by Carlyn Yandle | 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 strugglesJudging 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...
by Carlyn Yandle | 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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 7, 2024 | @tinypricksproject, Activism, Art Discourse, Carlyn Yandle, Crochet, Current Conditions, Discomforter, Embroidery, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Hand Stitching, Handmaking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knitting, Protest, Protest Art, Pussy-hat, Slow Craft, Subversive Stitch, Tiny Pricks Project, Trump
The American penchant for patriotic treats is impressive, from jelly shots to meat trays. (Instagram collage) We all sort of forgot about celebrating Canada Day last weekend, up north, on a farm. No fireworks, no flags, no impressive array of themed party foods in the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 13, 2022 | Anxiety, Art Quilt, Boro, Carlyn Yandle, Coronavirus, Cover, Creative Process, Current Conditions, Denim, Embroidery, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hand-stitching, Handmaking, Hashtags, Healing, Jeans, Meditative, Pandemic, Quilt, Quilting, Sashiko, Social Engagement, Stitching, Text, Textile, Vancouver
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” — Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance When my nerves are frayed and it feels like the social fabric is unravelling I feel...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 21, 2021 | Activism, Art Discourse, Art School, Art Show, Artist Statement, Braided Rug, Braiding, Collaboration, Community, Conceptual Art, Conceptual Craft, Construction, Craftivism, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Critique, Crochet, Denim, Domestic, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Exhibition, Experimentation, Exploration, Fabric, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Film, Found Materials, Found Objects, Free Store, Handmaking, Handwork, Hearth, Homelessness, Installation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, MFA, Pattern, Project, Quilt, Quilt Block, Research, Resurge, Scaffolds, Scraps, Slow Craft, Soft Sculpture, Tapestry, Trash Art, Tyvek, Video, Video Tour, Zero-waste Art
Click HERE for a 10-minute journey through the methods and motivations behind this MFA thesis. (Film made by Ana Valine, Rodeo Queen Pictures, August 2020)
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 3, 2020 | Carlyn Yandle, Community Building, Coronavirus, Cover-19, Craftivism, DIY, Fibre, Found Materials, Handmaking, Innovation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Masks, Pandemic, Sewing, Social Engagement, Utility, Vancouver
We who turn to rote hand-making activity to quell our anxiety have been knitting, sewing, embroidering, crocheting and needleworking up a storm. My go-to, like countless others stuck at home, is making masks. As the death tolls roll in, I am on auto-pilot. The thing...
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