Sewing Bee 2024

I'd love a show that too. I try and check out Repair Shop every week in case there are any clothes featured, (like the Mr Freedom shoes). And it would be great to see some older women showing off their skills.

Ooh I'd watch that show. I love the repair shop.

We're getting into repair shop meets sewing bee spin-off territory now

I have a vintage tailored jacket that I would love to have restored..great sentimental value.

This is what I'd like, too. Replace a broken zip. Surely that's more "save the planet" than turning usable curtains into unwearable kagouls?

And you therefore aren't the demographic I was talking about now, are you?

I actually wish they'd dump the stupid "turn an umbrella into swimwear" middle challenge and give them more time on the first pattern.

I prefer how it was very very early on: make this crew neck t-shirt into a v-neck, or these trousers into shorts since the knees are out, and so on. Those are real skills. Patching, reparing - make do and mend type of stuff. Younger people are really into that if YouTube/TikTok is anything to go by, and it feeds into the sustainability aspect they half-heartedly try to push.

It's very slapdash, because most home sewing is. Why go to all the trouble of binding seams when you want the dress finished for dancing tomorrow night?

speak for yourself. Most of my home sewing is to a very high standard - french seams, properly inserted zips - pressed seams to within an inch of their lives. At (boarding) school it was usually about speed. I'd buy fabric in town on Saturday morning, sew an outfit saturday afternoon and wear it to the pub or a house party that evening. But None of those really stood the test of time. The box pleated skirt i made in 1990? lasted until at least 2010 when i finally stopped wearing it because i got too fat.

I line things that would look better with lining, and have been known - as in the best French couture houses - to sew zips in by hand.

I live near a university which has a thriving fashion department, so my local cheap fabric shop has lots of young people in it. It's the same when I go into central London, fabric and haberdashery shops have a lot of younger people I'm them. The thing that snnoys me about Sewing Bee is the lack of finishing garments off properly. Wonderful comment about Esme and and Patrick, I won't be able to unsee it either!

Rose really, really isn't a perfectly lovely person.

Whereas I object to "Rose". I am sure they are a perfectly lovely person but if the TV production company wanted to be truly diverse they could reflect the amazing history of the potteries and hire a real woman for the job.

Yes always a gay man, but rarely a lesbian. And yes it is a shitty cliche tick list.

This is so true. I couldn't put my finger on it, but this is what they remind me of now too. 😂

I think the new presenter is cute. Patrick is no longer my eye candy as he and Esme have a Captain Peacock/ Mrs slocombe vibe going on. (Blame the producers)

Hope the sewing improves.

I’m loving Kiell, but then I love Ghosts.

I didn’t notice who they/them were. There was the drag artist in the red dungarees and there was also the Scottish person who made the dreadful cream denim dress who said they were ‘queer’.

Oh, ok, well that wasn’t me. I read both as applying to us both. I don’t have any problem with the guy, just like a few jokes along the previous Sewing Bee/Bake Off model, just me by the sound of it!

I suspect it's referring to him as a "diversity hire" is what is being referred to as rude and wrong rather than a poster's preference for a comic over an actor.

In total agreement with all you have written !

I really wish they’d drop the “transformation challenge “, which has become increasingly gimmicky, and allow the sewers a decent chance of completing two garments to the best of their ability.
Early days, but I quite like the new presenter who doesn’t make it all about him ( I’m looking at you , Joe ).

I don’t see how it’s rude and wrong to prefer a comic over an actor, surely it’s a matter of taste? There are plenty of funny comics who aren’t white (Romesh, Daliso Chaponda) if you’re implying this is subtle racism. Either of those would be great, though maybe they wouldn’t want the gig. Comic doesn’t equal white you know.

Both rude and wrong.

He talked about how he got the job - Patrick WhatsApp’d him and asked if he wanted to do it for a year while Sara Pascoe’s on maternity leave. He’d been a previous celebrity contestant and Patrick liked him.

I like the new presenter.

I also like what I've seen so far if the new presenter. It was always beyond me how the previous contestants kept their patience when Sara P and, before her, Joe L were constantly interrupting and cracking bad jokes when they were stressed and racing against the clock.

I like Kiell, too. He can do whacky but he's keeping a lid on it.

EDI guy actually seems to be one of the more competent ones, though that's not saying much. The pocket on those red dungarees he's wearing is rather wonky.