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 come​An 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 | 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 | Sep 21, 2024 | Community Building, Gardening, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Kintsugi, MakingIsConnecting, Mending, Perfectionism, Re-use, Repairing Is Caring, RepairingIsCaring, Sewing, SharingIsCaring, Upcycling, Use Object, Wabi-sabi, Zero Waste Art
Making things better requires thinking creatively, not throwing it all awayCan you do me a favour, a neighbour-friend asked, and I knew his sweet, destructive dog had done it again.The pup, bred to herd, over large tracts of land, has made uneven progress adjusting to...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 26, 2018 | Art, Challenge, Composition, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Domestic, Fabric, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Film, Found Materials, Found Objects, Garment, Innovation, Inspiration, Making, Quilt, Quilting, Recycle, Sewing, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Wool
Clockwise from top left: Great-Grandfather Quilt; Dad’s Throw; Tie Cushion. (Carlyn Yandle photos) Materialistic. People say it like it’s a bad thing.But there’s not necessarily anything selfish or hoardy or wasteful about feeling deeply connected to...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 19, 2014 | Aesthetics, Art, Art School, Artist, Climate Change, Collaboration, Craftsmanship, Design, Form, Handwork, Industrial Design, Maker, Marketing, Production, Sculpture, Technology, Use Object
Dear Santa,I know I haven’t written since I was a kid, and when it comes to wants, I’m pretty much good. Unlike a lot of my neighbours who rent homes that are slated for demolition in the coming year or who have to hit the food bank at the end of every...
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...
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