Sewing Bee! Mannequins at the ready!

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It's back on Thursday! here. No details of contestants yet. How many men this time? Any?

Ten sewers, six weeks, can't wait!

(Can't think of another word for sewers at the moment, wish I could!)

Aww, nice lady. But right decision.

Awww, do think she was a bit out of her depth

I'm a sucker for spots!

Annie seems lovely.

Patrick is now off to Downton for his screen test

Garment of the weekd??!

Oh he would be great on downtown wouldn't he

Oooh - child's waistcoat. I made one of those out of a Primark net curtain and no pattern!

He looks the part doesn't he Caulk !

I like that they don't do GBBO-style dramatics on this. It's very gentle, isn't it?

Yes BOF, it is just plain nice. And everyone always seems to like each other and genuinely sad when one of them leaves.

I loved it. Standard seems v high. Wish Patrick would grow his beard back. He's just that bit less perfect looking without it imo. Also didn't get the raving over the pink tutu. The bit of shirt left in it seemed wonky to me but obviously not. Army Man my favourite so far. Have nicknamed him Action Man. I thought Claudia was a bit too shouty at times.

Not convinced by the tutu...

Blatant place mark....

Loves the colourful bird print dress. Am tracking down fabric now for a dungaree making for DD.

The tutu was a rubbish "alteration"

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Sorry about that. DC v excited since Amanda is a teacher at their school, lots of squealing when they saw their friends.

Agreeabout rubbish tutu, thought some of the other skirts were fab though. I thinkit's between army man and older lady based on this week.

I think younger dyed red haired woman could be one to watch.

I loved it. Standard seems v high

Do you think? I'm always amazed by just how inexperienced a lot of them seem to be.

ToBee I suppose it's relative. I can't sew to save my life, so it looks very high to me :)

In the initial blurb I thought Alex was going to have a problem when she said she was perfectionist and would keep redoing things till she got them right. As she doesn't have time to do that with the Sewing Bee I thought she was bound to struggle, and so it proved.

Wrt the inexperience, I think we need to bear in mind it's edited to provide entertainment and more drama is produced by struggles than calm competence. I think the time constraints make a difference too and also the fact that they may be used to making the same sort of things at home.

Last year I think the first two men to go had been obviously picked just because they were men for the sake of good telly or a better mix of people, and they really weren't up to standard. This year you could perhaps say the same again of some (most?) of the men, but obviously Action Man is there on merit and a real contender. I'd be surprised if he actually won though - you need real design flair to do that and it's not been evidenced so far.

I not sure last year's winner showed design flair until that final gown though.

Although I would agree he is being set up having "military precision". Being his main skill.