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Taking it Outside

by | May 1, 2025 | Abstract, Abstract Embroidery, Art Blog, Artist, Creative Process, Dyeing, Embroidery, Exploration, Expression, Fashion Revolution, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Improvisation, Linen, Mend In Public Day, Mixed Media, Mobile Art Practice, Painting, Practice, Sampler, Stitching, Travel Art

Escaping the dark world of scrolling the socials“Take it outside” was a standard parenting directive back in the 1900s, shouted at the kids when pro-wrestling or trying to extricate a running shoe from the dog’s lock-jaw or whining for no reason. Taking it outside is...

Letting go and getting on it

by | Mar 22, 2025 | Abject, Abstract Painting, Acrylic, Art Discourse, Artist, Crochet, Doilies, ECUAD MFA, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Handwork, Imagination, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, MakingIsConnecting, MFA, Personalispolitical, Re-use, Reimagine, Stitching, Tactility, Textile Art, Upcycle, Vancouver

Our job as artists is to imagine different futures (Originally published Feb. 23, 2025 on Substack)I made a bit of a scene when Friedrich Irrgang confirmed that he was retiring after 62 short years in the timepiece-repair business. And just what will become of my...

End of an era for Vancouver makers

by | 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 struggles​​Judging 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...

work-in-progress ‘Unbridled’ stitches up pain and pleasure

by | Aug 31, 2022 | Carlyn Yandle, Collaboration, Collage, Covid, Craft, Embellishment, Embroidery, Fabric, Fashion, Feminist, Feminist Art, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Hand Stitching, Handwork, Pandemic, Stitching, Tattoo, Text, Textile, Unbridled, Upcycling

Exploring tattoo tropes (Carlyn Yandle photo) Thirty years ago this month I floated down the aisle in a pearly silk dress. Recently I pulled this relic out of deep storage to give it new life.It is a ballerina-length A-line number, a fitted silhouette of crisp,...

Hoping for heat in this log cabin

by | Nov 5, 2019 | Activism, Challenge, Collaboration, Colonialism, Construction, Craftivism, Emily Carr University, Experimentation, Fabricating, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Gentrification, Grid, Handwork, Health, Hearth, Homelessness, Log Cabin, Making, MFA, Quilt, Quilt Block, Quilting, Safe Supply, Stitching, Subversive Stitch, Vancouver

I have this idea for building healthy community in this pretty/cold city through hand-making. It’s a process of making peace with ourselves and connecting with others, transforming individualized desires (thanks, capitalism) into shared desires for a sustainable life...