The ladies in my family were invited to NYC for a ‘girls weekend’. After a huge calendar search, Labor Day Weekend was selected as “our time”.
Ironically, this is the weekend b...
Sep 08, 2011
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I was on a FABULOUS excursion to New York City for this week’s episode, so instead of a “two day” challenge, I had about 1.5 hours to ‘make it work’.
“Avant Garde&#...
Sep 08, 2011
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Let’s face it everything is cuter when it’s smaller, toy dogs, mini cupcakes, children. So, this week we are asking you to make something smaller. Whether that is using shrinky dinks, fe...
Sep 08, 2011
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This week for Iron Craft we were all challenged to make something that would could be entered in the State Fair. With over 1300 different categories there was plenty to choose from. Here is a look a...
Sep 07, 2011
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Jenn Grigoryev posted a wonderful quilt called Lightning Zigzag.
It grabbed my attention. it is mostly white, but the color that is there is striking and well done. Its bright and bold and very...
Sep 06, 2011
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I have been busily knitting away on the raglan shaping on my 8,000 Feet Hoodie. Raglan shaping really is just making increases on either side of your markers to grow the front, sleeves, and back of th...
Sep 05, 2011
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A few more designers came running out of the workroom needles in hand to make it to the runway this week….
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Sep 04, 2011
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Challenge – The Art of the Matter
Collaborate on a work of art with a student. That artwork will be an inspiration for an avant garde design. The garment should be inspired by the artwork, but ...
Sep 02, 2011
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This week the designers were challenged to make an outfit to go with Heidi’s line of New Balance tennis shoes. They were to use denim or suede in the design. Let’s see what our designers...
Sep 01, 2011
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This week, we were given some ambiguous directions. What I do know is that we were supposed to use suede and/or denim, and the look was going to be worn with sneakers. (have you ever seen a model in s...
Sep 01, 2011
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