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Episode 6

For reduce, reuse and recycle week, all the fabric in the haberdashery is replaced with charity shop clothes and soft furnishings.

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 clothes and soft furnishings. To breathe new life into this old fabric, host Joe Lycett kicks the seven remaining home sewers off with a pattern for a man鈥檚 bomber jacket, which must be pieced together from four secondhand women鈥檚 garments. Judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young are looking for precision sewing and the ability to design and create garments using attractive colour combinations.

In the transformation challenge, the sewers are tasked with turning laundry bags into stylish, wearable garments, and then have to use old knitwear to create a made-to-measure jumper dress, perfectly fitted to their model. One of the jumpers has to be brought in from home and mean something to them personally. It鈥檚 a Sewing Bee first, as the sewers have never been asked to sew with knitted fabrics before.

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59 minutes

Signed Audio described

Music Played

  • Petula Clark

    Jumble Sale

  • Alma Cogan

    Love Me Again

  • The Kinks

    Plastic Man

  • Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman, Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman

    Winter Weather (Mono Recording)

  • Alma Cogan

    Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo

  • Eugene Ormandy

    Night On Bald Mountain

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Joe Lycett
Director Justin Lennox-Bradley
Series Editor James Hedge
Series Producer Catherine Lewendon
Executive Producer Sara Ramsden
Production Manager Euan McRae

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