Great British Sewing Bee 2020

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Returns Bbc1 22nd April 9pm

Nothing so nice about Alex as his manner of going. Very gracious

But the front is not matched!!!

Tough love?!

Oh fgs, really not difficult to pattern match with those pockets.
Really thought the pintuck shirt shoulda won

Why dont they mind that the pattern doesn't match on the front of that shirt ? (Garment of the week)

See you all next week. Stay well

Yes the models look like they're not very comfortable

The pockets on Banker's shirt were amazingly done

I enjoyed that. See you next week.

The right person went

Does anyone know where the Venice fabric in the first round was from?

Right decision. Look forward to next week - turning into my Lockdown highlight of the week

I think pintuck should have won too, but pockets were good on winner

I think that pin tuck shirt should have been GotW- banker's shirt's front didn't patter match which was quite distracting

Some of those beach shirts were brilliant, I'm late here but I enjoyed it tonight.

Highlight of my week too!

Sewing Bee is such a wonderful distraction from RL!
See y'all next next week..

I can find a version with a black background, @Binglebong, but not the white.....

See you next week.

Ooh thanks Halsall, good price too!

Question for the actual sewers - how hard is it to do what they're doing? Not the complicated pattern matching but sewing the basic shapes? When I watch Bake Off, I generally think I could cook the basic sponge etc. but it's the decoration that makes it impressive. Is it the same here - most people could follow the basic pattern, but the real technique is in the pattern matching and invisible zips?

There are YouTube videos that explain the techniques like invisible zips - I don't think they were invented when I was at school. Pattern matching takes patience and extra fabric. I find certain points on the corresponding pattern pieces, like both side seams, and make sure they match. Probably easier to do than explain in words.

Yes I think so. There is a definite skill in being able to read a pattern and operate a machine in the different ways they do. Extras like collars, pockets, pattern matching and hand sewing are the added extras that separate good from very very good.

Basic pattern isn't too hard. Making it fit is.

Some stuff you just need to be shown (well I do) Full bust adjustment for example - I have read and watched videos and read and only really understood it after a thrown away line at a course - 7 words changed my whole way of fitting

Stretch fabric dance man is because dance clothes are normally stretch - I massively struggled making a dance dress for DD last year as the fabric she wanted was woven - It took days to get my head around it!!