Great British Sewing Bee...

[BertrandRussell]

Does anyone know when it’s on?

Schaden 😂 at lace, dm said it was an abomination & I should give it up before I strangled myself with length & holes.

melen

I've found my people. Juliet's jumpsuit was fabulous, the colour looked amazing on the model

I love this programme, though I can't sew for toffee. This is what I achieved:- horrid yellow dirhdle skirt, which included a run and fell seam, in top year of junior school, all hand made; cookery apron when I was 14, all straight sewing, on machine - took a term to do it; a mauve dress made at home in my late teens. I had no idea about what fabric to use, and although I finished it, it was crap.I can do basic repairs- in my early teens very tight trousers were in. The zips used to fail quite often under the strain, but I did manage to insert replacements by hand

I am not a bad knitter though.

@northernstars a quick heads up for anyone else who missed it, the first episode is repeated today (Saturday) at 7pm on BBC2.

• not teens, I meant early twenties

I get these mad notions from time to time that I can sew. Currently I'm trying to lengthen a silk cocktail dress from just above the knee to just below it. This involves disguising the old hem with gazillions of tiny beads harvested from another damaged dress.

It could take years. It almost certainly won't go well.

I did as a teenager once make my entire holiday wardrobe - including seersucker bikini and matching sarong. It was mainly 'forties style dresses as I recall, for some reason in the seventies I thought this was my look. I'm quite amazed at myself thinking back, I wouldn't attempt it now.

It could take years. It almost certainly won't go well

😂😂

@Myimaginarycathasfleas thanks a million - have set to record

You have all taken me on a trip down memory lane! My mum taught me to knit (just plain and purl) and I used to sit under the kitchen table listening to Two Way Family Favourites on the radio knitting scarves that got wider and wider as they got longer . I did manage to knit a hooded jumper with an integral hand muff when I was about 20 and it was only very slightly skew-whiff. [proud]

In 1st year at secondary school I made a bright orange toweling beach poncho trimmed with a cream fringe. We had a fashion show for parents I remember. Unfortunately the school was a bit short sighted and "academic"; the brightest of us did Latin, the next brightest German and then Domestic Science was for the non academic girls so I never learnt how to make stuff.

I have tried crochet recently but I just cannot get the hang of it.

I am impressed with those of you who make lots of your own clothes. I made a sewing bag at school. And a corduroy pinafore dress. It was a painfully slow process. The pinafore dress was wearable at least.

OMG fourquennelles you have just jogged a memory. I posted upthread about my beach coat thing we had to make in sewing and I'd completely forgotten I was chosen to model it at a show for parents. It was absolutely excrutiating as I was painfully shy!

It could take years. It almost certainly won't go well.

It does sound a very ambitious project . . .

. . . I speak as someone who moved into a house, hung curtains at the windows and pinned them to length ready to sew, and then was unable to remove the rusted-in pins when we moved again five years later . . .

four - I can't crochet, either - I can knit anything, but could never master even the basics of crochet.

I used to be a knitter too Schaden.

I still have the pattern for that Sunday Times wheatsheaf jumper designed by the knitting Bishop. The jumper has long since gone. Actually....

This is my first time watching Sewing Bee (we were abroad during the other series) and I enjoyed the first episode. I'm watching the first series on one of the Sky channels at the moment. I hadn't realised Tilly from Tilly and the Buttons came from GBSB. She wasn't that good on the show.

I love sewing and do a lot for the home and small pieces of clothing. I am just getting into bag making. My fabric stash is rather ridiculous as is my sewing machine collection.

. . . I speak as someone who moved into a house, hung curtains at the windows and pinned them to length ready to sew, and then was unable to remove the rusted-in pins when we moved again five years later . . .

Hahaha!

This thread is too funny.

I once stapled the hem on some trousers, as I couldn’t find my one & only needle, lasted quite a while not as long as Schadens curtains though

Hello! Finally watched this on catch up. Lovely start to the series and really liked some of the clothes. Would wear some of the wiggle dresses, the halterneck denim dress and some of the jumpsuits too! Sadly can't sew (well only emergency repairs to school uniform etc) so can't make any of them but very impressed by the contestants. Liked Joe too and agree, bit like GBBO used to be. Lovely way to while away an hour today

Staples are a lifeline, aren't they melen?

I don’t sew but love this programme. Nice, gentle, kind, entertaining and with such talented people 😊

We too had to make a gingham apron, but ours had a much smaller pocket, a top bit and our name embroidered on the front. Clearly a superior kind of apron. (I finished mine quickly so I could go on to projevt 2, a sleeveless blouse.

At the age of 9, school sewing was making a dress (yep, a whole dress to fit me) by HAND. With French seams throughout (double the sewing) and a zip. I bet today's nine year olds wouldn't manage that.

Staples are a lifeline, aren't they melen?

Too right, and much less treacherous than safety pins, which are prone to unhook themselves and cause injury and embarrassment, the bastards.

Lauren Guthrie from Guthrie and Ghani was on the first series with Tilly Walnes. I think running a successful company like they both do now requires a different skill set from winning GBSB.

French seams! Ooh la la!