by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 18, 2025 | Abstract Painting, Carlyn Yandle, Crochet, Embroidery, Entanglements, Fiber Artist, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Handmaking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, LA Fires, Mapping, Material Exploration, Mixed Media, Mushroom, Mycelium, Nature, Painting, Pattern, Renewal, Repairing Is Caring, Spore, Vancouver
Mushrooms and more for troubled times When you spend a good portion of your winter cowering from the cold and the rain, it’s hard to fathom the fiery desert winds that are obliterating entire neighbourhoods just a three-hour flight south. In the near-real-time images...
by Carlyn Yandle | 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...
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....
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 3, 2024 | Collaboration, Cosplay, Costume, Critique, Found Materials, Grief, Halloween, Handmade, Inspiration, Material Exploration, Paper Sculpture, Papier Mache, Performance
This craftiest time of year is laced with painWhen you’ve recently lost a loved one, certain annual occasions are rough: Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries. For me, it’s Halloween. That’s when my brother was a full-steam-ahead creative force and crafty...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 25, 2024 | Counter Culture, Crochet, Found Materials, Fuzzy Logic, Goblin Core, Granny Square, Grannycore, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Knitting, Logo Sweater, Material Exploration, Needlework, Roses Against Violence, Seattle Art Museum, Spore, Vancouver, Xenobia Bailey
The Wet Coast is no place for this fuzzy fantasyThe trees are sun-kissed radiant red and gold as I hunker down to write this, in that little sliver of crisp and dry days between the months of dumb-dumb flipflops and the damn rain boots. Not that I’m complaining...
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