\n Anna, who is part of St Leonard’s Hospice’s retail team, in York, wowed the judges during yesterday\u2019s BBC show, taking the competition to a “completely different level” with her creativity and technical skill.\n<\/p>\n
\n The episode was themed around Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and featured three sustainability-focused challenges.\n<\/p>\n
\n In the technical task, contestants were given three hours to sew a set of three knickers from recycled T-shirts.\n<\/p>\n
\n While Anna\u2019s set, which included a pair of mint green, printed olive green and striped knickers showed promise, judge Esme Young felt they didn\u2019t quite work together as a set and noted inconsistencies in sizing.\n<\/p>\n
\n Anna placed sixth in the round.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, it was in the transformation challenge\u2014where contestants turn waste materials into wearable garments\u2014that Anna truly shone.\n<\/p>\n
\n She designed a form-fitting green dress, completely backless, with exposed seams and a dramatic criss-cross rope detail.\n<\/p>\n
\n Commenting on this, Anna said: “I think the bold rope will work, and I want the train of the dress to be cut low.”\n<\/p>\n
‘It’s just super cool’<\/p>\n
\n Judge Patrick Grant was full of praise for the bold design.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “I absolutely love that heavy rope at the back. The red and grey colouring of it lifts the whole dress.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s just super cool.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Anna won first place for the transformation challenge and was thrilled with the feedback.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: “I’m really happy with my design.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I am so happy that the judges picked up on the ideas and themes that went into it.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Anna (far right) has made it into week four of the prestigious competition (Image: BBC\/Love Productions\/Neil Sherwood))\n<\/p>\n
\n The final challenge of the episode was to create a made-to-measure outfit with an environmental message.\n<\/p>\n
\n Anna printed her fabric using Himalayan Balsam, an invasive species, by treating the cloth and then hammering the flowers onto it to transfer the dye.\n<\/p>\n
\n She turned the fabric into an Indian calico dress, a style once popular in the 1880s and later banned because it was considered a threat to the local wool trade.\n<\/p>\n
\n Anna said: “This type of dress was very popular in the 1880s, but it was banned because it was considered a threat to the local wool trade.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Her model wore the dress on the catwalk, and the judges were deeply impressed.\n<\/p>\n
‘One of the best things I have seen on Sewing Bee’<\/p>\n
\n Mr Grant said: “The fit of the dress is phenomenal. Anna took the whole thing to a completely different level.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I cannot remember seeing something so extraordinarily beautiful.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It was so incredibly well thought out and it moved me to tears.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s one of the best things I have seen on Sewing Bee.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Esme also praised the design, saying that she loved the drapes in the dress and the fact that Anna made the fabric from scratch.\n<\/p>\n
\n Patrick added: “It is an absolute joy to behold”.\n<\/p>\n
\n Anna\u2019s Indian calico creation was named Garment of the Week, securing her position as one of the favourites in the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna, who is part of St Leonard’s Hospice’s retail team, in York, wowed the judges during yesterday\u2019s BBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}