Sewing Bee Thread Three!

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I'm not any better at sewing than poetry as it happens.

Anyways, line for Patrick starts behind me.

Mine too. She was astounding.

I missed this week and it didn’t record so I’ll have to catch up.

Claire who won last year does things on Instagram like turn a skirt in a shape she won't wear often into a skirt she will wear, or mend clothes etc (because she is trying to reduce/reuse by only buying new clothes in accordance with rationing allowances).

That would make so much more sense for the transformation challenge than some of the nonsense they do currently. Some of the materials are really quite unmanageable, and it irritates me when all they do essentially is drape material around the model to produce some sort of shapeless rubbish that no-one would wear in a million years.

Ironically it has seemd to me that the transformation challenge is the most wasteful in terms of materials used. For example when they had piles of wool jackets which all looked in perfect condition before they started ripping them up, can't remember what they were supposed to produce but they would have used very little of the material.The remnants would then have to be disposed of. I would have found it quite distressing but then I am a hoarder. Also what do they do with the items made? I could understand the contestants wanting their original garments from the other challenges but I bet no one actually would ever wear any of the transformations.. More rubbish generated.

It's absolutely wasteful as far as I can see! And hasn't inspired me to transform anything. In contrast, Claire's instagram has inspired me to buy a pattern to try amd turn a skirt I own into one I'll actually wear (admittedly it may go horribly wrong and be wasteful as the instructions seem incomprehensible to me... )

More rubbish generated.

I imagine they have a contract with a rag recycling company so not rubbish as such. It is a waste of a few useful garments but the flip side is that it can make people see old garments as a source of fabric and therefore re-use things they would otherwise have thrown away.

I think one of the contestants actually said that it was a waste of a good jacket in that episode. It would have been better to donate them to one of the charities that fits people out for job interviews etc.

Do the contestants get to keep the garments they have made on the show ?

They certainly keep some of them. Claire from last season posted on Instagram that her 1980s jacket lives at work (with pictures of her colleagues wearing it) and she made some changes to her children's dress to give it to someone.

On the swimming trunks episode I recognised some pairs that my boys have from Next and Boden . The shirts are often Boden or Charles Tyrwhitt, I wondered if they had factory settings

Can someone link to Claire's insta please?

www.instagram.com/clare.bradders/?hl=en

I did a link!!!!

Claire’s insta

Sorry - just seeing if I did it right.

Thank you Sheldon

@Zzelda

Claire who won last year does things on Instagram like turn a skirt in a shape she won't wear often into a skirt she will wear, or mend clothes etc (because she is trying to reduce/reuse by only buying new clothes in accordance with rationing allowances).

That would make so much more sense for the transformation challenge than some of the nonsense they do currently. Some of the materials are really quite unmanageable, and it irritates me when all they do essentially is drape material around the model to produce some sort of shapeless rubbish that no-one would wear in a million years.

The week that they effectively destroyed tweed jackets (good jackets) from charity shops to make . . . "things" probably few people would wear broke my heart.

They were good jackets! They were tweed! They just destroyed them. Someone could have worn them, as jackets, and now they re just rubbish!

Fair enough, taking some outdated dross, or a few scarves and making some updated dross or a scarf top, but these were good tweed jackets . . .

@cateycloggs

Ironically it has seemd to me that the transformation challenge is the most wasteful in terms of materials used. For example when they had piles of wool jackets which all looked in perfect condition before they started ripping them up, can't remember what they were supposed to produce but they would have used very little of the material.The remnants would then have to be disposed of. I would have found it quite distressing but then I am a hoarder. Also what do they do with the items made? I could understand the contestants wanting their original garments from the other challenges but I bet no one actually would ever wear any of the transformations.. More rubbish generated.

Sorry catey - I hadn't got as far as your post when I posted myself. We are twin should re: the good jackets!

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

I did a link!!!!

BRAVO!!!

Well done, that Wumman!

Someone could have worn them, as jackets

But would they?

Didn't they turn them into waistcoats? Rather than unwearable damienesque evening gowns.

[quote SheldonesqueTheBstard]www.instagram.com/clare.bradders/?hl=en[/quote]
Thank you so much for this link!

Claire has so much style.

She looks effortlessly classy, elegant, vintagey.

I aspire. 🥰

Sadly I am probably destined to be a barbapapa double but that’s ok too 😏

I am closer to a Weeble, myself.

😂

Twins nearly!

Violet Beauregarde after the chewing gum, myself. Maybe a tad less purple.