The Great British Sewing Bee

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The Great British Sewing Bee

The three finalists take on a trio of evening wear challenges. Bringing together a range of advanced sewing skills, from tailoring to high-end designing, perfecting evening wear.

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Season 5
Joe Lycett hosts the semi-final, taking on garments and techniques from around the world. Judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young ask them to make a pair of Indian dhoti pants.
With Joe Lycett hosting, the quarter-finalists face British and Irish fabrics week. Judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young ask the sewers to create a 'workers jacket' from linen.
Host Joe Lycett kicks the six remaining home sewers off with a pattern for a pussy-bow blouse, which must be pieced together from four second-hand garments.
The fabrics in the haberdashery go technical, as the seven remaining home sewers take on manmade fabrics designed for sport and the great outdoors.
The eight remaining home sewers head back in time to the 1970s, attempting to revive the glamorous, rebellious and sometimes ridiculous, style of the decade.
The nine home sewers remaining return for children's week; the challenge is to make complicated mini-garments that include hoodies and dance costumes; Joe Lycett hosts.
Ten talented home sewers are eased in gently with cotton fabric, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy. The judges have chosen a Dior-inspired 'wiggle dress' designed to hug.
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