Great British Sewing Bee

[House of Tea]

So thank you for telling me that -- we don't usually tell this until a couple of days later as some us don't watch until tomorrow but do like to hear discussions without names.

So thank you for telling me that? The thread isn’t waiting for you and the comments aren’t directed at you. Don’t read here until you have watched. Why should we censor ourselves in case you are reading. This is a discussion thread of the programme, there are no rules about revealing results in real time, it’s egotistical to suggest that there should be no discussion until you are ready. The sensible thing is to catch up when you have watched. It’s what I normally do.

 

[traumatised sideboard]

Did anyone else get Boots Saturday job vibes from the winning dress? I don't think it was the best one.

 

[House of Tea]

Alert…

The ninth series of the sewing competition will be airing on BBC One on Wednesday 24 May 23 at 9pm and will also be available on BBC iPlayer, with a new episode released each week.

 

[Lostcat]

Mia cheerfully saying "Oh, I wasn't even born in the 1990s!" has reduced me to a geriatric zombie, shambling towards my grave. Surely the '90s were only three years ago?

Absolutely cracking soundtrack this week though, I was reliving my childhood all the way through.

 

[Dizzy]

Just finished watching and in total agreement about Assma’s final dress. I actually ‘wow’d when the reveal happened

Really enjoyed this episode and loved that they went for the Victoriana/Vampire’s Wife style dress for the pattern challenge. I think they all deserved their place in the final but Assma was such a worthy winner and as someone who’s had a mastectomy and knows how life changing that is, I love that she is a breast surgeon and even more that she is looking at designing nice bras for women like me.

 

[Lostcat]

erm….I really want Esme‘s outfit

God, Esme is such fun, isn't she? Casually throwing them a dress design of her own creation that's in the V&A, telling Patrick off for being a fuddy-duddy and casually admitting the only way she'd be at a coffee morning was if she was still up from partying the night before.

What a woman. I love her.

 

[coldestofspirits]

I like Asmaa’s personality a lot, I appreciate the fact that while she is living her own life in a more culturally conservative way, she seems totally accepting and supportive of her daughter’s choices. Every time she mentions her daughter she sounds so loving and warm, but without being over-sharing like some people get on these shows. I also like the fact that despite obviously doing very important work in her role as a surgeon, she doesn’t wank on about the NHS and expect lots of praise and deference - despite the bad rep surgeons get, she seems very on the level.

 

[Sprezza]

Patrick is on BBC news and said they are having to make the challenges harder as the contestants get better every year.

True but if they're not careful they'll go down the route of bake off where they lose the whole essence of the show by trying to make it too complex and lose viewers.

 

[House of Tea]

Such a worthy winner. That final dress was mind blowing. Perfection.

 

[qwikti]

The blue/green dress was just pure genius, never been THIS genuinely impressed with someone on the show before. All that and a medical degree - and all done in red bottom heels. Can you tell I have a massive girl crush?

 

[Our Cilla]

Ive been stung by Sewing Bee and only gone and got my sewing machine out and made a lovely skirt from a dress that was too tight on top. I feel fanastic

 

[Restless Native]

Wow that final dress

 

[Lostcat]

That dress! Everything about it was amazing - the transformation, the colours, and it was so beautiful. A very worthy winner

Ah, it was beautiful, wasn't it! She really was in a different league to everyone else the whole run of the show, whatta woman!

I liked Tony's too: it was simpler, but very charming, and like Esme said, he'd come on so much since Week One! And I love that Mia is off to do Costume Design at uni, she was so delightfully creative in the Transformation Challenges that I'm 100% sure she'll be amazing at it!

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Garment of the week .

It was bliddy awful!
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Fauve is such a try hard. Wants to be a personality.

One day she will look at all her "pashing" on Patrick and will be too embarrassed to ever leave the house again . . . .

If I were her I\d start sewing a simple all-purpose garment based on Miss Haversham's bridal gown now.
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Fauve is the one we all hate this year, right? Because she is doing my head in

the men this series have been terrible - it’s like they just put them in for the sake of it

They’re trying to hard to come up with ‘new’ challenges (like bake off does too) and need to go back to ‘basics’. Although that transformation challenge was really good overall, Asmaa’s was stucking funnning

love love loved the cloud dress

Lizzie ftw, or Asmaa

They DO need to go back to basics - proper garments, well made and a wonderful atmosphere of camaraderie. Good use of recycled garments/ other materials but made into wearable garments.

Not being afraid to repeat challenges from one series to the next.

I want people who can sew - I don't care whether they're gay, straight, bi or trans. I know I'm a hard-faced lady-dog, but I JUST DON'T CARE!

Keep the background/ family stuff well out of the way (until maybe the final). I don't mind knowing that someone has X job, is married / co-habiting and collects cats, but I don't want their entire history and to meet their grandmother who dug for victory in the blitz.

Just sew.

 

[Lauurz]

The green and blue dress....wow! The way it just unraveled around that woman's body. Also, when it was blue, there was no way you could tell there was another dress underneath! The other two dresses were quite bulky in their first dress but Asmaas....there was just no hint to another dress. Amazing.

 

[Lostcat]

Esme's necklace this week was giving shades of Homebase decorative fencing department.

I love how Patrick turns up in a suit that's been cut to fit with 1/10 of a millimetre precision, made of the finest hand-sheared local organic wool, that took 200 hours to be put together by a master-tailor...and Esme rocks in wearing a necklace she made five minutes ago out of hand sanitiser bottles, nail polish and sellotape.

 

[Catlady1]

I loved the inclusive of Esmes past career all through this series.Gave the whole series so much personality and celebrated a true genius who was really a trail blazer for women in the 80’s and nineties.

 

[House of Tea]

Annie has come up slowly from the inside. Quiet, unassuming, talented, nice. She is going to win I think.

 

[uokhun92]

Aww what a lovely final. You have all summed it up perfectly, that dress was absolutely insane! Asmaa is next level.

I welled up for Mia, she is such a sweet girl and I’m sure she is going to have a successful career in costume design.

I did love Tony’s unique style and I really liked his dress too but Asmaa’s was 100% the winner.

 

[BearOnChair]

Well, the longer Matthew stays the bigger the scene will be when he goes.

I think this is why Asmaa is so classy. She's obviously making things more modest than the others. I guess in line with her views but I've not heard her say it whereas it's all Matthew talks about. Representation is quite rightly important but I think if you can't make the clothing say your message and need to back it up with the story for it to be obvious then it doesn't work as a design/concept. I hope he's out soon because there are better sewers.