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Episode 6

The Great British Sewing Bee Series 7
Episode 6 of 10

It’s Reduce Reuse Recycle Week. The sewers make waistcoats out of old clothes, turn army surplus into a women’s outfit and make a dress out of jeans.

The fashion industry is the biggest polluter of our planet next to oil, so The Great British Sewing Bee returns to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Week, with all the usual fabric in the haberdashery being replaced with charity shop clothes and soft-furnishings. Host Joe Lycett kicks the six remaining home sewers off with a pattern for a gentleman’s waistcoat using just second-hand clothes.

In the Transformation Challenge, the sewers are tasked with changing items of army surplus into a stylish and wearable garment for a woman.

Finally, the sewers are asked to use old jeans to create a Made to Measure dress. Jeans are one of the most polluting garments to manufacture, so to breathe a new lease of life into them, each sewer must create a new denim dress that fits their model perfectly. At the end, someone will win Garment of the Week, and a sixth sewer will be asked to leave the Sewing Bee.

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58 minutes

Last on

Tue 29 Nov 2022 15:35
BBC Two Wales & Wales HD only

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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:01

    Cliff Richard

    A Little Imagination (Edited Version)

  • 00:14

    Winifred Atwell

    Black & White Rag ('Snooker' Theme Tune)

  • 00:19

    Lita Roza With The Bill Shepherd Orchestra

    I'll Never Say Never Again Again

  • 00:20

    Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

    The Thunderer

  • 00:21

    Barry Gray Orchestra

    Thunderbirds

  • 00:27

    Vivian F Dunn, H M Royal Marines Band

    Colonel Bogey

  • 00:32

    Rosemary Clooney

    This Ole House

  • 00:48

    David Dundas

    Jeans On

  • 00:50

    The Frank Popp Ensemble

    Hip Teens Don'T Wear Blue Jeans

  • 00:52

    Little Richard

    Rip It Up

  • 00:53

    Morcheeba

    The Sea

Credits

Presenter Joe Lycett
Judge Esme Young
Judge Patrick Grant
Series Producer Catherine Lewendon
Executive Producer Sara Ramsden
Director Ivan Youlden
Production Company Love Productions

Broadcasts

  • Wed 19 May 2021 21:00
    BBC One
  • Fri 4 Jun 2021 01:30
    BBC Two
  • Tue 29 Nov 2022 15:15
    BBC Two except Wales & Wales HD
  • Tue 29 Nov 2022 15:35
    BBC Two Wales & Wales HD only

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