Finally got up to date with episode 2 last night. I don't come onto the Forum and read what everyone says until I've seen it......so....yes, I did like the gold one but there were things I liked about a few of them actually so garment of the week for me should have been in the plural really!! My favourite was Brogan's one actually, but like the rest of you the gold one's lining was eye catching and although um...what's his name ' Richy? - yes, Richy's one was too small I did particularly like the knitted welt and cuffs his jacket had.
As for the trainers. Well I said from episode 1 that I thought they'd gone straight to the deep end of the pool (i.e. getting to the 'tough' stuff before starting off at an easier level and getting progressively more demanding) - so to me the trainers again brought the programme into this category.
I couldn't help but applaud Gill for managing to do this task bearing in mind her arm situation, and having said that I do think Esme and Patrick could have helped all of the sewers undertaking the eyelet section if they had just suggested giving the implement used for inserting the eyelets themselves a good whack with something hard. If I'm putting eyelets in something (as I have done in the past) at home I have a little toffee hammer as I call it that I borrow from Geoff's shed and whack the thing with that. It packs a nice little 'thump' to the mechanism one uses and is literally like the little hammers they used to use in sweet shops years ago when breaking up say a tray of peanut brittle toffee.
Oh - go on - all have a groan ...call me an oldie ....I mean, can you even get peanut brittle toffee on trays anymore......probably not..... but there must surely be a Guild member out there somewhere who knows what sort of little hammer I'm on about.......
