Sewing Bee is back

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Wednesday 24th May at 9pm 🥳

My mum used to make me clothing from anything we had , I had curtain trousers as a child and knitted jumpers. I loved them so much until I was a teen and insisted on branded things from shops.

‘Sewist’ has been around on blogs and Instagram for ages. Must be at least a decade. I used to follow a lot of sewing blogs and they all called themselves that.

I'll happily take Patrick off your hands in any suit, however ill fitting, and at any stage of facial hair.

Seconded.

He could wear one of my kaftans if he liked.

Ah. I'm not criticising Patrick. Or his physique.
Just his (lack of) style.
I think, @ArcaneWireless that you'd look great in any of those kaftan things that were the final challenge!

I so would my friend!

They are a bit of me!!!! 🥰

I know what you are saying re Patrick by the way. He is a sharp suit away from mangodliness.

Esma has it nailed. She is also the bobbins.

mangodliness indeed!
Esme is most definitely high grade bobbins.

oh god every time i have connipations about how my body has changed and how i can't clothe myself i think of her in a bright red shapeless dress, comfy shoes and a fabulous statement necklace and give myself a great big shake.

Agree that aside of sometimes not brilliantly fitted clothes, Patrick is an Adonis and not to be turned down. Plus he looks fab in a kilt. <swoon>

Patrick could wear anything (outfit made from a windbreaker?) and be OK with me. You can't hide the twinkly eyes. He often posts photos from his bike rides on Instagram but none of him in lycra.

I love both Patrick and Esme - her autobiography is brilliant! I loved her necklace this week (I confess I don't always) and would happily own one. Do you think they get Patrick to 'dress down' so that his sharp suits don't intimidate the sewers?

I think that's just the way Patrick dresses. When he did celeb masterchef he wore some pretty random casual outfits. I recall a yellow jumper featuring heavily.

it's not the outfits, it is the fit of the suits. He is supposed to be famous for owning or working in a fancy-schmancy company famed for tailoring. The least i expect is that he looks sharp

That's the point, @Brefugee - they're ill fitting.

Seconded. He could wear one of my kaftans if he liked. @ArcaneWireless

You two have no standards!

😂

True!

Both comments.

Patrick could wear anything

Or . . . noting? 😏😘

*nothing!

Bugger you, autocarrot.

EDIT BUTTON!! NOW!!!!!

A friend of mine who runs some tailors organisation in Savile Row told me that Patrick is not a tailor. He obviously knows lots about clothes, tailoring and sewing though

Yes, I believe he had a career in finance or similar first of all, and then bought into a Savile Row tailor as a second career.

I think he did an engineering degree originally.

He has had quite a varied career. From Wiki:

Grant completed a degree in material sciences at the University of Leeds in 1994.[18] He chose an engineering degree because of "a fascination with how things are made".[19] His course included a year spent at the University of Orleans.[20]
Following graduation, Grant relocated to the United States where he worked as a ski instructor,[11] as a counsellor at a summer camp in Santa Cruz, California, as a nanny, a landscape gardener, and a model agent.[21] He returned to Britain in 1995 to take up a career in marketing, first at cable-makers BICC and Corning, before moving to optical components manufacturer Bookham Technology in 2000.[22] From 2004, Grant studied for a MBA degree, funded by Bookham, at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where he was a member of New College.[23] His thesis, completed in October 2005, focused on the regeneration of luxury fashion brands such as Burberry, and was titled "Is Burberry's formula for brand revitalisation replicable?".[3]

I was about to say that I was reading about someone else who started off with a fascination with how things worked/were made and then I realised it was a character in a novel and not actual real life.

I love Patrick. I'll have to look more closely at his suits because I find him so attractive that I haven't noticed things like clothes. I'm such a middle-aged cliche.

I once met Patrick in his savile row tailor's shop when I went in to get something for my husband. At the time I remember fancying him on sight and he had this warm energy, and then a few years later remembered him when he popped up on tv. Which is highly unusual because I rarely remember things/people. Some people just have charisma, and he does!

Patrick is extremely easy on the eye but I have to say that his suits recently haven’t been very pleasing. The trousers seem a tad too short and the jackets too big.

If anyone hasn’t seen the very interesting programme he made about the uniforms for the Coronation, he appears in some rather….interesting casual-wear in that. Not to mention his full-length belted black raincoat + helmet for cycling. It’s still available on iplayer….just saying 🤭

Unfortunately, I'm not able to watch this as I don't have a TV license, but I remember it fondly when I had one years ago. Is there a chance of watching this on a streaming site or alternative? Also, The Pottery Throwdown was a fave of mine too, but missed all the subsequent series' after S2.