Great British Sewing Bee is back on 15th July

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I'm looking forward to it.

Well that was a lovely start!

Hard disagree - the models are all different shapes and sizes and you fit to your model, their gender is irrelevant, you fit to their shape.

Agree, I said this to my husband. It’s not fair for someone to get to do a dress on a male form which is straight up and down compared to the female form.

Doing a full bust adjustment is much harder than a stick shaped model

The black bit of the dress that won, ie the main body wasn't well fitted at all. There seemed to be no shaping to the bust, hips or waist apart from a belt. The sleeves were undoubtedly impressive though.

I do agree that they should have people with similar body shapes. It would be unfair to have given someone a model with a large bust for example.

We thought it was for either collecting eggs or carrying baguettes.

I was just about to type the same thing.

Completely agree, it takes much more time and skill to fit to a female bust.

So they guy that got garment of the week, is he the engineer with George Clark amazing spaces programme? They look very very similar

I thought pie, chips, pint.
I’m pure class me.

I would have the two denim dresses in a heartbeat 💓

Obviously the winner filled the brief. Well done Peter.

I liked lots of the dresses and the winning one was very clever, but it wasn’t a very nice dress imho.

I like it when everyone's spared the first week! Bit more time to get to know everyone. Glad to see diverse representation of models - they'll switch them up week to week I'm sure in the interest of fairness - I agree with @HeadNorth. You've got to be able to fit to a variety of body shapes, straight up and down or whatever.

Really loved Saffy's - probably my favourite!

I liked a lot of the garments and the standard seems generally better than last season but I agree that all the models should be roughly the same size and if that is man shaped then they should all get a man for fairness .

So glad it's finally back.

I'm very impressed with the standard this year. They all seem very competent. Those m2m garments were very good , lots of imagination and no disasters. I look forward to next week.

Jess is the model on the latest tatb pattern.

@2Rebecca I agree on gathering stitches. I know that pattern instructions always say to sew 2 rows but I find one is perfectly fine if the fabric isn't too heavy.

Bah - thought Sarah Pascoe had left. Bring back Kiell!

@CaptainMyCaptainit reminds me of those swimsuits with the tube floats round the body that some kids in the 80’s instead of arm bands.

Enjoyed that!

I did think Orla and Saffy were rather hard done by when it came to GOTW - the shoulders on the winning dress were fantastic but the rest of the dress was pretty straightforward compared to their two.

Bloody hell, that is a mean-spirited comment.

Not actually him but DH and I are indeed calling him Will Hardie!

Next week he will make a dress that flips 180 degrees after you put it on 😉.

It may be seem mean spirited to you but it has become a reality TV competition trope that at least one contestant mentions a dead relative.

She said they sewed together. It was hardly shoehorned in. He looked lovely but not particularly elderly and I thought it was genuinely sad.

I’m the first to call out contestants in singing shows doing it for their dead granny but this was not that.