by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 30, 2026 | Amanda Wood, Braiding, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Denim, Exhibit, Exhibition, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Fracture, Hand Stitching, Jeans, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knots, Knotting, Macrame, Marine Palette, Material Exploration, Nodes, Playing, Resurge, Seymour Art Gallery, Substack, Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki, Textile, Textile Art, Unravel, Visual Artist
Hope empowers quirky denim objectsI’ve had this exchange a few times this past week:You’re so busy. What are you working on?Uh… hard to say. It’s hard to put into words this curious crafty endurance with a deadline. Better to just hold up my needle-scarred fingers...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 7, 2025 | Canadian Artist, Carlyn Yandle, Collaboration, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Handmaking, MakingIsConnecting, Meditative, Quilt, Quilt Block, Quilting, Textile Art, Use Object, Vancouver
If you stitch it (in public) they will comeAn artist-instructor friend advised me, as I was preparing my portfolio to apply to art school, that if I was planning to include images of my quilts and rag rugs and mosaic’d vessels, I should group these as Craft Use...
by Carlyn Yandle | 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...
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 | 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 makingFirst 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....
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 12, 2024 | Art Activism, Art Discourse, Arts And Crafts, Community Building, Coronavirus, Covid, Fiber Artist, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Masks, Pandemic, Sewing, Social Distancing, Social Distancing Hat, Social Engagement, Socialart, Subversive Stitch, Textile Art, Vancouver
Masks keep our germs to ourselves but I don’t have to like themPeople! Am I going to have to bring out my Social Distancing Hat again? Everyone I know is either in the grips of one plague or another or sharing stories about a friend with Long Covid or flu or...
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