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What a week and Project Runway

Goodness gracious, what a road trip week! Tuesday I drove 120 miles round trip to Bangor to teach. Thursday (yesterday) I drove to Lowell, Massachusetts (about 3 1/2 – 4 hours south if you mind the speed limit, which it appears NO one on I-95 does…..ahem….) to give a lunchtime talk at The New England Quilt Museum (I’ll blog about that tomorrow if I get home soon enough). Tomorrow, I head to Augusta for an Art Quilts Maine meeting, then Monday to Deborah’s house for our last Frayed Edges meeting with her living in Maine…. we are all plugging along bravely (or not) on that one.

I finally had time to watch my taped Project Runway. OK, I was really sorry to see Andre go, especially since Kara hasn’t, to my mind, produced nearly as good a body of work. But, his dress did look rather like a doormat or a dry late summer lawn. I like the bodice on Kara’s, and the braided grasses, but the skirt …yuk.

Oddly enough, I LOVED Santino’s dress…I thought it was one of the nicest, and loved the skirt. I felt he used the materials well, got a great shape out of it, and really (to my surprise) thought it was one of the best things he has done on the show.

Chloe’s dress was lovely, and I know she didn’t have time to finish what she planned, but I thought it was fairly plain around the neck area. I’d like to see what she would have done with more time. The dress *did* look like fabric, and it moved like fabric, which was quite an accomplishment.

I was SO afraid they were going to axe Nick…I love his work, and I thought the use of materials and textures was clever. Glad he’s still in the running!

Daniel’s dress really was a winner….the purple flowers were stunning, and so was the basketweave bodice. I don’t know how many women (maybe seven in the world) could get away with wearing a frilly, fern-y skirt like that, but the contrast of three distinct textures was spot-on. Now, I’m finally gonna go blog-surfing and see what everyone else said! Grin!

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