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[Cocolapew]

14th April

Raph at least looked like he does gymnastics, or certainly has done gymnastics fairly regularly in the past. Certainly I (with my complete lack of gymnastics in c. 30 years) couldn't have faked the tumbling.

And I imagine Adam has to plays the piano a bit - though possibly more as part of the job than as a pure hobby.

I can certainly see that you would end up taking something you do maybe once a month and talking it up as more of a regular hobby to meet the producers requirements.

My hobbies are lying on the sofa eating jelly and sprinkles.

Well I fell asleep just after the horrendous short remake challenge. This tells me that either I am very old or that the show was very boring! Sad to see that it was Jean who went though.

This is where the people whose interesting hobby is intrinsically linked to sewing like am drammers, cos players, vintage enthusiasts or drag queens have a theoretical advantage over the others.

Which comes back to the question of why there haven't been more cosplayers/Larpers. I do wonder if the challenges are just too boring given cosplayers incorporate make up, performance and the more behind their costumes.. .

@Roussette

Mr. Vicar's was really boring, I think he'd added the black belt but it was not on the waist and it showed.

Ah! Yes - I remember that one now.

Thank you

I see Patrick is going to be on Celebrity MasterChef.

Mooncatcher - Exactly!

@Cocolapew

My hobbies are lying on the sofa eating jelly and sprinkles.

I think we could probably all do that competitively Coco.

There's another programme in there . . .

@SchadenfreudePersonified

I see Patrick is going to be on Celebrity MasterChef.

So is Johannes, I hope they don’t waste them by having them on the same episode!

@SoupDragon

Is Adeena even smaller than Esme?

She is minute isn’t she, I wondered why she was standing on a stool (health and safety klaxon alert) then saw her standing next to another sewer and she looked about half their height.

I don’t like the ones who panic, it’s bad enough when they say “oh no, five minutes to sew on three buttons and make a padded hanger for my dress” but when they start panicking five minutes in I think they are doing it for effect.

I didn’t know you could sew buttons on with a sewing machine ! I mean, how dim does that make me sound, let me rephrase, of course I realised some years ago that industrial sewing machines are used to sew buttons on commercially produced garments*, but goodness me (tinkly laugh) I didn’t know domestic machines could sew buttons on as well.

(* actually never thought about it before )

Slinks to dunces corner to practice threading needles.

I didn’t know you could sew buttons on with a sewing machine ! I mean, how dim does that make me sound, let me rephrase, of course I realised some years ago that industrial sewing machines are used to sew buttons on commercially produced garments, but goodness me (tinkly laugh) I didn’t know domestic machines could sew buttons on as well.*
I think by the time you had sorted out the machine and then tidied the ends it would be easier to do them by hand.

Maybe the initial faff is worth it if you've got a dozen to do under time pressure?

I really couldn’t understand Adeena’s dress at the end. That open panel looked like it was unfinished to me.

So is Johannes, I hope they don’t waste them by having them on the same episode!

Unless that episode is the final...

@JemimaTab

I really couldn’t understand Adeena’s dress at the end. That open panel looked like it was unfinished to me.

It looked to me like it should have been lined in either a colour or material that was the inverse pattern. I think it was lined in cream (which was the second colour in the material) but it did just look like the inside. I was hoping we'd see it fastened up as well.

If Adam keeps doing that nervous giggle at the end of every sentence, I will mute him.

Adeena's dress was a lovely idea but needed a couple more buttons.

I thought some might have been improved by not having buttons all the way down to be honest. I have two button front dresses and have pinged the bottom few buttons off both more than once by crossing my legs without enough caution!

I’m just catching up.

I won’t bang on and on.

I think Julie was unlucky. I know she only had a top but my tops are the lengths of Farie’s ‘dress’. Neither were dresses. What Julie made was better by a country mile. Farie’s looked a state.

I think Farie dodged a bullet and Julie was proper robbed.

I like Damien’s, Adeena’s and Adam’s frocks. The right decision was made for garment of the week.

There were some frights though.

The beauty of lawratu’s straps was spoiled by the creases around the belly and Lulu. It was tight and sexy but for me it looked pull-y around the front.

The right decision was made but I think Farie, bless her, is on a shoogly peg.

And paper sack shorts is more my thing. And I’d still look like a sack of spuds.

@PolkadotsAndMoonbeams

I’m not fond of the giggle either. It took me a minute to place it.

Duncan Norvelle did summat similarly annoying.

It just seems too affected. You are a fabulous sewing person - no nervous giggles necessary.

I would avoid button down dresses for that reason. Blouses are bad enough for suddenly realising you are showing more than you wanted. Also buttons come off and break in the washing machine, and ironing around buttons is a fangle

I liked Adeena’s dress a lot, but the fabric did my head in. It possible that it was a bit less migraine inducing IRL - some patterns just don’t work through the telly.

Adam’s giggle makes him difficult to love but I don’t think it’s deliberate - I think it’s a nervous tic.

Ive got a couple of lovely sundresses from FatFace, button down to the waist, full skirt, pockets! However I had to get the placket sewn down as my seat belt would always catch on the top buttons while I was driving and pop them open...

I’m a bit lot of a chubstrel.

Anything with buttons down the front is a no. Blouses, shirts, skirts, dresses, whatever.

My lurks take the brief glimpse of daylight as a chance to escape. And unless it is at least two sizes too big and sack shaped, I always get that ‘pulled’ look.