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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...

Letting go and getting on it

by | Mar 22, 2025 | Abject, Abstract Painting, Acrylic, Art Discourse, Artist, Crochet, Doilies, ECUAD MFA, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Handwork, Imagination, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, MakingIsConnecting, MFA, Personalispolitical, Re-use, Reimagine, Stitching, Tactility, Textile Art, Upcycle, Vancouver

Our job as artists is to imagine different futures (Originally published Feb. 23, 2025 on Substack)I made a bit of a scene when Friedrich Irrgang confirmed that he was retiring after 62 short years in the timepiece-repair business. And just what will become of my...

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...

Dancing on the edge

by | 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 pain​When 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...

Fleeting thoughts of granny squares

by | 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 fantasy​​The 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...