Unpicked | Ep4 Reduce Reuse Recycle Week - our reaction of The Great British Sewing Bee 2022
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
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The Great British Sewing Bee Series 8 - 2022 Unpicked Episode 4
Week 4: Reduce Reuse Recycle Week. What did you think of the fabulous quilted patchwork jacket challenge? Ting, Áine and I are patchworkers and quilters! This is our thing, so it will be great to talk about this challenge!
Content Timings:
0:00 | Intro
1:23 | Pattern Challenge
23:58 | The Transformation Challenge
33:24 | Made to Measure
50:04 | Slipper Rating
51:55 | Final Thoughts
Join in the conversation - let us know in the comments what garment you liked and who stood out for you.
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Important: Here at The Woolpatch we are huge fans of Sewing Bee and in total admiration of the programme and the sewers and all the wonderful things they create. We know we are not experts, but we love talking about the show and expressing our views each week. Welcome to our free flowing amateur analysis of the latest series of sewing bee. Our opinions are our own, no offence is intended and in no way detract from our love and admiration of the show and the sewers who appear. We'd love to hear what you thought and if you agree or disagree! Let us know in the comments.
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I think this was one of my all-time favorite episodes, because of both the sewing level of the participants, as well as how well-thought out all three challenges were. I don't usually care for the second challenge, but I do think combining two coats could have some actual practical application. If you have ripped or stained a particular portion of one coat (or it no longer fits, or if elements are out of style), this could potentially give new life to a favorite coat. I kind of wish I hadn't donated my expensive '90s wool swing coat to Goodwill last year...
As a child of the '70s, I can say that maxi, midi, and mini (and don't forget micro mini) described only the length of the skirt or dress. I have a distinct memory of my mother explaining the terms to me after I'd asked her what they meant. The hippie-style voluminous maxi dresses might be what you think of when you picture a maxi dress, but really, it was the length that defined it as maxi. Maxi skirts were really popular, too, and those tended to be A-line skirts (popular hostess attire for dinner parties).
As for the lace panels, that was machine-made lace. While lace *can* be crocheted, crocheting can't be done by machine. Lace can be knitted (which obviously can be done by machine), but most machine made lace is going to be done by a completely different process.
Think Ting got maxi dress and buffet dress confused😄
You are correct regarding the maxi etc
What a lovely entertaining show you guys! Ting…..you were on fire…….and looking stunning in Fuschia! Sharon x
Great discussion again this week! I am bored by the puff sleeves frankly and I think she might be getting some favouritism? Let’s see next week.
I really liked Cristians jacket. The yellow was really calming for such a hectic challenge. Just loved how excited Brogan was with her jacket.
When I saw that they were making a quilted jacket from scratch, I thought ‘no way!’ I’ve only ever made a couple of quilts but I’d need a few days for that pattern challenge. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who preferred the curved binding. I really wasn’t keen on Brogans maxi dress. I think Princess Diana wore a shorter, similar version as a maternity dress in the 80’s. I feel it’s still any bodies game at the moment. One bad week and anyone could go. I think the judges must’ve been watching this channel last year, because the judging does seem fairer this year. Take care x
One of the things I would like to see is a change of models to men, and making mens garments, after all the men on the Bee are making women’s clothing, and in the balance of fairness. If we are trying to look at sewers skills across the board then this would be fair and add a new dimension.
I agree
So excited to see Adam on next week!!!
I teared up at the end when Gill spoke about how she came on the program to show people that it's ok to be different and that people who are different shouldn't be written off. Love Gill for this
Shes really an inspiration
Indeed, it was a special moment - an inspiration for sure
Gill has done consistently good sewing. I'm super impressed with her skill and sense of style.
As patchworkers and quilters, Ting, Áine and I were loving the pattern challenge - so for once we can really comment from years of experience in this field! Let us know what you thought and how are your favourites getting on?
Have I lost an episode? Looking for this week's session🤔
I made a quilted coat from scratch, self drafted pattern with silk batik fabric and I made it completely reversible with all hand sewn hidden seams… took me an entire week and six months on still haven’t sorted out the buttons… I have decided to title it.. Edge to Edge as they used to call it. Another great unpicking. I am not a quilter but I love to hear and watch others with their given craft. Thank you for taking the time to share.
WOW Debra! all I can say is Get Those BUTTONS! All that hard work. Completely understand though, buttons can make or break a garment so you can't just chuck any on, but finding shops with a good range is hard. Even in my shop, I only carry a few ranges as it's space and money and looking at them on the internet isn't the same. Challenge for you.....get the buttons on and send us a pick by end of the series! Would love to celebrate it! Stuart :)
Thanks for another great review and chat! Loved the history bit too, very informative. Loved Annie's and Debra's quilted jackets. Made to measure challenge, wow! amazed at what can be made for old duvets.
Love the review....agree the patchwork jackets were amazing for the time allowed. Will have to go back and watch again in light of your comments...missed the fact the coated werent quilted on the back. Would like to hear more commentary from all the participants on the show. Looking forward to next week!
Cheers Sally! I watched it twice too and picked up on stuff I missed before....partly because the what's app with Ting keeps going off hahah
I still have a few of my 70s maxi dresses stashed away in a suitcase. I'm loathed to get rid of them even though they wouldn't fit me now. Three I made myself.
Just googling “nesting,” and “chain piecing,” as I’ve just started patchwork. Lots of great tips, thank you 👍
Anytime - even more tips on the other show 'All Gathered Up'. Watch my tutorial of chain piecing and nesting :) ua-cam.com/video/IIyk6GYm-gs/v-deo.html
Good Luck! Hope you get into it :) Stuart
Love the idea of a retrospective slipper 🤣. Go for it Ting! Lovely for you to have a challenge where you have expertise. I thought they did a really good job given they weren’t quilters but it did make me sweat watching them try to do all that in the time. I have some unused log cabin squares so I think a quilted gilet is in my future. The transformation was the best one yet I thought. I loved Annie’s red coat and I agree with Aine - it’s something home sewers could and would tackle when they have a coat they don’t wear any more. I hated Brogans dress - the duvet made me feel I’ll and the style overall was very old fashioned. Christians was fabulous, the fabric made it And the inserted turquoise took it up a level I felt. Gills was a deserving winner - loved the chevrons. As much as I hate to disagree with Ting a maxi dress is the length not the style - so there was one that was too short.
haha it's now a thing, the retrospective slipper! haha. Love our chats. Get those unused log cabins out - a quilted gilet will be awesome - especially for this winter!!
I loved the patchwork jacket challenge it has really inspired me to have a go but not in 4.5 hours! Great review x
Me too! I'm also feeling inspired to make a patchwork jacket :)
I think after 4 episodes we can now all agree that they've been listening to our superior wisdom: we get the history bits, the explanations of sewing techniques, the "usefulness" of challenges...
I thought the supposed simplicity of making a coat out of a coat was good. Taking the sleeves/collar/whatever from one garment and putting it into another might be something homesewers do more often than making a glamorous evening dress out of a teatowel and some old socks.
Calling the next ejectee at 9.11pm is probably going to be a lot more difficult since all those who struggled from the start are out now (no offense to your Mystic Meg abilities, Ting!). And the ones who seemed solid in episodes 1-3 have had a wobble in this one (Marni, Man Yee), and the previously volatile ones have now come out top (e.g. Annie). I really like Cristians stuff, hope he goes far.
Have a good week, can't wait for the next one with lovely Adam! That should make up for the dreaded kiddy episode.
Lovely to read.....superior wisdom of course haha. Yes, it's going to be great with Adam next week!
he pattern challenges this season because they are setting things up on a more even starting point: giving them wool fabric or a set of pre-cut squares makes that challenge more about following a pattern. I think Brogan's dress, because she used a vintage duvet cover, verged into costume territory.
I always thought a Maxi dress had spaghetti straps, and sort of form fitted around the top, (not to the waist) but like a gradual increase in fabric from the neckline, with the bottom of the dress being quite full and voluminous but, I've just looked up the definition and it just states "a dress reaching to the ankle"
Great, fun vlog. Looking forward to the technical skills video. 💕🧵🐝
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa wore a £20 Zara bedsheet as a skirt to the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019 award
wow really? ooo I'm going to go google that now haha. Thanks
Who was it that said that the judges should be judging the sewing and not the colour or patterns that were used?
I found it odd that they cut out the panels before quilting it too.
The transformation challenge was very wartime make-do-and-mend. There are lots of survuiving examples, mostly of dresses, where two old dresses were remade into one new dress (in a newer style). For once I really liked the subject of this challenge, even though I didn't particularly like most of the resulting coats.
On the whole I liked the duvet made-to-measure, having made garments from old duvet covers myself {looks at current work-in-progress - an 18th Century gown from an old IKEA duvet set}. I thought that, on the whole they had some lovely results (though I agree with Ting and Aine's comments about the well made but very horribly 80s "nan" dress by Brogan).
I like the 11-minutes-past-nine calling it - I didn't think to try it myself buut will try to rememebr to do it for this week's episode.
I thought asking them to do patchwork and make a garment was a bit much. I know it's all sewing but It's a completely different area to dressmaking. The backs of the jackets looked odd being plain.
I didn't think patchwork and quilting were discovered in the USA, what about the UK doing it for a few hundred years.
I don't remember patchwork in the 60s either.
I loved the quilted jacket technical challenge as I am a quilter and I have made quilted jackets in the past; BUT, as everyone has said, the time element was not realistic. O, to have had just 45 minutes more would have made a world of difference for all the sewers--especially when it came to the binding. Cutting up two coats to make one had me cringing. Perhaps had they shown how worn out the coats were I might have liked the challenge. Hmm. The Made to Measure was fun. I liked the diversity of the used duvet fabrics and prints, and I'm glad Gil won Garment of the Week though I did like Christian's dress as well.
It was a cracking episode for sure but yeah, the binding alone would take ages....I loved the edit...'5 minutes left' and then one sewer was like....right just binding to go! hahah. If it only took 5 minutes hey haha
I didn’t like Brogan’s dress it was too granny for me.. I loved the dress with the split arms - can’t remember all the sewers names.. looking forward to seeing Adam.. do you do classes teaching quilting?
Gill had the dress with split arms. Garment of the Week. It was fabulous. I do teach quilting yes. At my shop, I used to advertise different classes, but have changed it to just bespoke classes. So I teach to whatever the customer wants, say, piecing, quilting, learning to bind etc. This can be 1 to 1 or with a friend. The tea shop next door then brings in tea/coffee and cake to keep us going!
@@TheWoolpatch sounds good. Do you need your own sewing machine? I have one but thinking of a class with my daughter..
If I had been given that quilted jacket challenge, I would have run out of the room. That would have been the end for me. I liked Annie's jacket colors with the black contrast. I think that binding gave them all trouble. I think they were all amazing considering the time frame they were given. I also liked Annie's transformation, it had a nice shape. I'm with Ting, I have my eye on Annie. On MTM challenge, I may be the only one who didn't care for Gill's dress here, the style and combo of fabric didnt appeal. I liked the style of Debra's and Christian's fabric combo was beautiful. Looking forward to seeing Adam next week!
Yup, I don't know many in the patchwork world that enjoys binding. hahah.It's going to be great with Adam for sure! Can't wait.
I thought the first challenge was so ridiculous time wise that I found myself being up for the 2 who didn't finished as it was so unrealistic, and I was irritated with the ones who did cos they made it look like it was a reasonable request , I was inspired by the idea though. I also felt uncomfortable with the idea of coats getting torn up when they could go to good homes. I agreed with Jill winning as soon as I realised she was one of the few who had actually dragged a worn out duvet out of the back of the hotpress rather than 'an online charity shop' Yea right!!! But love the show and your analysis.
I didn't know there was such a thing as an online charity shop. Is that like Macmillan or St Nics online I wonder?
@@TheWoolpatch I'm in Ireland and there is a website that incorporates most of the charity shops here that was set up during covid to keep the money coming in, can't remember the name of it but my kid's use it, I'm sure you have them in the UK
I’m wondering if there is a underlying medical reason Debra does high necks,
Hello hello! Late to the comments I know, but! I just watched your review with my sewing friend! The one who I couldn't be with during lockdown... which is why I first found your GBSB reviews! Full circle!
Anyway, I thought the coat thing was silly. *Reduce* reuse recycle does not mean take two functional coats, discard half of both to make one single new one 🤦🏻♀️, completely wrong meaning of "reduce" lol. I like the idea of the quilted jackets (patchwork/quilter in a past life) but I did not like the fabric choices they were given at all. Although they did claim it was recycled waste from previous years? They were all very twee, or maybe it was the way they grouped the selections. Also, plain back? I don't think they were ever meant to be truly wearable items.
Brogans dress was awful colour/style wise, I am finding the judging very subjective again. I liked Angela's best. Gill is awesome, I just found the stripes got lost against the bolder print so it looked washed out.
Retrospective slippers r us.
See you next week x
Never too late for comments! It's just good to be talking sewing!! Yes, a lot of the patchwork world fabric can be twee. If you look at the big US company MODA, you'll see lots of those pastel pink, mints, strawberrys etc. They love it. Love how you've gone full circle and that you're able to watch with your friend and US!
Don't forget the 9.11 call...post your predictions here...we'll accept upto 9.15 just in case the history bit overruns...🤣🤣🤣
Pretty sure those squares were not recycled fabric.... I did noticed the lack of chaining, it is a technique for speed in garment sewing but can only really be used in specific circumstances like making binding etc. or if you are making multiple of the same garment so it's not suprising that there was a lack of it. Transformation Challenge, Was more in-line with what people do do when transforming thrifted garments I just wish they had 5 hours as they would of been so much better. Made to Measure. I felt like Maxi dress was too loose of a brief. I feel like it should of been something like Maxi Length, w/ a Collar (not specifice just that it needs one), w/Sleeve Length, w/Closure type as some people did a lot more work than others but also how can you compare it otherwise. Annie's not sure why they said crochet when the technique was Lace Insertion which is a know and slightly historical technique. Gil's diagram had Bishop Sleeves so I was confused for a bit that they were saying cape sleeves until it was revealed and I was like oh the diagram was wrong! Loved Christian's, feel like he is the darkhorse in this series and thoguht it would be Garment of the Week. I won't say which ones I didn't like. I feel if Man Yee had done a little worst she would have gone but Steve was the right choice in the end. Here's the thing, "Maxi" just refers to length which I believe to be just above the floor length but I think it can be ankle too, that is the only thing it refers to anytihng else is fair game so sorry Ting I have to say your incorrect on that. Steve with the Sharpie I legit was like do it go on, do it, screw them as a last hoorah! Annie and Christain's are ones to watch.
Fabulous comment to read! Yes, Cristian is definitely a dark horse and coming through more and more now. Final 3?
Why was the quilting history from America? I know Gees Bend is famous in the quilting world but we have our own long rich quilting tradition and that should have been used.
I was a bit confused by that as well. I went to a patchwork/quilting historical exhibition at the v&a some years ago and I am sure there were some really old English pieces there.
Imagine a wood working competition show and they kicked off all the female contestants in the first four episodes. There'd be riots in the streets.
I'm not sure why because I don't think she's the worst but I think Man Yee may go this week #9:11call Where is the history bit? Have I missed it due to drinking wine and bitching on WhatsApp about the show?
Oh it was well timed - after 9:11
OK that was a fail!
Hahah I nearly missed it too…was too busy what’s apping Ting and Carol! I went for Angela because of the foreshadowing about her making loads and loads haha
Haha yup! Unless she comes last in the transformation - you never know
Ha ha I've gone Angela or Annie... difficult call this week especially at 9.11!
This is when I start abandoning the series. The judging is so subjective, clearly Patrick and Esme have favourites and that makes them very partial on the comments. The whole "Amish" looking dress was a big no. Immediately no. In the realm of MAXIs some were anything but that. Also its still very unclear the percentage that each challenge really has to the final choice. Not feeling very hopeful on the kiddy's week...
As for Children's week.....Just think back to last year with Andrews Crab, or the year before with Therese's Grapes, there are some gems to keep us feeling hopeful and to keep watching....don't turn over just yet....