{"id":5022,"date":"2021-12-13T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2021-12-17T05:38:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T10:38:57","slug":"independent-project-final-blog-post-claire-yoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/independent-project-final-blog-post-claire-yoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent project final blog post-Claire Yoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Final documentation<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Intended effects<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

My original intention for my final project was to create a reversible tote bag made from my personal clothing that I no longer wear and would have otherwise donated. By repurposing my clothing I wanted to attach meaning to the clothing during this process. As a design student a lot of the projects I create are client based projects where each design choice is carefully thought out and has intent behind it and so for this project I wanted to do something more whimsical and focus on just what I enjoy and like. On one side of the tote I planned on screen printing the word Eggalicious on one side of the tote with material from an unused tote bag and material from a trench coat on the other side. On the flipped side I designed a fake egg log documenting how many eggs I had over the course of three weeks to computer embroider on the side made from the tote bag and the trench coat fabric on the other side.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Initial iterations<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Final design<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Challenges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      After creating my design and was setting up the file I ended up taking out the numbers that symbolized the dates on the calendar as already just setting up the file was taking up too much time and I had too many intricate elements on my design already. But after seeing the end result I think it actually looks better without the numbers as it might look too clustered considering the size of the design as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      In order to use this tote bag for my repurposed tote bag I realized I needed to remove this screen printing from the fabric and I was able to remove it by first rubbing the fabric with nail polish remover and an iron and a wet cloth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Unfortunately, I had to pivot from my original design as I tested positive for Covid and was not granted campus access a few days before the submission deadline for this project. Therefore I was not able to screen print my Eggalicious logo and hand sewed the entire tote as I did not have a sewing machine at home. For the sewing, I practiced back stitching as I have never properly hand sewn something before and tested out different thicknesses for the yarn. Also I made the egg log design into a pocket and used an iron for the folds and extra needles as pins when sewing. When hand sewing, I struggled the most with sewing the straps as the material was a lot thicker and I had to make smaller stitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          Inside of the tote<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

          Successes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

          Despite the unexpected change of plans for my project, I am overall pleased with how my tote turned out and enjoyed hand stitching. I wish I was able to present my work in person and get feedback on my design but I still happy that I got to finish the tote. In the future, once I get access to a sewing machine again I would like to sew in the trench coat fabric on the inside and still be able to screen print my Eggalicious logo. I think this was a really fun hands on project and a great way to familiarize myself with embroidery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Final documentation Intended effects My original intention for my final project was to create a reversible tote bag made from my personal clothing that I no longer wear and would have otherwise donated. By repurposing my clothing I wanted to attach meaning to the clothing during this process. As a design student a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2021a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}