It's World Sewing Week,
which is why I'm joined by my
Australian co-host,
Crotch-odile Dundee.
He says, "G'day, mate."
Our five remaining sewers will have
to tackle
garments from across the globe,
and there's a place in the
semifinal at stake.
What do you say, Crotch-odile?
Should we throw another
shrimp on the barbie?
He says he finds these stereotypes
offensive.
Fair dinkums!
Welcome to
The Great British Sewing Bee.
Last time...
Look at the size of these shoulder
pads!
..it was '80s week.
That's very Madonna.
Nicole made a fabric faux pas
in the Pattern...
Gah!
God!
..before her c*ck
dress caused a stir
and she won her second Garment Of
The Week.
Nicole!
Matt was shaken...
It's been a disaster.
..but it was Therese...
# Making your mind up! #
..who bid farewell to the sewing
room.
Thank you. Thank you.
Now...
FUNNY VOICE: I wonder what this
voice is for!
..for the quarterfinals,
we go global...
I don't speak French, so I've no
idea.
..with a Pattern from the
Philippines...
Ow!
..a Provencal transformation...
..and a Spanish Made-To-Measure.
Who will flounce their way
to the semis?
I'll be doing my own little
flamenco dance.
And who's about to reach their final
destination?
Oh! You naughty machine!
No-o-o!
Oh, am I ready...? Oh, you're going
to put it on? OK, fine.
No, that's fine.
Yeah, yeah.
It's been pretty tough getting
to the quarterfinal.
You know, there's been tears.
It's surprising to have got to
where I have,
but I'm very pleased!
It's World Week this week.
I'm very intrigued.
I do love a bit of ethnic fashion,
I have to say.
My style is very vintage and
British,
although it is always nice to be
challenged with new things.
It could be absolutely anything.
Ole!
Come forward!
Willkommen.
Bienvenue.
All right, Bab?
It's World Sewing Week,
which means fabrics and patterns
from across the globe.
Not Birmingham.
That's not a separate country.
Not yet. The fight goes on.
Esme, tell us about
the Pattern Challenge.
We're off to the Philippines!
CONTESTANTS: Oh!
There you are.
Oh! Cute!
This is a terno blouse...
..and the main feature?
Butterfly sleeves.
Now, ternos are delicate and
dramatic,
so your fabric choice must
reflect this.
But, remember, it needs enough body
to create
that dramatic butterfly sleeve.
Remember, there's a place in the
semifinal at stake.
But I don't want you to feel any
pressure...
..other than the hopes and dreams of
an entire nation.
You have three and a half hours for
this challenge.
Good luck!
Your time starts now.
Ooh! That's nice, isn't it?
Traditionally, terno blouses are
made from pina,
a fabric that comes from the
pineapple plant.
Tricky to choose, eh?
Yes.
The sewers need to find a fabric
that's
equally delicate in appearance...
I might do this one.
But I think it might be a bit floppy
for the sleeves.
..but strong enough to hold its
shape.
Woo! This would make a rather nice
Goth wedding veil, wouldn't it?
Terno is Spanish for
"set of clothes",
as it began as a three-piece
ensemble when Spain colonised
the Philippines in the 16th-century
and brought new ways of dressing.
Over time, this outfit evolved into
single garments
which are still worn today.
So, a terno blouse.
I'm often turned by a blouse.
The terno, it's characterised by
these big statement
butterfly sleeves,
and that requires them
gathering quite a lot of material.
So, that needs to be done evenly.
Inside the sleeve is net
to help it keep this shape...
..but the fabric is crucial.
If they go for really drapey, soft
fabric, it's not going to work.
I mean, we don't want
the sleeve going down.
We want it sticking up.
What other elements to this are
quite tricky?
We've asked them to bind the
neckline and that needs accurate
sewing and covered buttons.
Are they quite difficult to do?
Well, they'll leave it to the last
and they could really come undone.
We're down to the
last five sewers here.
This garment needs to be sewn to
absolute perfection.
Yeah, and the sleeves are absolutely
critical.
They're called butterfly sleeves?
Have you seen a butterfly?
Well, a butterfly has wings that
spread.
Yeah, all right, mate.
No? Not having that?
I'm not having that.
Back in the day, I would have
probably seen my mum
in something like this.
These sorts of blouses would not
be out of place in Trinidad.
I know zero about Filipino clothes,
so this is an interesting challenge.
I've never heard of it.
I think the sleeves may be the
complicated bit.
Eight pieces of fabric create the
terno blouse.
Firstly, the shoulder and side seams
are sewn together,
then a strip of bias binding is
created
and attached to the neckline.
Next, the body is hemmed,
the sleeve head is gathered and sewn
into the armhole
before tulle netting is stitched
inside the sleeve.
Finally, five button holes and
covered buttons are created
and sewn in place.
Konnichiwa, Liz!
Oh, hello!
Sorry, I'm not playing along, am I?
No, no, you're absolutely fine.
If you don't speak another language,
you don't speak another language.
Only French. Do you?
Can you tell me what this fabric is
in French?
I think, actually, "tulle" might be
a French word. Tulle.
I know things are different in
different countries,
but I'm not sure they wear things
like that in the Philippines.
Well, maybe they wear a little
chemise underneath it.
Is that the plan? No.
My mannequin's just going to be
naked underneath. Really?!
Yes.
Oh, OK.
I've chosen a fabric, I think it's
organza.
It's kind of see-through,
so everything I do on the inside
will be immediately visible.
It will very stiffly hold
the puff of the sleeve.
Morning.
Morning.
Have a look at this fabric you've
chosen. You know what it is?
No.
Well, it's some kind of brocade.
Yeah.
It's got a bit of body to it,
doesn't it?
That's why I thought, for the
sleeves, that it should stand up.
Very good. Thank you.
The first thing I went for was this
quite heavily embroidered
and beaded fabric.
It's structured.
Obviously, you have to cut these
little beads off near where
you're sewing it under the machine,
which will take a little bit more
time.
But, on the flipside, I think
it just has so much more impact.
If you don't get
your fabric choice right,
you've pretty much put the first
nail in your own coffin.
And I've done that many a time!
I don't know if I've made the right
choice, to be honest.
I really don't know yet.
Let's talk about the fabric
that you've chosen.
It's got a bit of a '60s-y vibe
to it, some kind of silk crepe.
It's nice and drapey.
Have you ever made anything
like this before?
From this fabric? No.
Or this pattern, no.
I have wanted to, so...
Oh, well! ..today is the day.
And you'll definitely learn
something.
So, I'm just doing the shoulder
seams and then side seams.
Can't dilly-dally.
Let's get sewing.
You're also going with
a see-through fabric, I see.
Sheer fabric.
Cher? Sheer fabric.
Oh, not Cher, as in...?
No, not Cher! Well...
CHER IMPRESSION: Who knows just what
this voice is for.
That's...
That's my impression of Cher for
you.
With it being really sheer,
I don't think there'll be anywhere
to hide if
I don't sew it very well,
so I'm trying to just go slow and
be as neat as I can be.
For her seams, Clare's going
off-pattern,
attempting a couture finish.
I thought it would be tidier to
do a French seam at the sides.
It's a seam that is sewn twice.
You enclose the raw edge.
It's useful for garments that are
very delicate or see-through.
So, I'm just snipping all the beads
away from the seam allowance here.
It takes a bit more time,
so I'm just trying to get a move on.
But for Mark...
The shoulder, on one side, is
twisted,
so I've got to do a bit of
unpicking.
..his seams are already starting to
unravel.
The fabric's starting to fray, which
is not good news.
So, I've just attached the shoulder
seam.
Now doing the side seems.
I'm really determined to finish
this,
having not finished the last
Pattern Challenge.
JOE IMITATES A DIDGERIDOO
FAUX AUSTRALIAN ACCENT: You've had
half your time, sewers!
LIZ CHUCKLES
A blouse!
What do I do next?
Bias binding.
Bias binding is a thin strip of
fabric
used to enclose a raw edge.
I normally just go to the shop and
buy it,
it's easier, but this calls
to make it yourself,
so that's what I've done.
Found a plain, black cotton.
Have to cut it on the diagonal and
that gives it some stretch.
Have you made your own bias, Mark?
Yeah.
Yeah, I will.
I do try and follow the instructions
to what they want,
and if you deviate from that,
then that doesn't always work in
your favour.
I'm going to use the haberdashery
bias binding
to do the bias, cos that's
going to save me a lot of time.
The pattern has now got me applying
the bias binding to the neckline.
So, it has to enclose all of these
very curvy edges.
It's quite tricky, doing it around
the calves,
and kind of getting it even.
If the binding isn't sewn perfectly
flat
and precisely straight...
You can't really rush it.
You need to get it perfect width,
all the way round.
..the neckline will appear lumpy and
uneven.
I want just a nice, clean edge.
Oh, come on, you fiddly little
thing!
Went a bit wobbly, didn't it?
I think I've been a little bit
naughty
and I've just gone for the
ready-made bias binding.
If I had to do that from scratch,
it would take an eternity.
Couldn't really do it onto this
fabric, anyway.
It's just too embellished.
Oh, hello there.
Erm, I'm thinking of wearing a sheer
blouse.
Do you do back waxing?
Hang on one second.
One hour, sewers!
One hour!
I'm going to speed it up a little
bit now.
You do? OK. Can you do it within
the hour?
Brilliant. See you soon. Bye-bye!
I'm reasonably happy with how it's
sitting.
No time to think about that now,
though!
This blouse is all about the
sleeves...
..and these look like they're going
to be stonking puff sleeves.
I feel the sleeves
are going to be tricky.
Esme referred to these earlier as
"butterfly sleeves".
It's got lots of gathers at the top
of the sleeve hem.
The volume and drama of the sleeve
is all dependent on one
very fine gathering stitch.
I'm just gently
pulling on that stitch
to gather the fabric down
so that it will curl over.
The trick is not to allow your
cotton to snap
because then it's all over,
blouse ruined.
The lighter the fabric, the easier
it is to get it tangled in itself.
Trying to get the
gathers evenly spaced.
But if gathering the huge sleeve
head wasn't delicate enough...
Looks like a sleeve.
It's puffed up quite nicely.
..inserting it neatly into the
shoulder is even trickier...
It's a bit time-consuming, like,
pinning it all,
but you need to pin it.
..as the tiniest tuck could damage
the blouse's
distinctive butterfly shape.
Oh, dearie me.
It's got a mind of its own,
for sure.
I'm just being really gentle and
careful with this gathering,
especially if I've sewn over a
sequin or something,
which is entirely possible.
That's a power shoulder!
Have a quick look...
It's kind of puffy.
Oh, keep running.
The terno hit international fame
in 1965,
thanks to the Philippines'
new first lady, Imelda Marcos.
The Marcoses were
really deliberate about the way
that they conducted political
campaigns.
They identified the way that
ordinary people,
most of whom were living in poverty,
wanted to look up to something
that was very typically Filipino,
but yet also kind of glamorous.
And, in wearing the terno,
they felt that this
was the way to do it.
The dress became vital to
Imelda's image,
and she was rarely pictured wearing
anything else.
She was notoriously
demanding of her designers,
in order to figure out how it would
best flatter her own body.
She did things like
raise the sleeve length.
She changed the way the neckline
would, kind of,
flow into the butterfly sleeves.
There was one that told a story
of having to put together 17
different ternos for a trip
that was only a week long.
Her seamstresses were
starting to go blind.
They were losing their eyesight
because they were looking so hard
at these tiny stitches
they had to do!
Imelda's unmistakable image soon led
to an infamous nickname.
The fact that she's been
called the Iron Butterfly
is because she had that steely
determination
to succeed at all costs.
In 1986,
after years of corrupt rule,
their palace was stormed
by angry mobs,
and the truth of Imelda's excessive
lifestyle was revealed.
They found thousands of dresses
and hundreds of shoes,
the remnants of an empire of luxury.
For many years, the terno was
tainted by its association
with Imelda Marcos.
But, currently,
it's going through a reinvention.
It's been reclaimed by people
really enjoying the opportunity
to modernise it.
It can be something
really funky and cool to wear,
as well as something that is
absolutely unique
to the Philippine culture.
You've got half an hour, sewers!
I just need to get these sleeves
done quite quickly.
I ain't going to finish.
So, I've just attached the sleeve,
breaking two needles in the process.
Ran over a bead the first time, ran
over some sequins a second time.
I'll get there in the end.
OK, they look like sleeves...
..but they do flop over a tiny bit,
but we'll fill it out with some
tulle.
They'll just sit round the shoulder,
like that, but underneath.
Tulle will just bulk up the sleeve a
little bit more.
That looks pretty good.
I like that.
15 minutes!
It's like he's taunting us!
Don't think I'm going to have time
to put my tulle in.
I'd rather have buttons.
There are five buttons and
buttonholes.
Oh, come on!
The beads are getting stuck.
Damn it!
I've no idea how these buttons work.
I've made covered buttons before.
Oh, I don't know.
You're meant to cut a circle...
..put the little button inside and
just gather it up
around the button shank and then you
hammer it.
Ow! That was my finger.
This is the hardest part of the
whole thing.
I mean, the rest of it was easy
compared to this.
You can spend quite a bit of time
getting this done.
Looks really fernickety. Yes.
Is that a word?
It's not my favourite task.
Where's the other one gone, Joe?
What did I do with it?
What did I do with it?!
Oh, my God! It's there!
It's there.
Phew!
Oh! Oh, I'm so sorry.
Why did you turn off?
Why did you turn off...?
The buttonhole function is not
working.
I don't know if it's the fabric.
Five minutes, sewers!
Ah...!
I definitely can't do this in five
minutes.
It's not happening.
Well, it's kind of all right.
Where's my thing gone?
There we are.
I've never actually done
covered buttons before,
so I'm not really sure.
Hand-sewing these buttons on.
I'm not going to get these done in
time. Better think of a plan B.
Please, let me finish!
I think the rest of it looks OK.
It's just the buttons.
Plan B is to just sew on plain
old, everyday buttons.
I'm covering them in the same fabric
I use for the bias bindings.
I didn't realise it was quite
so involved.
One minute, sewers!
Argh! Don't panic...
Let's get those mannequins dressed!
Cut! Oh, this isn't even cutting.
It's not going to work.
LIZ GROANS
I'm going to be sending a garment
for judging with no buttons
and no buttonholes.
Oh, mine doesn't have all the
buttons on.
Annoyed that, again, I'm not
finishing.
Needles up, sewers!
That is your time!
Bring your creations forward!
Come on, pals.
Five butterfly-sleeved blouses,
terno'd out in just
three and a half hours.
But what will the judges think?
Liz, come forward.
A great choice of fabric.
This is delicate and dramatic.
Despite not getting the net
in your sleeves,
the fabric is doing all the work
and you've got that
butterfly wing shape,
but you've just got a tuck in this
sleeve, here,
which is stopping it pinging out
and being full at the front,
which is a shame because it's quite
a noticeable spot.
We've only got three buttons.
I did have five buttons.
I just couldn't get them on.
I really like that you did the black
binding to make the contrast.
One thing I would say is this
binding is not flat.
But I love the fabric.
I love that you made a statement
about putting black on it.
So, well done.
Thank you.
I think your choice
of fabric was very smart,
because it's got that stiffness that
keeps the sleeves up.
It looks delicate but also dramatic,
and that was what we asked for.
Your binding's very good
and your stitching is very flat.
Oh! I say!
French seams! And tiny French seams!
I mean, we didn't ask you to do
that. It is more work to do that.
Oh, I'm really impressed now.
You've given us covered buttons and
I think they're well lined up.
I think, Clare,
it's a fantastic piece of sewing.
I think you've made
a good choice of fabric.
The fabric is doing a lot of work
for you.
This big, voluminous butterfly
sleeve, it looks right.
It's really stable.
You've made your own binding.
It's slightly pulling here,
so it's not completely flat.
You've got all
your buttonholes done.
Two of the covered buttons.
Did you find them difficult?
Yeah.
I mean, I've never done covered
buttons before,
and doing five in ten minutes
was...was not easy.
So I've done two.
I think, overall, it's a pretty good
rendition of the terno blouse.
I do like your choice of fabric.
It seems very appropriate
for this style of top.
You gave yourself quite a task,
because, to sew it,
you have to remove the beads.
The sleeves have got all the
kind of volume that we want.
They actually are
falling very nicely.
The binding, it was an
already made binding
and it's lying very flat.
But you did have an advantage.
But we don't have any buttons
or buttonholes.
That buttonhole foot was just not
going to go through
with those beads on the fabric.
No.
It is a shame because what you've
done looks terrific.
It looks powerful.
It's got real drama.
But we can't overlook the fact that
you can't do it up.
We haven't quite got the volume
in the sleeves
that we were hoping for.
I think part of the thing is your
choice of fabric.
The fabric is just
a little bit soft.
It hasn't quite got enough
oomph to keep it up.
This binding is pretty flat...
..but the stitching's a bit wobbly.
You've gone off the edge.
You haven't given us covered
buttons.
Presumably you ran out of time.
I thought, "It's either no buttons
or those."
And you've got four out of the five
buttons on.
This challenge is all about
precision,
and we're getting to the point in
the competition where everything
needs to be absolutely just right,
and I think there's a couple of
areas where you've missed the edges.
Patrick and Esme will now rank the
blouses from last to first.
In fifth place...
..it's Mark.
That fabric didn't give you the
dramatic shoulders
that we were looking for.
In fourth place...
..is Nicole.
You gave yourself quite a lot of
problems with the beads,
but it's not finished.
Liz is in third, and Matt second.
Which means, in first place,
it's Clare.
CLAPPING
It's dramatic, it's delicate,
it's a great choice of fabric.
It's beautifully sewn.
Well done. And, Clare, I'm very
impressed with your French seams.
Wow! Well done, everyone.
We have an international treat for
you now.
Herbs from the Far East
boiled in liquid.
It's a cup of tea.
Come back for the Transformation
Challenge, but well done.
I'm very pleased.
Oh, well done, you.
Yeah! Well done!
I'm relieved
I made a good choice of fabric.
This one wanted to play ball.
I pass the questionable fabric
choice baton on to you.
There you go!
It's disappointing to present a
garment that's not quite finished,
but I quite liked my blouse.
Maybe I'll nip in now and just
finish it off.
The next port of call for our
globetrotting sewers...
Ooh!
..is the south of France!
Well, sewers,
as you can see, we've been having
our own little tea break.
Esme's been reading
my fortune with her tea leaves.
She predicts I'm going to meet a
tall, dark, handsome stranger.
I told her I've already got one
and he's going to tell us about the
Transformation Challenge.
Aw!
We'd like you to transform...
Oh!
..a Provencal tablecloth.
And we'd like you to transform one
into a garment
for a man, woman or child.
You can use complementary fabrics,
but the tablecloth is star.
I'm still in shock from Patrick's
magic trick there.
I didn't think you'd do so well!
LAUGHTER
We're going to send the judges away
now,
so they don't know whose is whose.
Off you go.
You can only use one tablecloth
or, as they say in Provence,
"un tablecloth".
You have 90 minutes for this
challenge,
and your time starts now.
ALL: Ooh!
I want one quite thick.
Think I'll take this one.
This one's circular.
Circular it is, then!
Although they can only choose one
tablecloth each...
What am I going to do with this?
..the sewers have free rein to
make any garment they like.
I might change it.
I don't think anything really drew
me to it.
I just grabbed one and I thought,
"That one'll do."
Let's go for this one.
I'm quite happy with this choice.
I like the colour.
It's nice and vibrant.
I have been to Provence!
I went to Provence last autumn.
I bought some soap, but not a
tablecloth.
So, Esme, the Provencal tablecloth.
They were originally from India. No!
They were known as indienne.
Over the years, they've developed
a very particular Provencal flavour.
With the olives, the wheat, the
cicadas...
..it's all about the south of
France.
These are quite big, so they can
make something with a lot of impact.
I'm going to be looking at the
placement of the prints.
We're at the quarterfinal stage,
now,
so I think, even in this
transformation,
I'm looking for something that's
well sewn.
If there are obvious patterns
on the garment,
I would expect it, at this point,
to be fairly well-matched.
I mean, we've left
this entirely open.
It can be a garment for a man, a
woman or a child,
which gives them plenty of scope to
let their imagination run wild.
First cut.
Oh...
The point of no return.
I've gone for this tablecloth.
It's Patrick's worst nightmare.
Purple, lavenders,
those kind of colours.
I'll make him, like, a thing
you'll just throw over your...
Like a...
I'm trying to avoid the word "cape"
because it sounds too easy.
There's a lot going on in a cape.
I don't know what to do.
I'm just draping like a madwoman.
This is just for the purposes of
sewing darts.
The challenges where I drape,
I seem to fare better than the
ones where I don't.
Hello, Clare.
Would you like a biscuit?
Oh, my word. Nice! You love a
biscuit, don't you?
Any type of...? I shouldn't have
given you a biscuit.
You're not going to be able to speak
now, are you? What you making with
your tablecloth?
Like, a little girl's dress. Oh,
lovely! With little puff sleeves.
The plan is a pair of trousers.
I'm taking inspiration from samba
images.
I'm going to work with the circle
of the tablecloth
and go with a very flared leg
with rows of alternating, coloured
ruffles at the bottom.
I'm starting off with the collar.
It's going to be a Velcro fastening
at the back.
Er, a D-ring here.
Something going around here,
maybe tie at the back,
and maybe some kind of
skirt at the bottom.
That could be a bit tighter. Oh.
There we are. Done.
Sewers, you have one hour remaining!
Shall I be Mother?
Have your tea, then!
I'm going to gather some lovely
yellows and blues
and lemons and lavenders.
This, er, round tablecloth
rather invites
a swirly sort of skirt.
I'm hoping that they'll appreciate a
little bit of pleating going on.
A little grown-on sleeve.
I'm going to make the top bit
and, if it looks good as a top,
I might just leave it as a top.
So, I'm adding a panel into the
back at the moment
so I can then gather it into a box
pleat.
I'm not pattern matching.
I just haven't really got the kind
of brain space or time
to kind of deal with that.
I might actually give this one,
like, a massively dramatic...
Ooh! Yeah!
Might tighten it up there.
Maybe it will become a dress.
Ooh! Maybe it'll become a dress!
Looks a bit saucy, this.
I know! Punky.
Wow. That is punky.
It's good going, isn't it?
Look how you've cut that lemon!
I love that. Isn't that sweet?
Now, you've got a Provence link
over here, haven't you?
Well, a French link.
So, this is my partner's family and
friends. Oh, wow!
That's the first time I ever
met everybody.
So, it was a lot of pressure. Oh,
wow!
Yeah. Did it go well?
Yeah, I think so.
Everyone liked you? I mean, I don't
speak French, so I've no idea.
No tablecloth there. No tablecloth.
Probably because you turned it into
an outfit. Yes!
Erm, I need to do things on the
bottom now.
Nah!
Got some pockets and then,
on the back,
a stripe, and now I'm going to make
a collar.
It's like an outdoors housecoat.
It's cold, I think, "Urgh! I've got
to put the bins out
"or they won't be collected."
And so you think, "Oh, I'll just go
and get my...my tablecloth coat."
I actually quite like it as a dress.
So it's got this gigantic sleeve,
which I think, hopefully, shows
some of the tablecloth design off.
I have made a bodice...
..for my freakish, armless child.
Ooh! sh**t!
I've sewn the wrong legs together.
So, I've not made a pair of
trousers.
I've done a bad job of doing a
skirt, basically.
Sewers! You have half an hour!
I'm going to gather this massive
length of skirt
on to the bodice. Getting there.
So, that's my mahoosive
wizard's sleeve.
OK, that's looking more
trouser-y now.
Let's try that again.
Ugh! Not quite pattern-matched.
I've added on some sleeves and I've
also just now
put in some buttonholes.
I chose a little flower button,
extra bits and pieces.
So, I'm going for this
burgundy sort of trim.
You know when you think,
like, less could be more?
Just adding some D-rings in the
side of my skirt
to match the top.
I need a blue to edge the bottom.
Oh, I see, OK.
Go to the shiny section!
Shiny things!
Nicole? Yep.
Will this do?
Let me see.
No. Not quite right?
It's not quite right, OK.
Madames and monsieurs...
..dix minutes.
What's that mean?
You've got ten minutes, sewers!
Ah!
I understood that.
I'm now doing the kind of ruffled
layers.
In the interest of time,
I'm just sort of hand ruching
this,
so it's not going to be nice,
even gathers.
I'm feeding some elastic round the
sleeve to make it puff.
It kind of looks like a big kimono,
doesn't it?
So I might make a massive overbelt.
So, like that.
Let's go for it.
Let's do it.
I need to put a zip in
and put the D-rings on.
Ooh, big, ugly buttons.
That's what we need.
Wow, that is a cool sleeve,
isn't it?
It's designed for someone
with a massive right arm. Yes.
I know someone like that
in Birmingham, actually. Do you?
They'll be thrilled.
I'm going to see if I can make
a little white peasant apron.
Might not have it done in time.
My God, there's so much
leg to get around here. It's crazy.
Two minutes, sewers! Get your
garments on your mannequins!
Chop, chop, chop, chop, chop!
I don't know if I'll
get the buttons on, but...
Oh, you naughty machine!
Why have you unthreaded yourself?
It doesn't meet at the top
very well.
Let's see how this fits.
One minute, sewers! Final touches.
Right, come on.
Come on. Give it up.
I'm sure there's probably an easier
way I could have done all this.
Oh, no! Needles up!
That is your time.
Bring your tablecloths forward,
and let's see who's a la mode,
and who's a la merde.
Saucy, saucy!
Look at that.
HE GIGGLES
Like a kimono dress.
I'm resigned to it now.
MUSIC: Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
by Edith Piaf
# Non, rien de rien
# Non, je ne regrette rien #
Five Provencal tablecloths,
transformed with
a touch of va-va-voom.
MUSIC CONTINUES
Ooh!
That is quite something.
The judges have no idea
whose is whose.
Oh, it's trousers.
So it is. Yes.
Definitely a circular table cloth.
They've put frills on it.
I really like the frill.
Very simple. It's just two colours.
I mean, I had no idea
that it was trousers... No, yes.
..when I first saw it.
Obviously, you can see now
there's a seam.
It's a little bit of a shame
that they haven't... Yes, I agree.
..managed to line it up
at the front.
I think somebody had fun
on the stand,
pinning and cutting through.
I mean, I like that we've got this
long, central panel down the middle
and then all these others come
cascading through with these pleats.
This is the pattern. Yeah.
So they've chopped through here...
Into the sleeve.
..to turn it into the sleeve. Yeah.
It's almost like a kimono, isn't it?
And with that belt. I love it.
Well, it's a jacket.
I mean, I don't love purple,
but, I mean, it works.
They did it especially for you.
Yeah.
We've got a buttonhole
but no button.
It looks easy, it looks comfortable,
there's something slightly
Japanese about it.
I mean, again, it's, you know,
square sleeves, square front,
boxy shape. I think it's good. Yep.
It's a very dramatic transformation
from the tablecloth. Yes.
I mean, it's a great leap
of imagination.
And they've really thought about
this piece over the bust.
Yes, so it's... It's the strip.
..it's the same strip... Yes.
..that's been used and gathered.
I mean, it's a very clever use
of the D-ring.
They've been thoughtful
about cutting a strip here...
Yeah, absolutely.
..that is this little strip. Yep.
These edges are a bit raw,
but then it is...
..it's got a slightly sort of
punky feel to it.
You know, this started
with a tablecloth!
To create an entire dress
with this apron at the front
is incredibly well done in the time.
I agree with you, Patrick.
They've really thought where
they're going to place the pattern.
They made a band here,
then this is another bit
of the tablecloth. Yep. This bit.
And then the sleeves, paisley.
I mean, there's the odd little bit
that's slightly come away,
but they've bound the neckline. Yep.
They've bound this keyhole
at the back.
We've got a Rouleau loop
and a button.
I mean, it's extraordinary.
Esme and Patrick will now rank
the garments from last to first.
In a very, very close-run thing,
in fifth place,
it's the culottes. Nicole.
It was the most like
a tablecloth still,
but it's a great transformation.
In fourth place is the one
with the purple collar and pockets.
Mark.
It was a really difficult decision.
Just isn't using the pattern
quite as much as the others.
In third place is the beach set
on the end. Matt. Oh!
Very clever use of the fabric,
the different elements
within the border,
and it's just a very
radical transformation.
Very well done. Thank you.
Right. In second place
is the kimono. Liz.
It's a really good use
of the tablecloth,
and it's really, really dramatic.
Well done.
Which means our winner is...
Claire.
APPLAUSE
It was so beautifully
thought through,
the way you've used
the different elements
to create the different parts
of the garment,
and it was a very,
very good piece of sewing.
I'm feeling amazed and pleased,
obviously.
I said it's always when I drape,
I do better, so there we go.
I'm not sure anyone is going to
convince Patrick to like purple,
although I think his socks
look a little bit purple-y.
I don't like to tell him in case
he takes them off straight away.
I came fifth in the first round
and then fourth.
Someone's got to go home,
and I've done the best I can,
so it could all rest on what
happens tomorrow.
# When it's spring again
# I'll bring again
Tulips from Amsterdam... #
Just one garment stands between the
sewers and a place in the semifinal.
Who's standing out? Claire.
She got first in the Transformation
and first with
the Pattern Challenge,
so she's right at the top.
Mark was bottom in the Pattern,
and fourth in the Transformation.
In the Pattern Challenge,
he chose the wrong fabric.
It simply sort of
boiled down to that.
But Nicole also struggled, again,
partly due to fabric choice.
Nicole and Mark potentially
in danger this week.
What do they need to do
in the Made-to-Measure?
This is for a place
in the semifinal,
so it not only needs
to be brilliantly sewn,
it needs to have huge ambition.
I mean, the Made-to-Measure
is about delivering something
with real oomph.
It has to be special.
Well, as they say
in Papua New Guinea, "Great."
There's a lot of
English speakers there.
PATRICK LAUGHS
Hello!
For their final international
challenge... How are you?
..the mannequins have been exchanged
for the sewers' real-life models.
You look great. I love this.
Do you like it? Yeah.
Give me a spin. Oh!
Oh, yeah!
Like Zorro. Yeah!
Welcome back, sewers.
Welcome, models.
It is time for the
Made-to-Measure Challenge,
and the judges this week
would like you to make
a flamenco-inspired skirt.
Now, flamenco, of course,
comes from southern Spain,
so they'd like you to make the
equivalent of a delicious paella,
as opposed to some pi-le of rubbish.
LAUGHTER
You have five and a half hours for
this challenge,
and your time starts now.
Quick!
Everybody rush!
Right, then.
The sewers have been able
to practise their skirts at home...
I'm just going to see how
this looks.
If you hold that there...
..but now they'll need to adjust
their measurements to their
models...
Might be a tiny bit big.
..if they're to achieve the
traditionally figure-hugging
flamenco fit.
With the skirt last week,
it didn't fit around the lower bum.
Fingers crossed, I get it right
this time.
Flamenco is a traditional
Spanish dance.
And you see, like, the really stern
and severe looking ladies
with their massive flamboyant
skirts.
Looks awesome, actually.
I'd give it a go.
I've certainly never danced
flamenco.
It seems like a very dramatic dance,
lots of swirling of skirts
and stamping of feet and
clapping of hands.
If this doesn't go well,
I'll be stamping all over the place.
I'll be doing my own little
flamenco dance.
Flamenco dresses were first worn
in Seville in the late 19th century
and became the regional
dress of Andalusia.
Today, it's often worn as
just a skirt,
but the iconic design
remains the same -
hugging tightly over the
waist and hips,
with multiple ruffles
at the hem.
Madre y Papa, tell me, why a
flamenco-inspired skirt?
Flamenco skirts were traditionally
multiple colours put together
in a way that created
contrast and drama.
This kind of skirt with frills is
very, very fashionable at the
moment. It's got to be something
that people might want to wear.
It's got ruffles.
It's down to the floor,
but usually fitted at the waist.
So we expect the fit to be absolute
perfection over the waist,
hips and seat.
This challenge is about creating
something really dramatic.
It's saying something about
who they are in this garment.
So, this is for a place
in the semifinal.
There's a lot riding on this, right?
Yeah. Absolutely.
They have to do something
really special.
Very well made and fabulous.
So, I'm just cutting out
a few of my pieces,
but I didn't want to go down a
traditional route,
so I've created my own design,
brought it up to date,
using scuba fabric, which is,
you know, unusual fabric
for a flamenco dress.
Got a good stretch to it.
It's all very tight-fitted,
and that bottom, it just...
Pfft! ..flares out,
so it's quite dramatic.
After problems fitting last week,
Matt's hoping his stretchy scuba
fabric will tightly hug the body
and help hold the shape
of his dramatic red and mustard
side flounces.
This is going to be quite heavy...
Yep. ..if you feel it here.
I know. That's one of my worries.
It's a wider waistband than...
How deep?
From under the bust. Oh, wow.
And are you interfacing it?
No, I wasn't going to interface.
And you think that waistband
will hold everything?
Might need a pair of braces, but...
LAUGHTER
Maybe! Hopefully not!
And a bit of goodwill. Yeah.
Matt's not the only sewer
who's made a weighty decision.
It's quite thick material, this,
isn't it?
It is. It's curtain fabric.
Is it?! Yep. I was going to say it
looks slightly curtain-y. Yeah.
Why did you choose that?
The flamenco dancers,
there's a lot of very controlled
stuff, so the slicked-back hair
and controlled movements.
And then suddenly there's
the stamping of the feet
and the swirling of the skirt,
so I wanted to use a fabric
that looked quite stiff and formal.
It's almost a transformation
challenge.
You've turned some curtains
into a flamenco. Yeah.
Going all Gone With the Wind.
Clare's formal curtain skirt hangs
from a boned high waistband.
She's hoping her knee-high ruffle
will be given extra volume
from some colourful netting.
If I make progress with the skirt,
I might put some of this underneath.
Oooooooh!
OK! Hello!
This is risky business. Yes.
Doesn't really matter, though,
does it,
because you're winning this week.
I...
You could literally just stop now,
go to the pub.
Unlike Clare,
Nicole can't afford to relax.
I'm going proper "World"
with the flamenco skirt.
Real celebration of cultures.
It's a celebration of print,
of colour.
You're seeing all of Nicole,
all in one skirt.
For her global celebration,
Nicole's clashing two African wax
print fabrics -
one for the main skirt, the other
for a pair of huge tiered ruffles.
She's also planning to use
ribbons and trims
to accentuate a fitted waist
and 15 metres of hem.
I've got this ribbon trim that I
might put along the top
of the waistband, just to...
You know. OK.
And the binding's going all
the way round?
All the way round each ruffle. Wow.
I mean, it is very you, isn't it?
Having all of this colour
and pattern and a bit of gold and
a bit of sparkle... Yeah, mm-hm.
A lot to do.
Do you know, the flamenco woman
is my favourite emoji?
I use it all the time.
On a Friday.
I can very much imagine that.
"Are we going for drinks and a
dance?" Flamenco woman six times.
LAUGHTER
OK, so I think I'm done cutting out.
And then I'm ready to sew.
So, first I'm going to make
the main skirt.
My skirt, probably unsurprisingly,
I've taken inspiration from
Bram Stoker's Dracula,
and I've always wanted
to recreate the red dress.
It's just so '90s.
It's just like the very epitome
of, like, '90s Gothic films.
Liz's Dracula-inspired flamenco
skirt is tightly fitted
over the waist and hips.
It's high-low hem is finished off
with three full ruffles.
How do you get in and out
of this skirt?
So, we have a waistband
and an invisible zip.
And very fitted all the way
over the hips and up?
Very, very fitted, yes. OK.
Extremely fitted.
One more seam and then I'm going to
fit on you again.
Right. Let's try this on.
Just touch your butt for a bit.
The flamenco skirt's iconic shape
is dependent on a tight fit
over the waist, seat and hips.
Yeah, needs to be much tighter,
I think.
But while the others make
essential adjustments...
It's not quite hugging her hips the
way that it should.
I'm just going to keep adjusting it
until I get a good fit.
Oh, that's fine.
..Mark's fitting is finished!
Right, let's unpin you.
There isn't actually an awful
lot of fitting to do.
Because it's of the style of skirt,
it just needs to fit
at the waist, chiefly.
So I'd rather keep it simpler
and do it well,
rather than be in a rush.
Mark aims to flounce his way
out of trouble with a wrap skirt,
finished with a tie at the waist
and one extra-long ruffle made
from several panels.
It has these huge flounces
that go all around the bottom.
It sort of sweeps up
towards the front.
So the frills,
are they all attached together?
I'll attach them together
to make one long flounce. OK.
And one enormous long snake.
Yeah. Oh, right. OK.
And then I'll hem
the wretched thing.
Yeah, that's a lot of hemming
isn't it? Mm. Certainly is.
Well, we'll be inspecting
your hemming - for sure.
Sewers, you've had half your time.
What?
Oh, you said "flamenco" skirt!
I'm assembling my waistband.
With a mountain of fabric
making up their skirts,
the waistband is crucial.
It will support the weight
of the skirt.
I'm just going to put a little bit
of boning in.
It's got to have interfacing in it,
just to give it a bit of
extra stability.
I think if you like wiggling about
all over the place,
you don't want your skirt to fall
down, do you?
It's not Friday night in Boro!
But not everyone's adding
extra support.
That's OK.
It needs to be tight to hold
up the rest of the skirt.
Doing the waistband.
It's quite tricky,
especially with this
stretchy fabric.
I don't want to stretch it and then
it goes kind of out of shape,
so I've got to be a little bit
careful about that.
There we go. Waistband - done!
Zip time!
Gone for a concealed zip.
Hopefully...
..it'll be concealed!
I'm going to put my zip into
the centre back.
So that's done, because that's
one of the tricky bits.
I've put an invisible zip
in to my skirt.
Have you? Yes. Can I see it?
Yes. Probably not!
It's actually quite invisible.
Where is it?
Where's the zip, Liz?
Oh, hang on. Hang on.
That's good sewing! Thanks!
But Clare's yet to move
on to her fastening.
I'm taking a long time
over the pencil skirt bit.
I want it to fit well.
I've now got to work on the
difficult bits,
which is all these
wretched flounces.
The drama the judges are
expecting...
I'll start with some ruffles.
..must be achieved by
the skirt's flounces.
Got these big circular pieces,
which need to be attached
onto the bottom and that's what's
going to take the time.
It's all about circles.
I'm cutting out four red circles
and joining them all together,
so there's a big long ruffle
that goes all the way round.
I am sewing all these
flounce pieces,
so that I have circle...
..flounces!
Rather than making a circle,
Nicole's giving her ruffles
maximum impact by creating a
dynamic shape.
The one I've made is constructed
from circles
that have all been put together.
So you get maximum wave
but with minimum bulk at the top.
So it's obviously a bit more
fiddly to sew.
But for Matt...
I think these are the biggest
ruffles in the room.
..it's size that matters.
This is only half of one side.
So, two of these...
Half of one side?! Yeah.
Two of these are going
into the side.
How much fabric have you got?!
A lot.
A whole haberdashery!
My skirt currently consists
of a pencil skirt
and nothing more.
There are no ruffles.
The plan, as always, is to keep
sewing until the time runs out.
Those that have ruffles face
the challenge of inserting them
into their skirt.
It's hard to attach a circle
to a circle.
And it is quite tricky
to try not to stretch it
as you're sewing it on a curve.
I've clipped into the seam allowance
and that just helps it to spread
that bit further.
It makes a big, big difference
because the clipped flounce
now matches the bottom of the
hem exactly.
I think everyone's just madly
concentrating.
I'd love to know what Clare's doing,
because I think she was
having trouble.
I'm confident that my skirt
will have a flounce of some form.
Whether it is quite the form
I had in mind when I planned it,
I don't think.
Sewers, you have...
BEATS OUT A RUDIMENTARY RHYTHM
DISCORDANT STRUM
..30 minutes.
What?!
Even if the sewers have managed
to attach their flounces...
MATT SIGHS
..they now have masses of
fabric to hem.
I've got to hem all of
these different pieces.
Miles of them.
Scuba fabric doesn't fray, so I
could leave it with a visible edge,
but I don't think they'll be too
impressed with that.
So I just thought I'd do a rolled
hem on the overlocker.
It's going remarkably quickly.
I don't think I've made
it as quickly before.
I'm progressing slowly.
I am attaching my flounce.
I've just spent ages trying to
distribute it,
roughly symmetrically.
That is essentially the skirt.
I've finished.
Finished, everyone.
Getting there.
MATT SIGHS
More circles?
Second flounce.
The skirt isn't a complicated
design,
so I need to do something else,
so I'm going to make another
flounce.
So now I'm going to hem the flounce.
As the saying says,
"I may be some time."
I'm now adding the trim on to it
to finish the bottom of the
first ruffle.
Talk about going on forever!
Oh, my God!
Very, very conscious of finishing.
That's my number one goal.
But nearly there. Very nearly there.
A clear motorway. I've got my foot
to the floor.
I've got miles
and miles of hem ahead of me.
Right, well, Clare...
And she's now just got to finish
hemming it all.
Has she got the tulle on yet?
No, she hasn't.
I mean, I really do hope
she gets that finished... So do I.
..cps I think her outfit
will have so much more impact.
There's just, like, miles and miles
and miles of this ruffle.
It's crazy. Just when you think,
like, OK, this must be the end now,
it's like, no!
And I really want to get to the trim
at the top of the waistline,
actually, that ribbon I was
going to attach.
If she think she's going to have
time to get the waistband on,
it will certainly add a little
something to it. Yes.
Right, Mark.
So he's now sewing a second flounce,
which suggests he's just been a bit
under-ambitious,
but if the flounces are beautiful
and works in every other way,
then we shall see.
Every time I look, I'm like,
I must be close now.
And it's like, no!
Miles of hem.
Oh, shh...
I've run out of trim!
I'll use this.
It's not exactly the same.
Sewers, you have
ten minutes remaining. What?!
Ten minutes, Nicole.
In the last ten minutes, you just
end up with your head down,
just frantically trying to get
your own life sorted out.
Just the usual race against
the clock now.
I want to get that ribbon on.
Rushing, rushing.
Argh!
Just as I was coming to the end,
it's unthreaded.
HE CHUCKLES
Wow. I just feel like it's
never-ending! Goodness me.
Five minutes, sewers! Final touches.
I'm not going to have time
to do to the tulle underlay.
I hope it's all level. I haven't
really got time to check it
or go back and change it.
I'm going to put my ribbon on.
I might be pleased if it stays on.
At the moment I'm not even sure if
I'm attaching it on to the skirt!
I might be stitching it
on to thin air. Who knows?
Should be OK.
I'm just sort of rushing a bit.
Oh, look, I am stitching it
on to thin air!
Nothing to see here!
Nothing to see.
All right. I'm going to have to
press it.
Finished! Oh, am I ready...?
Oh, you're going to put it on?
OK, fine. No, that's fine!
This waistband's falling down a
little bit.
Have mercy!
No-o-o-o-o!
Needles up, that is your time.
NICOLE SIGHS
All right, there you go, hon.
It's time to get ready
for the catwalk.
Woo! Ole!
MUSIC: Sway by
Dean Martin
Five flamenco skirts made
in just five and a half hours.
# When marimba rhythms
start to play
# Dance with me
# Make me sway
# Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore
# Hold me close, sway me more
# Like a flower bending
in the breeze
# Bend with me
# Sway with me... #
I absolutely love your choice
of fabrics.
I think it looks fantastic.
I love the colour of it.
If we hadn't known,
we could have guessed which was
yours, don't you think?
It's possible!
Putting this binding on the end
has really helped the shape
of the flounce.
I love that little gold
sparkly edge to it.
Oh, hang on.
This trim is different to this trim.
This is shinier than that. Yeah.
I'd miscalculated how much
of the trim I needed.
It was twinkling at me.
I think the fit looks
great around the waist.
I'm sad we didn't get that strip
on the waistband.
I think it would have just added
another little tiny ratchet up.
But it's a fantastic rendition
of this flamenco-inspired skirt,
so very well done.
Thank you.
Just lift up the waistband
a little bit. Thank you.
I think it moves very nicely.
Obviously quite a kind of literal
Spanish interpretation.
But it has got drama and I like the
combination of colour, actually.
This is a sort of
neoprene-y fabric,
so obviously the stretch is doing
quite a bit of the work
in keeping it fitted.
If it was me, I would have
interfaced the waist
to keep it up, because it
had fallen down, hadn't it?
Because you pulled it up.
Your zip is not invisible.
I can see quite a lot of tape
all the way down.
Why have you done such a long zip?
I don't know.
I mean, why have you done
any zip at all?
You could have probably
just slipped it on.
Your flounces - yards and yards
of rolled hem on that overlocker.
You've just not quite gone
all the way to the end.
I think this was a relatively
simple garment,
so at this point I think
we would expect absolute perfection
on the sewing.
When I saw this fabric on the table,
I really liked it,
but now it looks a bit
like a curtain.
I like that you've made
this high-waisted waistband.
Oh, and you did put the bones in.
Oh, well done!
But it looks like a little bit
needs to come out.
I agree with Esme.
I think it's too big. I think it
needs to be much more fitted
around the waist and over the seat.
Without this being neater, we don't
get the full sense of drama.
The flounce, it's really nice and
full, which I like.
Your hem's a little bit wobbly.
Did you manage to get the net in?
I didn't.
It's a shame, because I think it
would have made it have more drama
and also less like a curtain.
# Ole!
# The magic dance is the
cheeky flamenco
# The magic dance is the
cheeky flamenco... #
First impressions, it's very
striking.
I like very much the combination
of the red and the grey.
The zip isn't perfectly inserted
and we've got a bit of a hole
at the top there.
I think you've handled those layers
very nicely.
They look delicate.
They move nicely.
I think it's a little bit loose.
You know, there's not an awful lot
of fitting that needs to be done
in this. It looks too big.
It does have drama.
But it's also...
I could see somebody wearing it to
go out of an evening.
It's very you.
# Cada dia te quiero mas
# Djobi djobi djobi djoba
# Cada dia te quiero mas
# Djobi djobi djobi djoba... #
It's a vibrant choice.
It moves so nicely.
I mean, I think the weight works
well.
It's obviously easier to fit a
wrap skirt
than it is to fit a fitted skirt.
So you've made your life
relatively straightforward there.
An awful lot of hemming,
all the way around.
What looks like about
seven and a half miles of hem.
This bit here slightly troubles me.
You've pinned it on, sewn it and
just turned it back on itself.
What it means is we've got a raw
edge here, which occasionally
we're seeing when it's moving,
which I think looks a little untidy.
I like this front one because
we've got what I call a cascade,
but somehow it doesn't quite work
because we can see the inside.
I mean, I'm very glad you put
that second... Yes, yeah.
..layer on, because I think without
it, it would have been too simple.
Do you know, I really don't know
if I've done enough
to get through to the semifinal.
I've made a good skirt and
that's what I set out to do.
I think that went as well
as could be expected.
I was relieved that I managed to
finish it into a completed garment.
I completely recognise that
the waistband was ill-fitting.
That went all right, didn't it?
Even after all the
last-minute panic.
I'm really thrilled
that I chose the fabrics I did,
and when I saw it on Linda, it was
almost everything
I had seen in my mind,
so I'm really proud of it.
So, it's World Sewing Week.
Who's on top of the world?
Well, there were two fantastic
Transformations yesterday.
I loved Clare's.
So impressive to create
all of that in 90 minutes.
And I love Liz's.
It was a really clever use
of the tablecloth.
So, could those be in the running
for Garment of the Week?
Clare's little girl's dress
definitely deserves to be
in contention.
There's one other that really stood
out - Nicole's Made-to-Measure,
which was an absolute stunner.
She's given us far more than a
flamenco skirt.
This is vibrant, modern...
And this kind of fabric,
at the moment,
is really, really fashionable.
Who might be going home?
Mark's Made-to-Measure was OK.
It was a wrap skirt,
so easier to fit.
Another one that was just a bit
underwhelming was Matt's.
I think he would have been better
off interfacing this waistband.
This Made-to-Measure is sufficiently
poor to put Matt in trouble.
Well, have you decided?
Yeah, I think I have.
I've decided, too.
Well, someone's going to be
saying, "Merci",
and someone's going to be saying,
"Das ist nicht so gut!"
OK, g*ng, you know the drill
by now.
We've got to do two things -
something nice,
something not nice.
Let's start with the nice thing.
Patrick, tell us, who has won
Garment of the Week?
Our Garment of the Week
this week is...
..Nicole! Once again.
APPLAUSE
This really is becoming a habit,
but it was such a wonderful,
joyous piece of sewing.
The sort of perfect embodiment
of International Week.
It was wonderful,
so really well done. Thank you.
Now for the not nice thing.
You have all done incredibly well,
but the judges do have to send
somebody home.
And I can reveal
that that person is...
..Mark.
Aw, Mark!
Group hug.
There's few enough of us
that we can!
It's been an utter joy.
And I'm probably going to get upset
because my mum would be
proud as well.
You all right? Yeah.
I think the Sewing Bee's
definitely given me confidence -
confidence in myself,
in what I can do.
If I can do this,
I think I can do anything.
We will miss you, for sure.
I am feeling so gutted
about Mark going.
He was a real pleasure
to be around, to chat to,
to sew with.
Going to really miss him, big time.
I've really enjoyed having you here.
Thank you.
It's been... Look, she's all teary!
LAUGHTER
Aw! Isn't she cute?
LAUGHTER
I'm in the semifinal!
I can't believe it!
Um, I never thought I'd
get this far. Really didn't.
I am the last man standing as well,
so I'm doing it for the men
sewers out there now.
Next time...
Here's Joey!
..it's the semifinal...
Boots are off. Come on.
..and we're off to the movies...
Step, toe... Oh, stop it!
..step, toe...
..as the sewers battle a bombshell
'50s Pattern...
Oooh!
..an out-of-this-world
Transformation...
Oh, really?!
..and get in a flap... Eek!
..in the Made-to-Measure.
Who'll take one step closer to a
Hollywood ending...
SHE GASPS
Oh!
..and whose Grand Final dreams
will be dashed?
It's not that bad, is it?
It's pretty bad.
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06x08 - Episode 8
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Amateur sewers take on challenges as they compete to be named Britain's best home sewer.
Amateur sewers take on challenges as they compete to be named Britain's best home sewer.