{"id":7698,"date":"2015-02-19T18:41:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T18:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/?p=7698"},"modified":"2015-02-19T18:51:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T18:51:52","slug":"meet-menders-tanya-andersson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2015\/02\/19\/meet-menders-tanya-andersson\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Menders: Tanya Andersson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the February Repair Fair, we interviewed\u00a0<strong>Tanya Andersson,\u00a0<\/strong>a regular sewing volunteer. Tanya began volunteering last winter, and has helped mend clothes at three Repair Fairs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/02\/P1090012-edit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7712\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/02\/P1090012-edit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>What do you do outside of the repair fairs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I work at OSU, I work for Parking Services. Outside of the Repair Fair I sew; I am a quilter. I&#8217;ve pretty much been sewing since I was about five, I realized, and I\u2019m much older than five now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who taught you how to sew?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My mother and my grandmother together&#8230;and when I was growing up you could learn sewing in school, so I took sewing classes in middle school and high school. And I was in girl scouts, and you sew in girl scouts, so I had those opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your thoughts on the Repair Fair?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s a great opportunity.\u00a0I&#8217;ve been talking to all of my students and all of my coworkers about it, reminding them that it is coming up and telling my students about it, saying \u201cOh, do you have a pair of pants that need a button replaced?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you like to see with today\u2019s societies or communities involving repair?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019d be awesome if communities did things like the Repair Fair on a bigger level. You could have a Repair Fair at the farmer\u2019s market, or something like that.<\/p>\n<p><em>This post is a part of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/tag\/meet-the-menders\/\">Meet the Menders<\/a>&#8221; blog series, where we feature the volunteers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/recycling\/events-and-opportunities\/repair-fairs\">Repair Fairs<\/a>. Interested in becoming a repair volunteer? Contact <a href=\"http:\/\/recycle.oregonstate.edu\/email\/node\/773\/field_group_email\">Kyle Reed<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the February Repair Fair, we interviewed\u00a0Tanya Andersson,\u00a0a regular sewing volunteer. Tanya began volunteering last winter, and has helped mend clothes at three Repair Fairs. What do you do outside of the repair fairs? I work at OSU, I work for Parking Services. Outside of the Repair Fair I sew; I am a quilter. I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292115,1292119],"tags":[622608,627353,608247],"class_list":["post-7698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-recycling","category-waste-reduction","tag-meet-the-menders","tag-repair-fairs","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7720,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions\/7720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}