So looking forward to the start of the next series of Great British Sewing Bee. My admiration for the people who enter as contestants knows no bounds.....
How they can start and finish a garment in one session absolutely beats me. Okay, so we do see the odd little wrinkle that you might think wouldn't pass muster, but I tend to base my viewpoint of it by the fact that I could never start and finish something in say the allotted 2 hours or what have you.
I did some serious amounts of dress making when in my late teens and I tended to work on the basis that day one I would do all the pinning and cutting out - then stop. Then another day I might start putting pieces together and say make up the skirt section. By the time I got to putting sleeves in - well, a certain amount of gathering over the top where it meets the shoulder of the bodice, could take me masses of concentration and wriggling and adjusting to inset a perfect sleeve. I would then collapse in a heap with success and think 'blow it, that's enough of that for today'.....then insertion of the other sleeve would be done a day or two later.
These contestants though are expected to present a totally completed item in whatever time allowance they are given - which they all aim to do, plus the fact that they very often are helpful to each other at the same time - I couldn't work under that pressure, and I certainly couldn't work with t.v. cameras filming me.
All I can say is 'Well done ladies and gents' - even before they start!! Oh roll on Wednesday and let's get this show on the road........
