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?

DebbieofM - is that your DD with a sepia tint to the pic? If so, that is a wonderful pic and she looks adorable and is doing the serious face that victorians used to do in pics! Love the little outfit

Conveniently enough the serious face that Victorians used to do in pics and the "Mum, will you just STOP IT ALREADY with the photographs?" face that my children do all the time are more-or-less indistinguishable once a sepia tint is applied...

That's so cool, Debbie, what a wee sweetie

Watched tonight on catch up and teared up when Linda was talking about her mum, so emotional. Cried at the end too when David left would have cried regardless of who left lol. Don't remember feeling like this watching last year's show. This lot of contestants seem to have gelled really well. Lovely to see.

Love the pic - very authentic look!

I really enjoyed last nights and also welled up when Lynda was talking about her mam.

Thought the top Chinello had on last night was badly made and didn't fit right at all, like the ones I used to make when I was little for my dolls.

Oldraver - I started secondary school in '76 too. [irrelevant]

How much am I loving The mighty monk seal blog it's nearly as good as Tom and Lorenzo's coverage of Project Runway.

LovesASarcyBlogTiggaxx

I love the mighty monk blog but I'd forgotten about it since the end of GBBO.

FIVE minutes to go and it's semi final!

Signing in.. (and i started Secondary school in '75, hence hand machine experience)

I really don't think Tamara's is going to work well...

I thought Chinelo would be finished in half an hour and be sat having a cup of tea.

Chinelo knows that everyone is expecting her to walk this, so I think she's feeling under extra pressure.

I'd love to try draping, but I'd need to (a) invest in a mannequin, (b) have somewhere to put a mannequin and (c) add a LOT of padding (or have the time, energy and friends to make a duct tape dummy, but then (b) still applies).

They really do pick some bogging fabric don't they?

So presumably they're not putting fastenings of any sort on - just pinning the dress to the mannequin? Or not?

If Lynda beats Chinelo here then Chinelo will be properly hacked off...

I do like Lynda's.. it looks classy. But Tamara's ... no, but maybe I find the pattern a bit prissy.

Chinelo does have the problem that Patrick and she have quite different taste (I've noticed that in other weeks, too).

Oh, my. There's a turn-up for the books.

I think Tamara's is a Liberty print. It would make a nice shirt but not a dress, agreed.

Lynda's looked v elegant.

Whereas I think Patrick and Lynda are very much on the same wavelength, taste-wise.

I'm more than surprised Chinelo didn't win the non pattern dress challenge.
Linda's dress was nicer though.

Puff sleeves are the easy (cheating?) option here.