Sewing Bee is coming back!

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Wednesday 27th April, 9pm, BBC 1.

I'll be away for weeks 2&3 which is unfortunate.

I suppose Esme ought to know how to pronounce it.Hmmm...

Smocking is fancier isn't it? Rather then just the straight lines of shirring.

They use shirring elastic to make the gathers. Smocking is similar but with normal thread.

I thought it was called smocking?

Not necessarily, Mary Berry pronounces Baklava wrong!

I am struggling to tell the two nice young men apart until they speak.

Richie isn't very good, is he? Always lacking / wonky/ uneven

Smocking involves embroidering over gathers. It's not the same.

Thing is, I reckon he probably could sew under the right conditions. I started sewing in lock down but I am slow AF. I take an hour and a half to choose my bloody fabric.

I get that they have a choice to make re accomplished sewists and compelling TV but I just don't see the harm in giving contestants more time. I don't want to see rushed, pathetic attempts.

The Heller Approach

Oh dear, Steve,

I've spell it shirring but I say shearing.

Oh poor Steve. Bless him!

Yeah I think Richie is probably better with more time. Nice vest though - wonder if he knitted it?

He would probably do better in menswear.

Thank god everyone else agrees with me that it is NOT 'SHEARING'!!!!

Josie and Norah, the lovely ladies who ran the haberdashery shop where I had a Saturday job, and who had approximately 100 years of sewing experience between them, would have had an absolute fit listening to this. We sold a lot of shirring elastic and we knew how to pronounce it <gavel>

So Brogan won - no surprise. I suspect she runs one of them up every week.

I can't imagine that hammock fabric would be comfortable to wear

Macrame gives me the heebie jeebies.

It could be used for a coat though. Those are rarely comfortable.

Hammock wear would be very itchy

What happens to all these makes afterwards? Do they just get chucked?

Macramé isn’t my favourite thing but that panel on the front looks surprisingly OK.

I hope not! Do the contestants take all the items home?.

How can they criticise them for putting fringing on when they told them they had to do so

Cristian's jacket is really good.