Sewing Bee 2024 thread 2 - 5 down, 7 to go!

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The other thread was getting too slow (and we were running out of space faster than the thread on a bobbin)

I like Luke and Ailsa.
Suzy should have gone weeks ago.
Pascha to win.

i'm hoping for Luke, Ailsa and Pascha in the final, with Pascha to win.

Those three in the final. I don't really mind which one of them wins. They all have their strengths. Suzy's work is a mess.

There was no way they could keep Alex in after that pitiful made to measure.

I don't think anyone has said she deserved to stay have they? Just that they are disappointed.

Until this week, she was ahead of Luke with 1 GOTW. Looking at this chart, she was pretty much 3rd taking into account the times Suzy has been marked as "least favourite"

Shame about Alex she was my favourite. Suzy's fringe dress was a pigs ear and her transformation not much better whereas Alex dress was good and her nightwear brilliant. I thought the premise of the show was to be a good sewer which Suzy isn't!! Luke was made for this week.

If I can persuade DH away from the remote, DD(17) and I need to catch up with the last 2 episodes.

This band (Klangphonics) cropped up on my timeline this afternoon. They should have them doing a session at Sewing Bee next year:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/81C4n6K0jy4

So annoying that they kept Suzy in .

I think it's fashion house inspiration, next week.

That sounds a lot like diva week

If I had a week I could make my Nina Ricci ball dress though

Well , drag queens have to sew, or know someone who does.

Men’s bodies are basically such a different shape from women’s, the shoulders are broader in proportion to the head and neck, the hips are narrower, the legs usually longer in proportion to the torso. So even disregarding the need for extra room in the front of the pelvis 😉, most men would find it difficult to fit convincingly into garments made to female dimensions.

And also, the extravagant OTT outfits are a huge part of the act for many drag queens. Even if you did happen to fit perfectly into a lovely off the peg Ted Baker frock, it wouldn't fit the bill.

Here's a few outfits from an exhibition I happened to see while visiting the Back to Backs in Birmingham: you couldn't buy them in John Lewis...or even Bond Street. Extreme examples I grant you, but you get the point.

@Madcats I LOVE that. How fabulous - agree that the Klangphonics need to open the next series!

I agree. Alex has been in top 3 throughout all episodes while Suzy has been in bottom 3. In the last episode she was the last a and second last on 1st two challenges, while Alex did well, in the last round they both had made mistakes, so for me Suzy did bad on 2 rounds and did slightly better than Amex on 3rd whereas Alex did well on first 2 and bad on the 3rd challenge. She is the better sewer between tjosr two. I would have liked to see her go all the way to final not another tent made by Suzy.

There’s more detail on the BBC website.

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Oh Ethel, I looked! I didn't read much but the first picture is very funny. That's a nice dollop of cheerfulness breaking in for this afternoon.

Yes, I do like that picture. It made me smile when I first saw it and then again now.

The facial expressions are great.

Is it just me, or is there almost no fitting being done on the made to measure? It's hard to tell whether they just aren't showing us, or that too many of the finished garments are not fitted.

There is practically no fitting going on as far as I can see.

A big play is made of filming them measuring the models but in previous seasons you had them all doing FBA, swayback and all sorts of adjustments. Now the biggest deal is if they make a jumpsuit long enough in the body.

Partly I think this reflects current ready to wear, which has gone v boxy and oversized.

But I think it also goes back to them focussing on design and drama over skill.

Even boxy stuff needs to fit, though, or else it falls off the shoulders awkwardly or lifts at the front or gapes where it's meant to hang parallel to the body. So many of them seem to use it as an excuse to do no fitting at all.

Just seen that one of this week's challenges is inspired by Chanel. That HAS to involve some fitting, surely?!

Completely agree that the MTMs have had precious little fitting this year.

I'd hope so, but it's normally "a modern take" on it, so they'll use that as a reason for it to be boxy and unfitted. Admittedly, that would match up to the current fashion of nothing being fitted, which I also hate.

I loved the Dior new look episode a couple of years ago. The winner of that series (the newly qualified/ trainee doctor - Serena?) did a really lovely outfit.

That was a stonking episode. A great series, in fact, with both Serena and Ralph. This is a fab recound if that 40s week, though, with lots of pictures
https://ariadnereviews.com/2021/06/10/sewing-bee-2021-episode-9-the-pin-making-economy-of-redditch/

It's Wednesday again, this week, for some reason. Probably a ploy to keep Suzy in a day longer. She can't make it to the final, surely? All this lot were better than the current final 4.

Probably a ploy to keep Suzy in a day longer.

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I missed these updates! Why on earth is it Wed now? I'm really fed up that they keep shifting it about. I was looking forward to 9pm tonight now the football has finished.