{"id":2780,"date":"2020-10-06T11:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:14:04","slug":"mending-progress-rachel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/mending-progress-rachel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mending Progress &#8211; Rachel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2801-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2801-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2801-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2801-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2801-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2801-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2801-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For this mending assignment, I chose to mend my boyfriend&#8217;s old Stanford sweater that he wore a lot in high school. When he came to CMU, he ended up roughly tearing off the letters with an x-acto knife, and left holes and a ghost remnant of what used to be. (He said it was because he liked the sweater but he did not want to represent Stanford while here.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He hasn&#8217;t worn it in a while, so I thought maybe if I mend it and give it new meaning, it might be worthwhile. Instead of restoring the letters from before, what if I filled in some to spell out something else- I am leaning towards &#8220;SAD&#8221; right now, but maybe I could put in new letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2810-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2810-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2810-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2810-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2810-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2810-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2810-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It took me a while to figure out what to do, but I decided to just take the pattern across the whole word horizontally, and only make vertical lines for the letters I want. I haven&#8217;t gotten there yet. It took around 4 hours just to lay the horizontal part across and I am still missing a little! (I ran out of that color of embroidery floss.) However, I am pretty happy with how it&#8217;s turning out, and how there now exists a lineage of alterations to this sweater with time and attitude. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this mending assignment, I chose to mend my boyfriend&#8217;s old Stanford sweater that he wore a lot in high school. When he came to CMU, he ended up roughly tearing off the letters with an x-acto knife, and left holes and a ghost remnant of what used to be. (He said it was because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/mending-progress-rachel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mending Progress &#8211; Rachel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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\/2780"}],"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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}