by Carlyn Yandle | 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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 16, 2024 | Boro, Clay Yandle, Collage, Culture, Denim, Embroidery, Fabrication, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Jeans, Landscape, Narrative, Patchwork, Quilting, Recycle, Sashiko, Slow Craft
This one’s for my brother, on his second memorial Father’s Day.I started the artwork just after returning from his ashes-scattering ceremony on one of the Gulf Islands, as he requested in the few weeks before his death. I had suggested a flotilla led by his...
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...
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