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The Great British Sewing Bee

Series 8

2022 · 10 episodes

Sara Pascoe hosts as 12 talented home sewers create beautiful garments.

  1. 1. Episode 1

    2022-04-27 · 59m

    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.

  2. 2. Episode 2

    2022-05-04 · 58m

    The sewers make a pair of high-top trainers for Sports Week. They also create daywear from old netball kits, and they fit a sports jacket inspired by their sporting hero.

  3. 3. Episode 3

    2022-05-11 · 58m

    It's summer week, and the sewers make light and airy outfits, including a summer dress, a creation from old hammocks and a two-piece trouser co-ordinated outfit for a man or a woman.

  4. 4. Episode 4

    2022-05-18 · 58m

    Scraps are put to use in Reduce, Reuse, Recycle week to create quilted patchwork jackets. Old coats are given a new lease of life, and second-hand duvets become maxi dresses.

  5. 5. Episode 5

    2022-05-25 · 58m

    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.

  6. 6. Episode 6

    2022-06-01 · 59m

    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.

  7. 7. Episode 7

    2022-06-08 · 58m

    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.

  8. 8. Episode 8

    2022-06-15 · 59m

    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.

  9. 9. Episode 9

    2022-06-22 · 58m

    For a place in the final, the sewers follow the pattern for a kimono-inspired dress, mend old denim using Japanese techniques and create an outfit using folding and pleating.

  10. 10. Episode 10

    2022-06-29 · 58m

    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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