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The future is fungal

The future is fungal

by | 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...
Beyond a cozy retreat

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...
Time to find focus

Time to find focus

by | Jan 4, 2025 | Abstract Painting, Acrylic, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Distraction, Distracts, Fiber Artist, Geometric Art, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Painting, Pattern, Personalispolitical, Political Art, Process, Quilt Painting, Trump, Vancouver

Depicting a distracted mind might not be helping Disrupting the grid, upending predictable patterns. Acrylic on canvas, sewing pins, 24” x 24” (Carlyn Yandle) If the person I share the bed with is to be believed, this morning (as of this writing) I announced in my...
On radical self-care

On radical self-care

by | 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 making​First 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....
An iron will is needed now

An iron will is needed now

by | Nov 4, 2024 | Assemblage, Fabric, Fast Fashion, Fiber Artist, Fibre, Flo, Ironing, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Meditation, Meditative, Quilt Block, Quilting, Sewing, Textile, Textiles, Trump

Working out those wrinkles is so satisfyingIf you’re uselessly wringing your hands right about now, pump some iron.Hear me out: Ironing is useful, which, in the few days left before the US election, is the opposite position of those of us watching who can’t vote or...