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Joyful making in perilous times

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#🧶 #stitchresisters #sewsters #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #yarnbombing #socialart #knitting 🧶

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AOC with some hope and even more important, instructions. #AOC #Politics #CallYourReps
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February 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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My new favourite in Michael Moore’s public call for POTUS portraits:

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#joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #weaving #handmaking #craftivism #makersgonnamake #makingisconnecting #trumpportrait
Loom-woven wall hanging or rug depicting Donald Trump with fringe as hair. Created by Little Tree as posted in Michael Moore’s Substack gallery of public portraits of Trump.
April 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Kinda new here so posting this to connect with my craftivist community

#art #craft #craftivism #quilting #subversivestitch #makingisconnecting #slowcraft #handmaking #artwriting #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes

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Beyond a cozy retreat
Handmade quilts of found fabrics layer up multiple meanings
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February 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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It’s not a Slanket, dammit!
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#MakingIsConnecting #JoyfulMakingInPerilousTimes
Working on my night cheese
Granny-square project is the right move
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October 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Spring into creative action!

#joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #art #artsandcrafts #protestart #mentalhealth #sewster #stitcher #handmade #upcycle #thinkpositive #canada #usboycott #fibreart #fiberart #denim #makingisconnecting #subversivestitch #socialart 🧶🧵

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Springing into action
Good orderly direction starts with a hand-written list
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March 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Trump gags are fun but art endures

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#elbowsup #trump #ukraine #canpoli #canadaisnotforsale #canadian #artwriting #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #protestart #makingisconnecting #beatles #vancouver #satire #handmade #creativeprocess #uspoli #criticalthinking
Gags are fun but art endures
From Trump toiletries to Strawberry Fields
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March 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Making my escape
🧵🧶 #makingisconnecting #artmatters #savethecbc #travelart
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Taking it outside
Escaping the dark world of scrolling the socials
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April 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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How craft connects with a loved one gone
#griefwork #makingisconnecting #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #twigart

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Good-enough grief work
Making can connect with a loved one gone
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June 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Creative action beats despair

#creativeprocess #artblog #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #lyndabarry #makingisconnecting

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Back to basics
Small, quick gestures spark creative action
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September 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Learning to resist
#MakingIsConnecting
#artblog #resist #JoyfulMakingInPerilousTimes

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October 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Coming together, through cloth
#makingisconnecting #powerofthepeople
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Resistance can be beautiful
Hand-making outside the dominant economic system
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April 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Actual collage from actual magazines made by an actual human

#50501movement #craftivist #craftivism #uscoup #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #nokingsday #makingisconnecting #buildtheresistance #resisters #socialart #artblog #artwriting #writing #personalispolitical

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My dystopian vision board
An early artwork can stay because it has something new to say
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February 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Drawing (and painting and stitching) my gratitude for Canada’s public media service

#makingisconnecting #artandlife #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #savetheCBC #CBC #disinformation #UScoup #craftivism #embroideryart #fibreart 🧶

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Drawing on gratitude
US coup a warning to defend vulnerable CBC
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February 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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#MakingIsConnecting #JoyfulMakingInPerilousTimes
#MendInPublicDay 🧶🧵🪡

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Makers and menders unite!
'Dark factories' can't replace humane creative action
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April 14, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Hand-making against the generative-AI tide:
#MakingIsConnecting #JoyfulMakingInPerilousTimes #CanadianFibreArt

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Let's get real
Still making it as a 100-per-cent non-synthetic human
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July 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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This is no time to play it safe

#JoyfulMakingInPerilousTimes #MakingIsConnecting #artblog #politicalart

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This is no time to play it safe
Silly satire and kidding around builds resilience
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August 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Ground murals on Arbutus Greenway: another sign that this city is getting better, not worse (screengrab source: r/vancouver.

#makingisconnecting #vancouverart #summerinthecity
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Mural painters bring summery colour and pattern to the bike and walk Greenway on the Arbutus Corridor
July 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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When the small stuff is piling onto the big stuff…

#joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #makingisconnecting #imagine #artwriting #substackartists #visualart #conceptualcraft #craftartist #canadianartist #vancouverartist #artessay #creativeprocess #carlynyandle #handmade 🧶

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Letting go and getting on it
Our job as artists is to imagine different futures
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February 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Another tussle with the Inner Critic

#artblog #creativeprocess #makingIsConnecting #innercritic #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes

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Picture imperfect
Another tussle with the Inner Critic
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August 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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And yet she persisted

#anntelnaes #politicalart #politicalcartoon #makingisconnecting #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes

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Censoring the satirists
ABC suspends "indefinitely" Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show
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September 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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In which I over-use the verb “suck”:
#fakebook #MakingIsConnecting

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Bub-bye Fakebook
Instagram is tougher for artists to quit
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November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Making stuff and writing about it ⬇️

#artblog #makingisconnecting #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes

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I'd rather be cycling
Taking time out is all part of the practice
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May 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Making is connecting!

#makingisconnecting #nofear #socialart #fibreart #artblog #strengthinnumbers #thepeopleunitedwillneverbedefeated #canadastrong #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #carlynyandle #vancouverartist

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Quilting and connecting
If you stitch it (in public) they will come
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June 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Art matters.

#dictatorapproved #makingisconnecting #artmatters #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #politicalart

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New ‘dictator approved’ sculpture arrives in DC - but nobody knows who is behind it
The sculpture boasts quotes from other dictators praising Trump
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June 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Making Stuff and Writing About It: This week: The thin line between collecting and hoarding

#artblog #makingisconnecting #thingpower #hoarding #artwriting #canadianartist #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes

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Once a collector...
It's a thin line between gathering and hoarding
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June 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM