Here is the Sewalong thread for those wanting to make the patchwork jacket featured on the GB Sewing Bee and in the GBSB book "The Modern Wardrobe"

As a sewalong there is no specific time frame and no voting/prizes. You can state you planned timeframe in your post.

In the book they use denim, on the TV programme they used precut scraps which included those from earlier projects.


If you don't want to trace off the pattern (or you buy it as an ebook) you can download their pattern from Patchwork Jacket

Hello folks, its not long until the end of May so I've been thinking about the June contest.

On the schedule it is due to be
"June – One pattern, two looks - how different can you make two garments from the same pattern look?"

Is this something that gets you excited?

If you also read on the Darkside you will have seen Iminei's TSP Darkside 1st Flash Make JUNE 2022.

These can happen at the same time if the Members would like both. Or we could postpone One pattern, two looks until another time.

Please let me know you thoughts on this.

Thanks Ruth

I think this is a great idea @Iminei.

Our bungalow was updated all in one go by the last owners and has white subway tiling with black grout in the shower, round the bath and basins and behind the cooker. I can't complain really as I did something similar when I replaced the kitchen in my old house before I sold it, though I went with off white tiles and pale grey grout which gave a gentler look.

So my June flash make will be using this sort of tiling scheme, perhaps with sashing, perhaps on the diagonal.

The Sewing Bee was using 4 inch squares apparently (or at least that's what the book says).
They reckon you need 100 squares for the sleeves and fronts only, and it is a fairly cropped style.

Love all your examples @BrendaP !

@Kad's fabrics are gorgeous!

Here are mine. I bought a bag of scraps for something silly like 50p, when I went into a very posh curtain shop some years ago.
I'd escaped from the office at lunchtime whilst working on a stressful project and this was my coping mechanism.
I think they are mostly the narrow sections cut off when someone has curtains hemmed to length.
Many of them have 2 'good' sides as they are jacquard patterns.
I've then added a couple of other remnants in the same colour story.

I'd quite like to make a more shaped coat/jacket, perhaps using this McCall's Pattern I've used before

I've got a pile of home dec fabric scraps in varying shades of duck egg blue and beige which I've always wanted to use for something, they'd be great for this sort of project.

Sure I'd join in with that :-)