NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Children's Clothes
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/12/2015
Amateur sewers test their sewing and dressmaking skills. The nine remaining amateur sewers are tested on their ability to make clothes on a miniature scale.
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#2 - 1950's Week
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/19/2015
Amateur sewers test their sewing and dressmaking skills. Claudia Winkleman takes the eight sewers back in time to the 1950s, when home sewing was at its height.
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#3 - Semifinal: Tricky Fabrics
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/5/2015
Amateur sewers test their sewing and dressmaking skills. It's the semi-final, and the five remaining sewers take on a set of tasks working with tricky and technical fabrics.
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#4 - Final
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/12/2015
The competition reaches its conclusion as the three finalists enter the sewing room for the very last time, with the judges looking for cutting-edge designs.
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#5 - Children's Clothes
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 5/23/2016
Nine amateur sewers return, ready to show judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young that they can make beautiful clothes on a miniature scale. Claudia Winkleman sets the sewers three challenges, each designed to test different fabric handling skills on children's clothing.
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#6 - Lingerie
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 5/30/2016
Eight sewers return to the sewing room to take on delicate lingerie. The three demanding challenges require the sewers to work with the fiddliest of pattern pieces and the most delicate fabric. First they follow a pattern for a bra which proves testing for even the most dextrous of sewers, requiring precision engineering and some of the smallest pattern pieces ever seen in the sewing room.
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#7 - International
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 6/6/2016
Patrick and Esme set the seven remaining sewers the challenge of tackling techniques and garment styles from other cultures and continents. First up, they face a fiendishly hard-to-follow pattern for a Chinese Qipao-style top. This complex garment has an asymmetrical neckline, fiddly zip insertion and is made in a fabric that frays - not a challenge for the faint-hearted.
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#8 - 1960s
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 6/13/2016
This week the sewing room is transported back to the 1960s as the six remaining sewers revive vintage garments, take on time-honoured techniques and wrestle with antique equipment in an attempt to show Patrick and Esme they deserve a place in the quarter-finals.
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#9 - Activewear
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 6/20/2016
It's the quarter-final, and the five remaining sewers sweat it out over activewear creating complex, hard-wearing garments from the most technical of fabrics. For the pattern challenge, Patrick Grant and Esme Young ask them to make a man's Lycra cycling top, which requires expert handling of a fabric that stretches in all directions and a complex zip insertion that tests their patience.
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#10 - Puzzling Patterns
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 6/27/2016
It's the semi-final with just four sewers left to battle it out to for a place in the final. All that stands in the way are three challenges designed by judges, Patrick Grant and Esme Young. This week they want to test the sewers' knowledge of complex patterns and pattern cutting. For the Pattern Challenge, the sewers are tasked with making an asymmetric yoked skirt inspired by modern Japanese pattern cutting.
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#11 - Evening Wear
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 7/4/2016
It's the grand final, and having made it through seven weeks of tough sewing challenges, the three finalists fight it out for the title of Britain's best amateur sewer; First, they must create three pieces of evening wear to impress the judges.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - International Week
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 5/5/2021
It is International Week on the sewing bee and the nine remaining sewers make Breton tops. transform sarongs into a new garment and for their final challenge take inspiration from the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Winter Week
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 5/26/2021
Joe Lycett hosts as temperatures drop and winter hits the sewing room, with challenges themed around keeping warm and adding sparkle to the coldest months of the year.Patrick and Esme's Pattern Challenge this week is a man's flannel shirt. The sewers must create cuffs and collars, challenging both their construction technique and precise sewing skills.The sewers wrap up warm for the Transformation, turning old scarves into a new wearable garment in a mere 90 minutes.Finally, in the Made to Measure, they are asked to make a festive winter party dress. Working with tricky-to-handle fabrics, including velvets and sequins, each must create a perfect fit for their model. Who will cheer the judges' spirits and win Garment of the Week, and who will be sent out into the cold?
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6.7/106 votesLoading...#14 - Episode 9
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 6/22/2022
For a place in the final, the sewers follow the pattern for kimono-inspired dress, they mend old denim using Japanese techniques, and they create an outfit using folding and pleating.
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7.2/106 votesLoading...#15 - Episode #8.10
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 6/29/2022
It's Party Week, and the finalists must make an iconic stretchy dress, use their old scraps to make an outfit and fit red-carpet worthy jumpsuits before one is crowned the series winner.
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7.4/1011 votesLoading...#16 - Classics With A Twist
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 5/24/2023
Twelve brand new sewers follow the pattern for a twist top, transform office wear and create cut-out, made-to-measure dresses
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7.6/108 votesLoading...#17 - Episode 8
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 6/15/2022
The quarter-finalists go back to the 1930s to make women’s sailor trousers. They also turn men’s shirts into 1930s blouses and fit glamorous bias-cut evening gowns.
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7.6/1011 votesLoading...#18 - West Africa
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 6/7/2023
The sewers celebrate west Africa over three challenges with batakari, adire fabric and boubous.
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7.8/1014 votesLoading...#19 - Episode 1
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 4/27/2022
Sewing Bee kicks off with 12 sewers creating a capsule wardrobe. They begin with a mini skirt, then make a going-out top from lockdown loungewear and finish with a fitted wrap dress.
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7.9/109 votesLoading...#20 - Episode 5
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 5/25/2022
The sewers follow the pattern for a toddler's sailor suit, make fancy dress Halloween outfits and create out-of-school garments from old school uniforms.
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7.9/1010 votesLoading...#21 - Episode 6
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 6/1/2022
Music Week brings a pattern for a parka once loved by the Mods, old denim gets the country music treatment, and David Bowie inspires the sewers for their Made to Measure outfits.
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7.9/108 votesLoading...#22 - Episode 7
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 6/8/2022
A lace bra and knicker set tests the sewers before they turn thermals into daywear. They must then fit a pair of luxury pyjamas to their male models
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7.9/1013 votesLoading...#23 - Tenth Season Start
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 5/21/2024
The Great British Sewing Bee turns ten as 12 brand new sewers follow the pattern for an A-line skirt, transform T-shirts and put their take on day dresses in the Made-to-Measure.
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#24 - Episode 1
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/2014
Amateur sewers test their sewing and dressmaking skills. The contestants are tested on the three core fabrics in a dressmaker's cupboard: cotton, wool and silk.
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#25 - Pattern Week
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/25/2014
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.
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The Worst Episodes of The Great British Sewing Bee
Every episode of The Great British Sewing Bee ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Great British Sewing Bee!
Amateur sewers take on challenges as they compete to be named Britain's best home sewer.
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Children's Clothes" is the worst rated episode of "The Great British Sewing Bee". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/12/2015. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "1950's Week".