No! Not that, but this:
On Mondays, Game of Thrones takes precedence in this house, so I recorded the Bee. Sigh. Hardly worth it really, a very under-whelming ‘episode’ of nothing much. I couldn’t even get up much venom for a good shout, and only laughed out loud once at the embarrassing messes that a couple of people served up…yes, blah blah, I’m a mean-spirited old bat. I hold by my stance that they’ve put themselves out there into the big wide world, and they’re asking to be judged, so they’re fair game.
Part 1: following a pattern, making babygrows. Boring. Boring boring DOUBLE BORING! I didn’t care, Mrs Tango couldn’t even get much mileage out of shouting ‘gussets’ every so often, and everyone had trouble inserting poppers/snaps/press studs. Meh.
Part 2: chopping up a bridesmaid dress to make a garment for a child. Last week nearly everyone made skirts, this week nearly everyone made ‘princess’/party dresses. YAWN. One guy made a really neat zippered gilet, but it was way too small for his dummy. [For what it’s worth, I would have made a chiffon elephant costume. I don’t know why. but I could see a trunk and ears out of the pale blue dress lol]
Part 3: the bit where they know in advance what they’ll be making, AND have time beforehand to bloody well practice. FFS. A bloody CAPE. Hardly very demanding, you only have to get it right round the neck, and the length. Everyone started by measuring their models, you saw them all check arm length…then at least 3 of them produced messes that weren’t even elbow length. WTF? The guy who has the best skills made a very ambitious tweed jobby, but it was too complicated to finish in time, and the neckline was just plain weird…a low necked tweed cape? eh?
I really hope that next week ups the pace a little, and gets them doing something more interesting, or I will sadly decide that the programme has had its day, and stop bothering. Tedious in the extreme. Edna, what do we say?
I’m switching off Sewing Bee. On the baking thing they look for people who can actually bake, on Sewing Bee they look for people who can’t sew for sh*te. Waste of time, but still, weirdly addictive…..
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For me, the addiction comes from the shoutability…this is just dull and embarassing.
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Preview made it look like they will be doing lingerie. I can’t begin to imagine what kind of a mess they might make with that.
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Oh lord, I couldn’t even stomach it as far as the trailer…lingerie eh? Bound to be a right load of pants
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Well I saw your post and had to go watch it just so I could see what all the (lack of) fuss was about. My Mum though it was a load of rubbish and I am really finding it hard to get worked up about this series. The last one had some great sewers on it. This one is a bit “meh”. Still I am not doing it so will reserve judgement. It must be very hard to sew to such tight deadlines and under such scrutiny. Really looking forward to the lingerie sewing episode as this is comfy ground for me. I am expecting no pants. 😀 Xx
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Not loving this series, not that I thought a lot about last years. I read somewhere that part of next weeks challenge is bra making – could be good for a laugh or shouting at.
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Bras. Oh dear.
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A little something, might interest you, might not… brightonsewingcentre.co.uk/fabric-material-shop-brighton/becky-make-designs-novelty-equations-gray.html
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Nice…pity it’s gray though!
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oops dropped me doubleyous!
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