For my mending project, I didn’t have any particular clothes with holes that inspired me. However, I do have a Nike windbreaker that I wanted to add patches to, and I was heavily inspired by a pair of shoes that I own: the Nike Paranoise. Made by Korean artist G-Dragon and his fashion company Peace …
I really enjoyed the process of mending my clothing, even though the darning method was really time intensive. On the pants that I chose to mend, there were three spots that had torn. The first was a tear on the pocket from catching on a fence; initially, this tear did not bother me because it …
I had this pair of jeans that I bought a long time ago but haven’t worn in years. I didn’t like its length and fit so decided to mend it with colorful and playful embroidery and patches. At the beginning, I was going to make it less colorful since I wanted to …
Mending and Lazy Daisy French Knots French Knots and Cross Stitches Pants Sideview Pants Front View I didn’t have clothing that particularly needed mending, so I decided to alter a piece of “boring” jeggings that have been sitting in the closet. I have not done proper embroidery since elementary school, and I had doubts about …
Mending Project Elise Delgado Process: I was interested in fixing a ripped windbreaker as well as covering up a stubborn stain on a white shirt. I started with the white shirt and chose to make a visible mend for it because the stain was visible and I wanted to make a cute addition on top …
Since I was already in Florida when school shifted online, I didn’t have most of my regular wardrobe. However, I did have my favorite pair of trainers that I wear daily, one of which has been developing a hole that I never got around to mending. I used the technique Amalia taught us. It worked …
For my doppelgänger project, I decided to recreate a bruised banana figurine I have created by Instagram artist @flabjacks. Flabjack has been one of my favorite artists for creating unique and also at times grotesque characters that are always all tied together with her iconic character face with two large circular eyes and a pair …
For my Doppelganger, I took my trusty heat gun and copied it at a rough 2:1 scale. I chose my heat gun because it’s a tool that I used in cosplay work, taking flat sheets of foam and cutting it based on a pattern and heat-forming curves, a process nearly identical to that of …
Doppelgänger For my doppelgänger project, I decided to re-create a single “sperrys top-sider” shoe, an iconic shoe for New-England Prep school students, which I have been a part of for seven years prior to college. I tried to create a 1:1 ratio inflatable to the original, but I came to realize during my process that …