On last week’s episode of "Project Runway": The designers wake up to popcorn and start imagining what that might entail. They’re thinking movies or red carpet, but the answer is a double whammy: their first unconventional materials challenge and even more dreaded team challenge.

Materials to be used are things you would find in a movie theater, from tickets to concession straws, and the challenge for the three-person teams is to create a cohesive collection of three garments.

Hawaii designer Kini Zamora’s teammates are Mitchell Perry and Char Glover, and they opt to create blueish cocktail dresses mostly from tickets.

It doesn’t sound promising when mentor Tim Gunn, during a critique session, asks Zamora of his bulky design, "Is it going to be a big braiding pupu platter?"

There already is a feeling among the designers that Angela Sum and Sandhya Garg are the weakest. so the focus is on their teams, which means Zamora appears safe. Indeed he is, and he moves on to compete on Thursday’s episode, airing at 7 p.m. on Lifetime.

I haven’t been wowed by the designers to date, and due to the nature of the materials, most of the creations have a crafty feel. The exception was Sean Kelly’s Cruella de Vil-inspired coat of white straws, easily the best garment of the night.

In the end, returning designer Amanda Valentine was named winner by default because Sum’s creation brought down Kelly’s team.

Garg won the previous week’s episode so she had immunity from elimination, but her design brought down her team and thus Carrie Sleutskaya was sent home.