Yay! Sewing Bee is back!

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Does anyone else watch it? Or is it just me...

I love it because it reminds me of another life when I used to sew (before the DC's came along and before I lost the footpedal to my sewing machine in a house move).

The contestants are just so talented and I like the beardy man judge too. Anyone else?

The t-shirt thing?
I know it's to test their creativity, but it just didn't work for me.

I'm glad Julie went, I can't be bothered with people on shows that do their own thing, even though they have been given a brief/pattern.

They chose a pretty awful tshirt as well. But I liked what Jenny did to the back of hers so I don't mind it when it gives me little ideas to try. But none of them were ever going to be brilliant.

i have been sucked into this, since there is bugger all else on the telly!

I really want to make myself a wrap dress now!

Am in awe of the gorgeous Chinello, she is just so talented and clever with her tape and scissors. Other faves are David and the deaf lady...i still haven't caught her name

David made me laugh lots in the nightie episode, when he kept holding it up to himself.

Wow, Patrick is getting a little friendlier, perhaps that's how he is once he gets to know them a little better.
I didn't get the Simon Cowell remark though as I thought SiCo was know for his highwaister jeans. (Can you imagine him in low cuts?) Could we have a vomit emoticon ?

Oof I've finally caught up. I had to be strict with myself reading this thread while I watched it in case you gave the game away.

Strangely I felt a lot of the challenges tonight were quite easy. I use stretch fabric all the time and in fact the fabric Chinello used for the leggings I used to make a dress for my sister last year. My mother in law though who is an amazing sewer used stretch fabric for the first time last week and was terrified.

I'm gutted you think the over locker from Lidl was good. I hummed and haad about buying that before Christmas and talked myself out of it. Maybe it will come back round again.

It's definately Chinelo to win for me.

Sorry, Sunny

I don't even have a Lidl near me, had to send my brother on a mission to get it. I'd been hankering after an overlocker for ages and couldn't justify it unless it was cheap(ish).

Lambstales Patrick said Mary prefers her leggings more like Simon Cowell (ie that's why she didn't like the low rise ones).

Thank goodness for that, I am so relievied that there wasn't some low cut revolution on the way.

Chinelo is amazing. Though my ears do cringe at her earrings. She looks gorgeous in them, I just can't get past the weight and how they must feel!

I think the wearability issue is similar to edibility on Bake-Off. I have rarely thought 'ooh, I really fancy a vegan flourless genovese sponge right now', but when I see them making stuff I can see it's the set of skills they're testing and I get quite into it.

I like Heather very much, because she seems quite happy to play along with whatever it is they're asking.

I actually looked at Claudia this week and thought "Oh, she's pregnant again, how nice!". Is she not? If not then it was indeed a very unflattering top...

My guess for Top Three are Chinelo, Heather and Lynda. Chinelo really shines when not being confined to a pattern. The only reason the leotard won the alteration challenge is because it was such a huge change.

Chinelo's wrap dress was stunning.

I too hankered after that overlocker in Lidl and decided against in the end as I wasn't sure what to do with it, know I do I am kicking myself, but they do sometimes get more stock in so I'll be watching the newsletter!

I bought a mitre saw there instead

Caught a glimpse of some toddler dungarees for next week in pale blue corduroy..........I have a pattern for toddler dungarees and a swatch of pale blue corduroy sitting in my cupboard! Bring it on!

I've been naughty today and bought a new sewing machine. Its all the Great Ruddy Sewing Bee's fault

Oh Wow SunnyL! Have fun with it!

Yay! What kind is it, SunnyL?

I've decided to upgrade to an intermediate machine. I got a Elna machine 2 years ago just to see if I might like sewing from time to time. I wasn't to know then how much sewing would take over my life . so I'm going for a mid range Brother machine that is computerised and has automatic button holes. My old machine had 4 step button holes which was such a pain I avoided making things with buttons. No excuses now!

Automatic buttonholes are AMAZING.

I just used a simple handcranked thing for decades, never got to grips with the electric beasts at school, then when dd was born I asked my mum and dad for an electric machine because I reckoned it would be handy to be able to do zigzag.
I had no idea there was such a thing as automatic buttonholes when it arrived - it blew my mind!

Have fun making shirts!

Oh dear, I'm off to the pictures tonight and it looks like it's going to be a cracker of an episode here
I shan't be able to catch up with this thread until I've watched it!

DD is really excited about this episode.

I've just left an absentee bid at our local antiques auction for an unfinished Victorian patchwork. (Hexagons, all done in striped cottons, really nicely arranged. Datable from paper that are left in some of the edge pieces.)
Wish me luck. If get it I'm going to finish it.

Oh, do hope you do get it Tunip.

I used to do a lot of patchwork but haven't for ages. And needlepoint too - very therapeutic!

I've had an absolute 'mare of a day. I've just told DH I'll be watching this in bed.

Oh no Iklboo, what happened?

Nothing major Turnip (and NOTHING compared to a lot of people on here). Just an accumulation of lots of little things going wrong - no sleep, rubbish caseload at work, back & hip pain, late trains etc. So I'm flouncing off snuggling in bed for a bit of the lovely Patrick & Sewing Bee until I am less grumpy.

But your kind words are already lifting the gloom .