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Spotted on the Sewing Bee


Series 5 - Episode 1 - Cotton Week

Last night saw the highly anticipated return of The Great British Sewing Bee on BBC 2. With 10 new contestants and new presenter Joe Lycett, the sewing community has been all a-buzz with the excitement about what the challenges will be, what innuendos Esme will come out with and Patrick Grant-in general!

Image sourced from the Radio Times.

As I avidly tuned in at the later time of 9pm my eyes were glued to the screen!

I loved all the challenges for the theme of 'cotton' this week! The pattern challenge saw the new sewists make a fitted wiggle dress, the alteration challenge saw them cut up old denim garments to make a brand new one and the showstopper challenge featured jumpsuits.

Being the eagle eye that I am, I couldn't help but notice some familiar fabrics and sewing supplies on the cutting tables and in the haberdashery so if you fancy sewing like the 'new-bees' here are my finds.....

Mark your darts

There are so many different ways to mark darts. Sheila used carbon paper and a toothed tracing wheel to mark hers.

Have a wiggle

Janet used a Liberty stretch cotton gaberdine to make her wiggle dress. The Tilly and the Buttons Etta dress is a perfect pairing to have a good wiggle in!

Sew like a pro

I was delighted to spot the same Prym magnetic pin cushions that we use in our sewing studio, in fact I was delighted to see Prym being used in general. I think their haberdashery is the best quality!

And talking of good quality I even spotted that they were using gutermann thread - yay!

Thinking of finally making use of those old jeans and doing a bit of up cycling? Just make sure you pop a denim needle in the machine.

Make a jumpsuit

Fancy making a jumpsuit for yourself? Here are my top pattern picks from our indie sewing pattern range.

Bring on week 2! I can't wait!

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Tips on how to store and save your files and videos

There are a number of ways that you can access your files and videos for easy reference in the future. 

In your email inbox
We recommend creating a folder in your inbox to file the order confirmation email so that you can easily locate it in your inbox in the future. This is one way to be able to easily find your videos in your own inbox.

If you have accidentally deleted an order confirmation email and would like it to be resent to your inbox, please email us info@guthrie-ghani.co.uk and we can manually resend it to you. 

A saved playlist on Youtube

When you view a Hints and Tips video on Youtube, and are logged into the Youtube platform, you can save this video to your own playlist.

This playlist can be set to be a private playlist that you can view and all of the videos you have access to as part of a Sewing Society Kit or you have purchased as a stand alone video can be saved together here. 

Create a playlist

To create a playlist when you are logged into Youtube, click the three dots icon that is under the video next to the share button. A menu will appear, click on save.

Add to Playlist

A window will pop up with a list of all of your play lists (if you have any) as well as an option to + New playlist. Click on this button.

Private Playlist

Type in the name of your play list, here I’ve called mine Sewing Society Top Tips videos and I’ve set it to private, so only I will be able to view it. Then click on the ‘create’ button.

You can view your playlists and the videos saved within them by clicking on the playlist tab of your youtube profile.

Storing on your device or laptop

You can download the pdf files and save them to your computer or device. You may want to create an electronic filing system for all of your sewing pattern pdf folders. Then within that folder, have different folders for the sewing patterns you own. If you own a lot of PDF files you may want to organise them by sewing pattern company. 

Saving files to a device or computer relies on that computer or device always being accessible and in working order.

Saving to a google drive or cloud storage

You may have access to a google drive or another form of cloud storage such as dropbox that sits on the internet where you can save and store files. This works in the same way as sorting them on a device or computer but when they sit ‘in the cloud’ on the internet it means you can access them from any device as long as you have the login to that ‘cloud’ or drive. 

Within the account area on the g&g website

Your files and videos will be stored under your g&g account, within the order that you originally placed for the files and videos. These can be accessed at any time and the links do not expire. You can navigate to the files and videos by using the steps outlined above. 

We can also recommend that you may wish to make a note in a sewing note book or other other note book that you have of the order numbers that contain your digital files or links.

We hope these tips will help you to easily access the resources you have more easily and as always the g&g team are more than happy to help if you need any assistance at all in locating a specific order or files. Please do reach out to us by email info@guthrie-ghani.co.uk 

Happy Sewing!
The g&g team