So the Great British Sewing Bee returned to our screens last week, oh how I do love this show. And it got me wondering, would I be able to do that? There are eight episodes, whether I can keep up and manage eight challenges we will have to wait and see, but so far so good.
The first challenge they set to the combatants was to make a simple sleeveless top in just two and a half hours. Now like most people I don't time my sewing, it is just something I do because I enjoy it, I have sewn many things to a short deadline, but that usually means late nights and as many short-cuts as possible, no stop watches involved. I did wonder whether or not to even attempt this challenge, not because I thought it would be beyond my capabilities, but because I rarely wear sleeveless tops. Why make something, if you are not going to wear it?
Anyway I did decide to go ahead and give this a try, I found a pattern for a simple sleeveless top in my stash, that looked like the one used in the show and I had a remnant of a purple sheet, that was not really big enough for anything else. Now my lounge probably isn't as high pressured as the Sewing Bee Studio, I just had the company of the lovely Hagrid and an episode of "Poirot" on the DVR, but I did have a stop watch.
Two hours later (not two and a half) I had finished my top. The only thing I didn't manage to do was the understitiching, it wasn't a step included in my pattern and I didn't realise it had to be done when the neck facing had been sewn, but before the arm facing. Anyway I notched and pressed a facing and everything else it complete, hem, button, button loop. And it even fits.
Week One - Challenge One - Complete
I really liked the refashion challenge, but as I don't currently have a woollen maxi skirt to hack to bits, that challenge will have to wait. I am currently scouring charity shops for the necessary raw materials.
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