by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 16, 2015 | Color, Colour, Distracts, Grid, Painting, Psychedelic, Quilt, Textile, Visual Field
Gotta love Salvation Army and the staff’s peculiar display choices. Every other store would break up all the retail items so each one looks unique, but at my local Salarmy they sort by colour, making finding your size sort of a crapshoot. But oh, that visual...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 15, 2015 | Buttons, Discomforter, Fabric, Failure, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Qr Code, Quilt, Sewing
There is really no way to know whether a blanket covered in brightly coloured buttons will read until the very end of all the work so I wanted to build in the likelihood of failure. That’s how I came to decide on “The devil is in the details” as the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 21, 2014 | Additive, Beauty, Buttons, Color, Colour, Composition, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Critique, Design, Distraction, Fabric, Fabricating, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Ideas, Innovation, Motivation, Pattern, Perception, Performance Art, Polly-apfelbaum, Process, Production, Project, Qr Code, Quilt, Textile, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Visual Field
After three months of sewing one donated button after another into a giant QR code, the big moment arrived this week: time to stand back and scan that baby with a reader app, translating this quilt-thing to read, “The devil is in the details.”Except it...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 16, 2014 | Art, Assemblage, Climate Change, Creative Process, Distracts, Doilies, Fabricating, Failure, Foraging, Found Objects, Globalization, Innovation, Inspiration, Painting, Production, Quilt, Raw Materials, Upcycling
Coming up with new ideas is not without its hazards. The world-renowned Noma restaurant is a case in point. Chef-patron Rene Redzepi uses what grows in the area, innovating astounding food creations famously foraged from the local land and sea. Sometimes the magic...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 10, 2014 | Architecture, Collaboration, Fiber, Innovation, Installation, Painting, Pattern, Quilt, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver, Visual Field
Carlyn Yandle photo This is clearly not a staged photo. Pretty much every rule of home decor is ignored here in this old East Van house. And that’s why I love it.Maybe it’s the weather but I’ve just about had enough of the grey-washed matte-bland...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 29, 2013 | Buttons, Collage, Composition, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Discomforter, Fabric, Fabricating, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Project, Qr Code, Quilt, Textile, Upcycling
I’m posting this picture because if I don’t do it now I might cram this doomed project into a green garbage bag and stuff it where the sun don’t shine: in deep storage. I’ve seen through some fraught, laborious projects in my time but I may...
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