Great British Sewing Bee is back on 15th July

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I'm looking forward to it.

the bust area was a bit of a shitshow, but the rest of it was beautifully cut and sewn.
Loved Caz's. Loved Dan's a lot. Poor Gaynor had a bit of a mare, she looked so surprised not to go.
Will miss Jess.

I think Jess lost confidence early on and that finished her. I suspect she can sew very well when not under such pressure. However, I’m glad Dan has done well this week, he seems really nice.

Dan deserved that win x. He was the best contestant this week.

The only festival that I've been is the Festival of Quilts, not sure I could wear a tent. There has been a bit of a trend to turn quilts into jackets recently though.

He even stitched along the curve of the pockets. They fold like magic when you do that.

Kit was very impressive in this episode. The time challenges don't seem to faze him. Delighted Dan got GOTW, the design and placing of the logo's on the top of his dress must have taken forever. And he looked so pleased! Caz did well with the placing of the red damask through her denim creation.

Gaynor remains my favourite, she's low key and quiet, a great sewer but needs the time to finish beautifully and I think lacks imagination with the challenges. Catching glimpses of her dress from last week tonight - it's really a beautiful thing.

There really does seem to be a different class of sewer this year than previous years, or the most recent years anyway. Earlier series had some jaw-dropping contestants, I haven't felt that in the most recent years.

I thought that too 😂

I was really disappointed with the challenges on the reduce, reuse, recycle week.

Pattern challenge - fine. Zero waste jacket, challenging pattern and measuring and although some were great (Orla's black and pink) others clearly struggled. Good test of skills out of the comfort zone.

Transformation - absolute nonsense. There are some very skilled crafters out there who are reusing tents and turning them into wallets/bags - this would have been a much better challenge showing different skills and creativity. The outfits were ridiculous and nobody wants a festival outfit made of waterproof nylon.

Made to measure - far too vague. Take some old clothing or fabric and turn it into anything you like. Should have been more specific - old jeans into a jacket, duvet covers into a dress, tablecloths into a men's summer outfit or whatever. Orla's dress looked like she was off to work in Santa's grotto as an elf. The jacket turned into a skirt was appalling. I liked Caz's jumpsuit and Dan's clever use of the gold text but really what they should be saying is stop buying 13 pairs of matching "christmas 2022" pyjamas in the fucking first place.

Not the best episode.

There was a craftsman on Money for Nothing (Neil Wragg) who used to take things like old tents and make bespoke bags, wallets, etc. Definitely agree that the transformation challenge could have been something like that.

I liked Orla's dress and would have worn it when I was younger. I agree the tweed skirt was awful. The Christmas pyjamas I guess were worn again as pyjamas not just discarded.

Agree with you @GenieGenealogybuying 12 pairs of cheap PJ’s to wear once is not really an endorsement for environmentally sound habits.
I also agree that the man’s shirt too and suit jacket skirt were stylistically awful (though may have been technically well made), I can’t think of any woman that would wear that which was the point of the brief , to make something genuinely wearable not like the often silly repurposing challenge.

The idea of te tweed skirt and the use of the shirts was fab though lacking in the execution department. Agree the m2m needed a better theme than "turn anything into anything."

Agree on the pattern challenge, even though I dislike unlined jackets.

Heartily sick of the wastage in the transformation (but glad to see the junked Glastonbury tents being used). Making them into tore bags, messenger bags, rucksacks oe anything useful would habmve been way better.

this sort of thing. https://www.crackpacs.com/ And it could have been - take these old tents and use them to make a bag to carry your kit for the next festival you visit.

I just don’t think they will give Gaynor the prize, despite her great sewing ability @BippidyBoppety
I think Caz or Kit for the win.
Mind you I was sure Jurgen would win GBBO (😡 he didn’t) so what do I know.
I was delighted for Dan.

Surely Gaynor was lucky not to go home this week, let alone win? If Jess hadn't been so awful, she would have been off. I'm sure she's a great sewer in her own time, but her design and time keeping are letting her down badly.

Agree totally that Gaynor was saved by Jess . I think the brief was a bit loose this week as most of those clothes you wouldn’t wear to any kind of event .

I thought Yasmin’s dress was the most wearable.

Think Kit will win but Caz will be in the final is my prediction.

have really taken to Caz she reminds of someone fab at work.

I loved Caz's grey dress. It seemed to me that it was marked down just because it was grey and Esme didn't like the colour, but some of us love grey and don't like garish colours!

I assume Caz was restricted by the colour of the tent available to her as well. Made in non-tent fabric, I’d love a dress exactly like that (and an occasion to wear it to)

The transformation challenge always seems to produce the same sort of clothes. Whatever they're transforming there's always some kind of puffball skirt/dress, some kind of top that uses lots of straps so is a bit bondagey and gives minimum boob coverage, a pair of wide trousers with some kind of cut outs on the legs.

I hate, hate, hate the transformation challenge. It’s the equivalent for me of the 'missing vowels' round in 'Only Connect' - it's a real weak link in the show. There's not even a pretence that anything they come up with is genuinely wearable.

Some of those tent transformations might be wearable as a sort of sauna suit - imagine how hot and sweaty you'd be.

Yes I thought it was harsh that Esme didn’t like the use of one single grey colour. It was what she was given and she worked with it with a great result. An example where there’s too much emphasis on style over technique and you made something great out of a tent

I loved her grey dress too and thought it was great. I’m not a lover of grey but that’s not the point.
It was a great dress done out of little resources.
Well done Caz.