Sunday, September 15, 2013

If you were judging by the lack of blog posts, you might think there's nothing interesting going on at Row West.    The truth is, this summer has seen some very fun and interesting uniform designs and an intense workload.   Here are some (not all) of the designs that I worked on and subsequently printed, cut and sewed for teams in a few different sports...

Canoe Kayak Saskatchewan for the Canada Summer Games



Blacktips Quidditch (Uniform design by Lauren Mosley)

York Quidditch

Titans Quidditch

Aspire Triathlon 

Team Nova Scotia - Canada Summer Games

 Utah Crimson Fliers - Quidditch (uniform design by Jen Jewell)


In the tiny times between orders, I also created dye sublimation sandwich boards for Shawnigan House Coffee- highly recommended if you are ever in Shawnigan Lake.  I built a go kart that rides on train track rails for my kids (and general exercise from pulling the kids along in it) , I completed 3 lego sets - two copies of the Horizon Express Train (so they can link together to form a bullet train, and the Grand Prix Racer. I got jumping stilts, which may be a bad idea, but definitely a fun thing.  It's pretty scary running down the road in these things.

So, it's into school season again and I'm finishing up jerseys for Ecole Cobble Hill's athletics program, working on uniforms for several rowing clubs around Canada and several Quidditch Teams from both the USA and Canada.    The only thing I wish for is more time to sneak out to downtown Victoria to skateboard and see movies.

Here's hoping I can post more cool designs as I roll along.  My next door neighbour and designer Darian Slater has some ideas in the pipeline that I hope to help him bring into reality.  He's a Grade 12 student with some cool ideas for snowboarding gear that I think would also work in sports like Rowing.