{"id":2760,"date":"2020-10-05T23:35:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2020-10-05T23:35:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:35:50","slug":"mending-in-progress-marissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/mending-in-progress-marissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mending in Progress- Marissa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am inspired by Celia Pym’s sweater mending projects and how she transforms articles of clothing with darning. I went thrifting this past weekend for the most unassuming sweater I could find. I plan to cut various sized holes and embellish this brown\/black knit sweater with bright and colorful woven patches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First hole before and after adding a bright pink warp<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I cut a small hole on the sleeve to try darning out for the first time. The embroidery thread worked well with the sweater fabric. To avoid sewing the back of the sweater, I put a mason jar in the sleeve to hold the shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finished sleeve trial darning<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I definitely want to experiment with making the weaving section more visible for other patches, but I think that will be size dependent. I’m excited to see how I can continue to turn this sweater into a unique, expressive, and wearable piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am inspired by Celia Pym’s sweater mending projects and how she transforms articles of clothing with darning. I went thrifting this past weekend for the most unassuming sweater I could find. I plan to cut various sized holes and embellish this brown\/black knit sweater with bright and colorful woven patches. I cut a small … Continue reading “Mending in Progress- Marissa”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}