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.

@Snufkinhastherightidea it makes me want to learn to sew! It's inspiring. I'm sure I'd be terrible at it in reality.

What happens to the Sewing Bee winners? Do they find fame and fortune in the same way that the Bake Off winners do, or not?

I love it. Find it very therapeutic and impressed by the creativity of many of the sewers.

Quite a few have started working in the sewing industry www.thesewingdirectory.co.uk/former-sewing-bee-contestants/

@Innocenta i have tried 🤣 so I know for a fact that I can’t sew. I made my son a felt rabbit a few years ago and he cried whenever he saw it. It looked like it was a possessed demon rabbit !!

Only just caught up. Have to say I quite took to Cristian this well (if we're going on personality on who we like to succeed 😉).

Up to now I think I'd blurred him in with the bloke who only started sewing last week, who I found too competitive and over confident about his ability. The clips of Cristian showed him to be very kind and thoughtful.

Christian has been helping Gill to renovate two sofas.
www.instagram.com/p/CeX3qJuK0fI/

I like Cristian more and more each week!

@CaptainMyCaptain That's lovely.
As someone who can just about sew in a button and hem, I am in awe of sewers and what they can achieve. I am particularly in awe of Gill.

Predicting Christian may have issues with the bra challenge tonight (but possibly less of one with the men's PJs).

Thinking back, I'm not sure the men have had particular issues with bras when they've done them before. I mean, I wear them all the time but there is very little chance of me making one without stuffing it up! 😂😂 I know Gill has had no issues with anything else but I wonder if small pieces of slippery fabric might be problematic for her.

they are small * and fiddly but it's still just following a pattern.

• at least I hear some are small.

I made a bra in a bra-making workshop. It's about following instructions and sewing neat accurate seams. I'm not sure having breasts helped much.

Evening all

Lace underwear. Scratchy stuff

I was thinking the same. Not great for underwear!

Why does Esme think Patrick is an underwear expert 🤔 What does happen at the show wrap party...?

This challenge is going to be really hard. I would really struggle with all the tiny pieces!

Loving this history

That was an interesting and unexpected piece of history

Ludittes and everything 🤣

I started learning how to make bobbin lace once at night school and it’s bloody hard. I didn’t last long!

Well, none of these little lace flimsies would hoik my norks up (sorry, TMI)

We have local monuments to Luddites. Says much about the area

@littlbrowndog depends on the lace. I have some really comfortable lace knickers

Do you think it's harder to make small or big bras??

Not ones of these brass fits the model