Winning The Transformation Challenge

I watched the Great British Sewing Bee with much less enthusiasm this time round - I recorded it, then watched it a day or two later, zizzing through the bits which didn't really interest me. But I was so pleased when Clare Bradley won - she was the contestant I'd liked best from the first episode

Like Bake-Off, the programme designers must have to work really hard to come up with different ideas for the three categories each week.I really must email Patrick, and suggest a transformation challenge using old gazebos.

In the autumn I produced a microphone case and a set of dust covers for record decks using walls from our defunct gazebo.

On Saturday I turned another wall into a cover for our garden bench in Dorset. I'd measured it before I came away, and it wasn't a complicated job. Fortunately the two armchairs here, when pushed together are almost exactly the same dimensions, just a little higher. This will look much better than the current cover, which has totally disintegrated.

I mislaid my little blue Dorcas pin tin, so I'd picked up a box of pins [in Wilko I think]

They are just a plastic box of pins. But I have never in all my days come across pins which have instructions before!

I know many people are taking up sewing as a hobby at the moment, but this seems rather extreme! What next - "please put your thread through the hole in the needle before you start to stitch"? Or "Safety warning - these pins have points"

 

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