Great British Sewing Bee...

[BertrandRussell]

Does anyone know when it’s on?

What shop in Exeter was that catfleas??

Well this is embarrassing. DH and I have been racking our addled brains. We both remember it (though it was about thirty odd years ago when we were living in the wilds of North Devon) and we know it was in Exeter, but we can't remember which shop. We THINK it might have been Dingles (now HoF).

We live nearish too, but in a different county these days!

Huntly come on in, you are among friends 🤫

I'm adding it to my ever growing stash and aim to use it to make gorgeous relaxed yet stylish clothes at some point between now and December 2027.

It worries me that you are rushing this - I think you should take your time and then you won't make any mistakes.

Well I'm not actually in Devon either! Hof in Exeter is a pile of poo. (I had an issue with them.

I have finished the church kneeler and can now move onto something a whole lot more creative. Hurrah! (I think it might be making little felt chickens for Easter - that's never going to be a sewing bee challenge, is it?)

Yy I would extend the deadline a little 2027, isn’t that far away really.
Remember I have forty year old unfinished bootees.

Oh my goodness, I remember the name Gordon Thodays! I didn’t grow up in Cambridge though... I wonder if there was one in Cheltenham? I certainly remember my mum taking me when I was very wee!

My proudest sewing project. In the late 70s there was a market in The Cut by Waterloo with a fabric stall. I bought this off cut and hand hemmed it. It has been on every beach holiday I have ever had as it makes a fabulous swim cover up. Those cack-handed stitches have lasted 40 years!

That's very impressive fourquenelles

• pretty fabric too!

That's really lovely four

At last Sewing Bee Tuesday as it should henceforth be known, is come at last. Hurrah!

I will feel a little lighter today, have a little more spring in my step and a swagger to my gait ... knowing that I have an hour of lovely telly and lusting after Patrick to look forward to.

Oh, I'm so glad I've found you all- brilliant thread! Can't wait for tonight's show.

*At last Sewing Bee Tuesday as it should henceforth be known8

Totally agree. We should get on to the publishers of calendars and diaries about this, and make sure it's included next year (along with all the little moons and stuff like "St Bardopholus' Day - Patron saint of fingernails, things lost under the sofa and those big black birds that look at you really hard when you're late for filling up the bird seed thing", and similar useful snippets).

OoH1 Hello BitofFun!

Welcome to the fray! (See my little pun there? HAHAHAHAHA!)

Bold fail above - apologies.

I am over-excited.

Just thought I'd share with with you all. I just sort of stumbled across it. I wasn't looking or anything ....

schady, no pattern, I shall draw my own chickens. (Makes a change from conclusions!) I'll let you know....

It's merely a public service, Font, no need to apologise 😂.

Saint Clare, Schadenfreude says google

but Wiki says the patron saint of tailors is St Homobonus. Couldn't make it up!

fontanella

Falderal

@FuzzyPuffling do you think you could make enough chicks 🐥 using this 😀

A MILE of thread? I think that would make a lot of chickens, Uatu.

Surely the patron saint of all things needlework is St Patrick?

Yep! That’s a mile of thread 😮. I found it in a box of sewing notions that I was given. I’ve managed to establish so far that it was most likely manufactured in the Coats Irish factory which closed in 2005-6 ish. Still trying to find out more.

I’m a little spooked at Gimp Lace Uatu
Yy patron saint, I love a patron saint my personal favourite is StJude patron saint of lost causes, which is me & my sewing ability.
Four lovely towelling thingy, great pattern yy The Cut was a great market.