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.

She was joking with the ruler comment. She had a smile and an "almost laugh" in her voice.

it's the sort of thing I'd say before going and helping someone.

I don't think Patrick is being "handsy" in any kind of inappropriate way.

What's this about Patrick? Handsy?!

I haven’t noticed it maireas ✨

if I had noticed it, I’d have had a tiny bit of a daydream about it

He isn't. He's just adjusting a garment on the model to show where to fit is off or showing where something is matched perfectly. Stuff like that. Exactly what you'd expect TBH.

😉😍😋

I agree. He is being completely appropriate and gentlemanly. It's simply that in years gone by he always let Esme tweak or fiddle with clothes on the models in the made to measure, and this year he seems willing to do it himself.

Yes agree that it would have been better to show her then going to help after 'with a ruler!'

Either way, I really like her!

What explanation does "with a ruler" need? It's a shame they didn't discuss the walking foot which they were all using and most walking feet take an attachment bar that you can set to 1 or 2 inches and then you just use that to get your spacing. That's what most quilters use. Time is short, if some sewers need help then other contestants shouldn't be expected to lose time and focus to help them. It's usually the female sewers who are expected to abandon their own project for someone else's as well. Steve could have just said "can I just watch how you're doing this?" Steve learns, Brogan doesn't lose focus

On the other hand showing others how to do stuff can be useful if you want to make a career from teaching sewing. Jen on a previous sewing bee didn't win (I don't think) but helped others a lot and taught classes in my local sewing shop. She taught me to make welts and pockets and she also did a coat making workshop so showing she could teach was important for her

I don’t think for a minute that Brogan would lose focus.

And I don’t think folk - male or female - have abandoned their own projects to their own detriment.

I think that if others have stopped to help (and they have historically) it is usually shown. And on this occasion it wasn’t which is odd. Either that or the comment was all the ‘help’ given. 🤷‍♀️

The heart of all these programmes for me is the camaraderie between the contestants. It warms my heart to see people not wanting others to fail for lack of a wee bit of knowledge.

It isn’t about expectation to help for me. Just that if people do, it warms my cockles.

Do you mean Jen Hogg 2rebecca?

A colleague has been to a workshop and was plain trickit with it all and of course with Jen.

To be able to teach people a skill or knowledge to carry forward is such a gift. 😊

Didn't like gills dress at all I'm afraid! Anne's was lovely.

I meant Angela's dress although Annies was nice too!

Debra's dress was very similar to the first one she made and won garment of the week, wasn't too keen.

My mam has something in the cupboard that looks very like Annie’s dress.

She was a slip of a thing back in the day so no chance of me wearing it sadly.

Yes Jen Hogg

Well she is a secondary school teacher. That sounds almost reflexive.

Patrick isn’t ‘handsy’!
He’s a Savile row tailor FGS! He has to (shock horror) touch the model or his client in order to do this and is doing the same when he judges the garments.

He definitely adjusted the clothing on them a lot last season too. I love having garments fitted to me (does not happen often but my mum & dad used to make me clothes 😂) and felt that little frisson run through my scalp at the memory.

Yes, this! I kept wondering whether they’d been given a guide bar, and they must have been using a walking foot otherwise they’d have been in all sorts of bother trying to sew the layers.

As 2Rebecca says - the bar just attaches to the walking foot and you line it up with your first line of stitching, and then all subsequent ones, so they stay perfectly parallel. But we don’t see any of these technicalities (if they indeed happened) in the edit.

Evening.

Anyone else busily bawling their eyes out at Duncan the Dragon?

Evening all

Childrens clothes, this is always very sweet

Evening!

Ah, nice bit of Captain Pugwash - that takes me back 😂