The Great British Sewing Bee
The Great British Sewing Bee: Season 8

Air Date

April 27, 2022

Episodes

10 episodes

The Great British Sewing Bee

Season 8

Overview

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

Episodes

Capsule Wardrobe

1. Capsule Wardrobe

April 27, 2022
58 min

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.

Sports Week

2. Sports Week

May 4, 2022
57 min

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.

Summer Week

3. Summer Week

May 11, 2022
58 min

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-ord for a man or a woman.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Week

4. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Week

May 18, 2022
58 min

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.

Children's Week

5. Children's Week

May 25, 2022
58 min

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.

Music Week

6. Music Week

June 1, 2022
58 min

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.

Lingerie & Night Wear Week

7. Lingerie & Night Wear Week

June 8, 2022
58 min

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

1930s Week

8. 1930s Week

June 15, 2022
58 min

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.

Japanese Week - Semi Fina

9. Japanese Week - Semi Fina

June 22, 2022
58 min

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.

Party Week - Final

10. Party Week - Final

June 29, 2022
58 min

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.