, Lecture, Maker, Openings, Playing, Process, Project, Rachael Ashe, Spore, TO DO, Toronto Design Offsite, Vancouver
It’s getting close to a decade since I packed it all in: my needles and wool, my sewing machine and fabrics, my mid-level-management career. There was more to explore.I’ve been mixing it up with a wide range of materials (and makers) ever since but even...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 11, 2014 | Assemblage, Color, Colour, Construction, Crafts, Creative Process, Design, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Industry, Installation, Knotting, Macrame, Raw Materials, Sculpture, Technology, Textile, Upcycling
Macrame-ing cable wire. Carlyn Yandle photo A big shout-out to the recycling staffer at my local Return-It depot who painstakingly went through a bin full of snarls of computer cables to select the ones with the most colourful clusters of wire for me.I find it tough...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 4, 2014 | Alison Woodward, Collaboration, Conceptual Art, Connie Sabo, Craft, Crafts, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Exhibit, Fiber, Fibre, Hot Art Wet City, Ideas, Innovation, Installation, Invention, Joseph-wu, Newspapers, Openings, Process, Rachael Ashe, Sarah-gee-miller, Semiotics, Vancouver, Weaving
Clockwise from top: Connie Sabo, Rachael Ashe and Sarah Gee Miller with their respective works. (Carlyn Yandle photos) Sarah Gee Miller says she’s pretty handy. That’s the understatement of the evening. Her paper ‘paintings’ are not only...
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