Sewing Bee 2020

I hate sewing, won’t even sew buttons on, my hubby leaves the room if he sees me building up to getting needle and cotton out as he knows only too well how it’s likely to end up! But I love this show. I’m fascinated every week by how they all stay so calm and produce such wonders, although it amused me this week when the machines started to play up that it brought back all the frustration and anger I felt in the distant past whenever I had to attempt any type of needlework. 🤭😆

I thought simple sewing was one of the basic skills everybody was supposed to have.

When I was a child I was fascinated by my mother's hand-cranked Singer, and years ago I picked up one myself for a couple of quid at an auction. All the lacquered and chromed parts whirring and spinning and shuttling and flying up and down. Marvellous bits of engineering, they are.

It's very entertaining isn't it! The fabrics this week, gosh, that llama print, and the Frida Kahlo, and that lovely fish print. I really like the '40's dressed doctor's style (I like me some quirk). Joe Lycett has had some (100+ from his twitter comment) complaints to the BBC about his double entendres .. like him a lot more than Claudia.

So many shots of Bermondsey Street, where I usually spend my 9-5 days .... sigh, almost missing the place. Almost.

Again, some lovely fabrics! I wish i could sew ..

So this week the contestant with the best couture item got the boot? WTF?

Though to be fair that invisible zip on the pattern challenge was a shocker.

i think Nicole was in the bottom 2 for every challenge and she wasnt even mentioned as a possibility of going home, yet Matt had the best pattern win and Liz won best Couture.
That made no sense.

I think Claire is so dull, but i suspect she'll win.

I actually had to check that I didn't write this post because every word of it sums up my thoughts exactly. Claire has definitely been the most consistent so will most like win, but I'm not really a fan.  

This show - like many others - comes down to the final challenge. You can have scraped into the final with a mediocre track record and then deliver a gorgeous taffeta ball gown and the trophy is yours

Nicole has had too many lucky escapes for me not to think that there is some favouritism going on for some reason.

She has won garment of the week three times - so she has talent. But she has also failed badly more than any of the others left. She should have come bottom in the Marilyn dress pattern challenge - she didn't finish and she made it wrong - it was worse than the badly fitted zip red version.

Claire is usually precise but also usually dull.

Matt has technical skill and if, as it sounds, he is doing a drag outfit for the final challenge, that could be his route to the win. A male winner would be good after such a strong season of male sewists.

One thing i would like as a improvement is that they show the main pieces someone has made as they leave to remind us of what that person did. They do it on master chef.

I don't like the comedy approached of either Joe Lycett or Claudia Winkleman