Tuesday 30 June 2020

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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10 comments:

  1. So That's what you do with pins, so good to know!

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  2. I have had to show people how to use pins before. Watching them just stick the sharp end in, like a drawing pin and leave it. Crazy.

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    1. It never occurred to me that some people genuinely might not know how to use a pin...

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  3. Did you visit their website for more advice? :)

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  4. It's probably Government safety rules or something ridiculous.
    'Pins can hurt. Do not eat' etc.

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  5. I'm so glad Claire won too. Throughout the series, she has consistently made good garments, always quietly in the top 3 but rarely the star whereas others have had star garments and then terrible individual results throughout. She has shown herself to be quietky very competent and cool under pressure. The gazebo challenge is a super idea. Old tents too, would be a similar but good one.

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    1. I agree with your summing up of Claire's performance. Did you see her Mum interviewed? She was equally delightful

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    2. Wasn't she!!! Such a sweetie! I love how Claire REALLY didn't expect to win either. She wasn't faking it- she genuinely thought the others were going to win because they are usually more showered in praise

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