Great British Sewing Bee 2020 part 2

[GrandAltogetherSo]

Hope I haven’t jumped the gun, but the old thread was getting quite full.

I’ve just been browsing the
www.bigcommunitysew.co.uk/
and trying to work out what sewing machines they were using at home. I always do that when a magazine has a feature about one if the contestants.
I think Therese has the same Juki machine as I have and she’s also got the mini quilter too. Lucky lass.

Also, do you think that maybe either Therese or that slightly annoying bloke Peter might have won this year as they also have Juliet, the winner from the last series in this group?

Peter is a bit of a darling so I can't see him going next. Matt's coat is on a shoogly peg though. Shame, as I prefer Matt to Peter.

Next week looks good and Peter is wearing another strange garment.

I love re-using stuff but those bags??

Next week looks bizarre. The made to measure looks like another transformation challenge!

Wonder what Peter will be wearing ...

Those bags are giving me flashbacks of when my parents would travel to Lithuanian markets to buy us clothes. They would come back with massive bags like those filled with new/ nearly new clothes and you had to pretend to like them.

Presumably you didn't have to wear the bags though!

Wow Therese saved her own skin there.

SoupDragon sometimes bags would have made a better outfit than what was inside the bags.

😂😂

Lagging behind tonight, just caught up. Loved the corset history bit, especially the carvings.

Getting a bit bored of smutty inuendos now - boning etc., It's all a bit Carry on.

Loved Esme's dress.

Did anyone else like Clare's skirt last night. I've got some tartan fabric but I'm not sure there's enough to do that. I might have a go but a wooly skirt doesn't seem like a priority at the moment. I loved her shoes too.

Perhaps next week will be like this from RuPaul's drag race

I loved Claire's shoes Captain.

My mouth practically watered at the sight of them.

I loved Claire's shoes too.

Actually I love her style full stop - it always makes me think that once she's finished the sewing challenge she's going to pop down and do a shift code-breaking at Bletchley Park.

These are slightly reminiscent of Clare’s shoes, I thought . Don’t know if hers were perhaps vintage, though.

I wonder whether she also knits her splendid jumpers?

Those shoes are lovely @Halsall

And, yes, she knitted that jumper. I've just checked her Instagram.

Ha, I thought she might have! Could you point me in the direction of her Instagram, Captain?

Just found Clare on insta. She makes shoes! Well, she makes lots of different things. Clever lady, I think I am rooting for her to win.

It did make me giggle when Joe and Matt were giggling about the boning, and then realised they were being like school boys and giggled even more!

I loved Lizs sleep set. Hated the wincyette one. Fuggly. I wouldn't mind something like the one Therese made, well deserved to win. Just very classy looking.
Sad Ali went, but she did keep running out of time. I think she did the same last week?
I hate silky fabrics, they get all rucked up. Much prefer a nice cotton number. I have some old duvets I want to turn into pj bottoms. I think I shall do that today.

@Halsall it's clare.bradders

Thanks longtom. Maybe she made those shoes, then? She's clearly a massively talented woman. Respect.

Claire quietly gets on with it. I'm rooting for her.

It's Clare but my auto correct insists on Claire.

I'd like her to win, too.

I wish they wouldn't do stupid challenges like the laundry bag one. It's just stupid and bears no relationship to anything anyone would ever want to do out in the real world.