Can you believe we’re at the finale challenge already??? In some ways, it feels like we just started a couple weeks ago and in an another, I feel like I can relate just a little bit to what the designers on Project Runway must feel by the end.  I’m fatigued – idea fatigued.  For the [...]

Just a note:  my response for Challenge #10 will be up within the next day or so.  I had some technical issues with it.  At first my camera wasn’t cooperating; after I did some hard work on it – aka duct taped it back together – that was fixed.  BUT I had laid out my [...]

Challenge 9:  Image is Everything. For this challenge, we were working with male models to create garments suitable for a member of the Canadian rock band The Sheepdogs.  The idea was to create something iconic and unique to that band member.  We had 24 hours to complete this challenge. Iconic and unique? Sigh.  What can [...]

Episode: What Women Want Well, the challenge for this week was to find a man who could describe to us what kind of outfit he would like us to make for his significant other.  He was to have input into colour, design, style but we still had to make our creative voice show through.  We [...]

Episode:  “Can’t We All Just Get Along” This was a tricky challenge for us to interpret.  On the show, they worked in teams, creating printed fabrics and using them to make a cohesive mini collection.  We don’t have teams to work with so we weren’t able to make a collection.  In addition we needed to [...]

Our challenge this week:  The Art of the Matter We were to collaborate with an art student on a work of art.  This artwork would then be used as the inspiration for our design.  Since we don’t all have access to an art student, we were allowed to use a piece of art from within [...]