Great British Sewing Bee...

[BertrandRussell]

Does anyone know when it’s on?

Yup staples, are a staple in my sewing kit.
French pleats frantically looks up dictionary for meaning, laying bear my total ignorance of sewing lingo

French seams...you sew the whole flipping thing on the right side, turn it inside out, trim the seams and sew them all over again. Hard work. (bur excellent, especially in flimsy fabrics)

Here endeth Fuzzy's sewing lesson part 1.

French seams.

Iirc, you stitch the garment with wrong sides together, so you have what looks like an outside seam, then turn garment inside out (so right sides together) and do the seam again, enclosing the raw edge. But I could be wrong, it's decades since I saw one.

The French just have to go that one step further and make it fancy, it's the same with French plaits.

You explained that so much better than me Fuzzy!

We have it covered between us catfleas.

Next week, bias binding. (Not really, I can't get the hang of doing bias binding)

😳 even mixed up pleats & seams wails, as clearly I’m a lost cause.
Gets special SB notebook out, licks pencil & writes correct terminology & method so can pretend that I know what others are on about.

Someone asked earlier if there were previous series to view , they have them here on Daily Motion. Am so enjoying the new series and agree with everyone re Joe , Patrick and Esme. Think it is a done deal who wins already though. Juliet to win but l love Riccardo he is so sweet
www.dailymotion.com/video/x130bwl

I love doing French seams and use them a lot on totes and cushions. Not a 100% sure but I think they are called English seams in France.

I bet today's nine year olds wouldn't manage that.

I can think of at least one 65 year old who couldn't manage that

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

Safety pins are the devil's implement fleas - and God knows you can't trust a paperclip even for the simplest of bra-strap repairs . . .

Fifty nine year old here who can’t either, shamefacedly sitting on dunces bench happily eating jelly babies , ta Schaden

Next week is children's clothes. In my heyday, it was all me me me. Couldn't cope with making my kids clothes. By the time I'd finished them they'd be off to Uni

I think I might have some half finished bootees in the cupboard, that I started before Ds was born , he is forty this year.

I am crying with laughter at this thread.

the 40 year old unfinished bootees ....

I think I might have some half finished bootees in the cupboard, that I started before Ds was born , he is forty this year

Sounds like repurposing is called for. Willy warmer perhaps?

😂 will give him a ring, see if he wants a willy warmer for his birthday Cats

Tell him he can have a pair of them, melen, one for best.

😂😂

Stop now! Just stop!

Can't help thinking if they were bootees for a newborn he might be offended by the size of the willy warmers.

Tell him he can have a pair of them, melen, one for best.

One on, one in the wash? 🤔

Making a gingham apron as your first school sewing project was obviously a thing! Same here - with initials embroidered on the pocket. I was 12. Over the two years before entering the GCSEs we would do one term sewing and one term cooking. I loved it.

My mum was a keen sewer and made so many clothes for me and herself as well as things such as curtains and stuff for church. She bought a Singer electric sewing machine in instalments in the early 80s which I inherited when she passed. Growing up I used to make my own stuff too and have photos of a party dress (ra-ra skirt and fitted scrappy top) I made with a friend at 16 under her supervision. A few years ago I made a whole story tent for an event at work and my last major project was lining the baskets in the nursery out of DHs old work shirts!

I don’t do much sewing now with a busy and stressful full time job and 5 yr old twins but I would be happy to try my hand at it again.

A question to keen sewers. How do you find using other sewing machines? I am so used to my 80s one I don’t know how I could handle using another one. How do they do it in the GBSB?

I think we can be all relieved that some of the people on this thread won't be doing the repurposing challenge on Sewing Bee...

This is the best of MN. I have laughed.