Great British Sewing Bee...

[BertrandRussell]

Does anyone know when it’s on?

You are very welcome fleas.

A sprinkling of Monkseal enlivens every TV dish . . .

I bloomin love monkseal.

Dd (7) was shocked I Wasn't a fan of Joes rainbow jacket

It's so nice to have this back. Jury's still out on Joe IMO. He's not Claudia, is he? And I thought his approach was a bit heavy on scripted 'funniness' rather than spontaneous humour. But it was only Week One.

LOVED Juliet's yellow and polka-dot dress. She's very very talented. I'm not liking your architect woman much; she's so TENSE and IMO a bit humourless.

we don't often see brilliant older women like Esme on our screens This is so true and it's a joy to watch her.

I cannot sew to save my life but I LOVE fabric. I have little stashes that I get out and feel every now and again like a grown up version of Linus' blanket. I fall in to the first part of this meme. I would be in the haberdashery supplies cupboards all of the time. Let someone else sew.

fourq you and me both 😂

Must actually MAKE something, must actually MAKE something

I've just ordered myself a bunch of Liberty lawn pieces in gorgeous floral designs and colours. Now I need to think of what I'm going to do with them...

I cannot sew to save my life but I LOVE fabric. I have little stashes that I get out and feel every now and again like a grown up version of Linus' blanket. I fall in to the first part of this meme. I would be in the haberdashery supplies cupboards all of the time. Let someone else sew.

I know what you mean fourq - I'm exactly the same. I love fabric and fabric shops and I have various drops and bits and bobs draped about the place, and table cloths (hemmed with iron on hemming web of course).

I am absolutely shit at sewing and knitting too apart from the basic plain stitch and squares. So I knitted a bedspread (took me years) and sewed it together, but all the sewing has come apart! I couldn't even manage that!

Phew, don’t feel as though I have to sit in the corner now, I love fabric as well & can happily while a hours in a haberdashery shop, but have absolutely no talent whatsoever in either sewing or knitting, when I did try to have a go at knitting the only thing I made was a scarf that was about 12foot long , as I had no idea how to cast off was also full of holes as I kept dropping stitches & couldn’t figure out how to pick them up.

I cannot sew to save my life but I LOVE fabric. I have little stashes that I get out and feel every now and again like a grown up version of Linus' blanket. I fall in to the first part of this meme. I would be in the haberdashery supplies cupboards all of the time. Let someone else sew.

Oh - thank God!

I thought it was just me!

You are my people! My DM (god bless her, she died a long time ago) was sooooooo talented, never realised until it's too late. There was nothing she couldn't do... my DDs (now adult) got christened in a beautiful dress she smocked. Smocking is hard!

I've done cross stitch, patchwork, made my own clothes, but I don't have her patience or flair. I wish I had. I haven't done anything for years but I love Sewing Bee. It reminds me of my Mum.

Fabric shops worldwide are rubbing their hands in glee at us.

Rousette I think that’s why I like it so much, my late DM was very talented as well, she made all my clothes when I was a little girl she used to unpick an old dress & use it as a pattern I was the best dressed child on the street, she was a fabulous knitter as well I still have the beautiful shawl she knitted for my dd baptism, which we used when dgd was baptised, she made curtains upholstered old furniture.
She did try to teach me, sadly to no avail I just couldn’t grasp it.

dontcallmelen yes! Forgot the knitting and crochet too! And I have a shawl. My DM (as yours I bet) made curtains, tried upholstery etc. I've never really had it, I tried, but I was never good at any of it!

I’m crap at knitting but getting the hang of sewing. Machines are much easier to use now!

Rousette I’m the same I tried, but am just rubbish.
My DM did teach me to paint & wallpaper, which I am good at so at least all was not lost😃

I made most of my own clothes as a teen and in my early 20's, when I had a Saturday job in a haberdashery but am trying to get back to it now (years later). I've got a massive fabric stash not lessened by a few trips to Japan which is PARADISE for fabric nuts there's a whole fabric district in Tokyo fgs

I'm also a knitter, patchworker and to a lesser extent, crocheter. Always have to be making something.

I sewed my own clothes as a teenager and adult in the 70s and through the 80s. I stopped some time in the 90s because my workload got heavier (teacher) and clothes got much cheaper. I started again after watching the first series of GBSB as I realised I was losing my skills. I hardly buy anything ready made now - only underwear and a coat and I intend to rectify both of those.

... when I did try to have a go at knitting the only thing I made was a scarf that was about 12 foot long , as I had no idea how to cast off was also full of holes as I kept dropping stitches & couldn’t figure out how to pick them up.

That made me roar with laughter and yes, I was drinking a cup of coffee at the time so nearly choked lol!

I love making full stop. Knitting, crochet, silk painting, sewing, curtains, clothes, bags, upcycling furniture, fixing stuff etc etc THere are a number of us within my family that are like this and several have or had their own little business. All our days jobs have been straight and narrow or even engineering/chemistry etc so its been a creative outlet

Back when I was late teens/early twenties when dinosaurs roamed the earth, loads of my friends sewed. Clothes were expensive and it was far cheaper to borrow a pattern from someone and knock something up. I was a lot thinner then and do remember making a peacock blue slub silk fitted dress with a frill down the front I wore clubbing! I bought the fabric off a market stall and borrowed the pattern.
That was my peak. It was all downhill from then on!

In the past people have genuinely tried to help me sew and knit, but there's something that doesn't compute with me - the brain and the hands won't work together.

At school back in ye olden days, our first project was a craft apron which was basically a piece of gingham folded up so you had a huge pocket the width of the apron. It was a half apron by the way - no top bit.

It took me two years, I swear to God. I managed one day to actually sew said apron to my school skirt. I was sewing on my lap, and went right through, so when I stood up the apron was attached to me.

We had to go round the outside of the apron with blanket stitch. I was very proud of myself when I'd finished only to be told by the teacher it was upside down. So the flat thread bit that goes along the edge was at the top of the stitch so it made a line about a centimetre away from the edge.

In the end they just gave up on me and I used to get sent out to the shops next door to the school to get the ingredients for the cookery class.

We had girls who were making overcoats - proper coats in thick outdoor fabric, lined and everything. Amazing.

Fontella yy back in ye old days, the half apron with the pocket it never actually got finished, I kept breaking the leg thingy off the sewing machine & was banned from using the sewing machines, was demoted to sweeping & tidying up.

... when I did try to have a go at knitting the only thing I made was a scarf that was about 12 foot long , as I had no idea how to cast off was also full of holes as I kept dropping stitches & couldn’t figure out how to pick them up.

Don't worry about the holes.

That's LACE that is.

Fontella hilarious on the stitching apron to yourself

Our 'needlework' teacher was a sadist. I remember her distinctly. Mrs Binks. She spent her life getting me to unpick everything. Our first project that I remember was a reversible swimming coat thing. Towelling on one side, cotton on the other. It was the stuff of nightmares for years and it's a wonder I ever persisted in sewing, I think that must've been down to my Mum.