👗 Sewing Bee 👗

Luke definitely deserve it last night, but all x3 are good, especially when you saw the whole of their collective work, Gloves now that must have been hard, I wouldn't tackle it!

Still love this program, reminds me of my Mum an incredible needlewoman, who taught me.
I'm not bad but not in the same league as my Late Mum.
We would sit in her flat and watch this on catch up together.

This series was rather lack-lustre.

I didn’t really care who won, and when the former contestants were shown, I thought how unmemorable nearly all of them were.

I think they're running out of ideas.
Making a garment from party pieces was quite ridiculous.

We don't need to see gimmicks, we want to see skill.

The skill gets lost as the clock ticks down. There have been many sewers who can sew beautifully but lack of time means hems and buttonholes got left undone and anyone can make mistakes when under great pressure.
I think it would be better to give them more time so we and the judges can see how well they have made a finished garment.
Making unwearable garments out of ridiculous materials is no test of sewing ability.

watermeadow There have been 9 previous years of Sewing Bee and in all nine most sewers managed to complete their grarments within the time limits given and many faced sewing tasks far more complicated than this year's group did.

The reason this year's group had so much ptoblem is because they just did not have the sewinh skills of contestants in previous years.

It will not surprise me to hear from the BBC that this will be the last series and what happened this year - pleasant but unexciting contestants with moderate sewing skills is probably part of the exit strategy.

I love sewing bee . And always find the contestants very skilled but there have been some weird tasks this series.

I would love them to have real people for the made to measure not tall slim models . But I know even if they have a plus size challenge they would use 6' tall models who are a size 18-20. And not real woman like I was when I was a size 32 and 5' 2". I lost 7st a size 16 now . But have lots of wobbly flabby bits that I like covered up . Only close fitting clothes I like wearing are knickers ,bras and tights.

Would like them to have disabled models for at least one made to measure again real people not beautiful fit models that we see in some advertising campaign. Because of my disability I have muscle wastage on my left hip and have a strange walking gait which makes me wobbly and lop sided.

I have sent the BBC an email in the past asking for normal models but never had a reply.

So pleased that Luke won. He pulled all the stops out when it mattered. His dramatic drape dress was certainly that.

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