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 22, 2015 | Building, Cob, Cob Oven, Collaboration, Construction, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Mud Girls, Nature, Raw Materials, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Where it all began: The Mud Girls retreat that sowed the seed for new/old building modes. Playing with mainly found materials, and whenever possible with other people, offers me the chance to learn about properties and potential of those throw-away materials as well...
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 19, 2014 | Aesthetics, Art, Art School, Artist, Climate Change, Collaboration, Craftsmanship, Design, Form, Handwork, Industrial Design, Maker, Marketing, Production, Sculpture, Technology, Use Object
Dear Santa,I know I haven’t written since I was a kid, and when it comes to wants, I’m pretty much good. Unlike a lot of my neighbours who rent homes that are slated for demolition in the coming year or who have to hit the food bank at the end of every...
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...
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