With Joe Lycett hosting, the six remaining home sewers head back in time to the 1980s, attempting to revive the glamorous - and sometimes ridiculous - style of the decade. This is more than a stroll down memory lane, as they tackle the decade’s most tailored, fun and over the top garments.\n \nFirst, judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young challenge the sewers to get down to business with the trickiest pattern so far, a woman’s power jacket. Creating the perfect jacket involves grappling with tailoring fabrics and taking on such daunting technical hurdles as lapel construction and inserting shoulder pads, hopefully without getting in a flap. For the transformation challenge, it's party time as the sewers let rip with their imagination, turning high-vis work clothes into party outfits.\n \nIn the made-to-measure challenge, the sewers take on their final icon of eighties fashion, the cocktail dress. Working with bold, shiny fabrics, they must create a knee-length-or-above dress that embodies the excess of the 1980s. Who will disco dance their way to garment of the week, and for whom will eighties week signal the end of an era, as they become the seventh sewer to wave goodbye to the Great British Sewing Bee?
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Series 8: Episode 10
It’s the grand final, and it’s Party Week as the finalists compete for the title of Britain’s best amateur sewer. They take on a trio of party-themed challenge ...
16-02-2024
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Series 8: Episode 9
Sara Pascoe welcomes the four semi-finalists into the Sewing Room to celebrate the influences of Japanese design and sewing. For the Pattern Challenge, Esme has collaborated wit ...
15-02-2024
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Series 8: Episode 8
The quarter-final takes the sewers back to the golden era of the 1930s. Esme and Patrick set them a Pattern Challenge for a pair of women’s sailor-inspired trousers with a ...
14-02-2024
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Series 8: Episode 7
A place in the quarter-final is at stake this week, and the challenges are all about lingerie. Host Sara Pascoe starts the sewers off with a fiddly pattern for a lace underwired ...
13-02-2024
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Series 8: Episode 6
Music Week brings three different musical and sartorial genres to the Sewing Bee. Sara Pascoe kicks off the week with a pattern for the parka coat that was adopted by Mod cultur ...
12-02-2024
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Series 8: Episode 5
It’s Children’s Week in the sewing room, and Sara Pascoe invites the sewers to make a cute sailor suit for a toddler. The task requires them to make elasticated shor ...
09-02-2024
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Series 8: Episode 4
The Great British Sewing Bee does its bit for the planet with Reduce, Reuse and Recycle week. Host Sara Pascoe invites the nine remaining home sewers to create a quilted patchwo ...
08-02-2024
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Series 8: Episode 3
The ten remaining home sewers create light and airy outfits for summer week. Patrick and Esme kick off with a pattern for a high fashion shirred midi dress with puff sleeves. Th ...
07-02-2024
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Series 8: Episode 2
The sewers take to their marks for Sports Week as host Sara Pascoe sets three new challenges. \n \nPatrick and Esme’s Pattern Challenge is a Sewing Bee first: a pair of hi ...
06-02-2024
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Series 8: Episode 1
Sara Pascoe welcomes 12 of Britain’s most talented home sewers into the sewing room, which is in an historic woollen mill on the outskirts of Leeds. Week One sees judges P ...
05-02-2024
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Celebrity Christmas Special 2022
Esme Young and Patrick Grant put four celebrities’ sewing skills to the test. Host Sara Pascoe is joined by Strictly Come Dancing's Johannes Radebe, EastEnders actor Natal ...
12-12-2023
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Series 9: Episode 9
Sara Pascoe welcomes the four semi-finalists into the sewing room as they get to work on utilitarian clothing, with a place in the final at stake.\n\nJudges Patrick Grant and Es ...
25-07-2023
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28/01/2015
We catch up with the class of 2014's amateur sewers, who have come a long way. The programme looks back at their best moments - and some they would rather forget - as they revis ...
28-01-2015
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Series 8: Episode 6
Music Week brings three different musical and sartorial genres to the Sewing Bee. Sara Pascoe kicks off the week with a pattern for the parka coat that was adopted by Mod cultur ...
12-02-2024
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Series 9: Episode 8
The quarter-final sees the five remaining sewers make garments inspired by history’s most influential fashion Icons. \n\nFor the Pattern Challenge, judges Patrick Grant an ...
19-07-2023
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Series 8: Episode 4
The Great British Sewing Bee does its bit for the planet with Reduce, Reuse and Recycle week. Host Sara Pascoe invites the nine remaining home sewers to create a quilted patchwo ...
08-02-2024
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Series 2 - Episode 2
Amateur sewers test their sewing and dressmaking skills. The contestants are tested on their ability to match and combine patterned fabric, with a challenging pleated skirt.
06-06-2014
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Series 6: Episode 6
The fashion industry is the biggest polluter of our planet besides oil, so for reduce, reuse and recycle week, all the fabric in the haberdashery is replaced with charity shop c ...
02-11-2020
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