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00:01Previously, our remaining knitters tackled fancy dress fashion in Kids Week.
00:08Hopefully they will look like a crayon.
00:10Before teaming up to make interactive children's wall hangings.
00:14Is it good? It's matching up, yeah.
00:17Isaac's spike stitch caught the judge's eye.
00:20His Explorer jacket was one of the best things I've seen.
00:24Simon came under scrutiny.
00:26There is more that you could have done, I'm sure.
00:29But it was all over for Dipti as she became the fourth knitter to be cast off.
00:38Now, it's week five and for our six remaining knitters, it's all about something Scotland is famous for.
00:44It's dramatic landscapes, it's rugged terrain and whatever that was.
00:50Yes, it's texture week. Welcome to Game of War.
00:59It's week five and with only six knitters remaining, the pressure is on.
01:03Which is why this week, I've come wearing a few little props to give the knitters a helping hand.
01:08This week's theme is texture. This week's solo challenge is amigurumi.
01:15Now, amigurumi is a trend where people make food, creatures, objects.
01:20So Dai and Sheila would love for you to make your favourite dish.
01:27We would like you to make the food look so real that we want to eat it straight away.
01:35This is amigurumi without a smiley face.
01:39So this is serious amigurumi and it's a real challenge.
01:44We'll be looking at choice of stitches to create as much realism as possible.
01:51Consider carefully the proportion of your plate.
01:58OK knitters, you heard the ladies, you have 12 hours for this challenge.
02:04Don't forget to wash your hands before you start.
02:06Let's get knitting.
02:12This week's solo challenge is to knit or crochet amigurumi food.
02:17But the judges have asked for absolute realism rather than cute little faces.
02:22Knitting and crocheting a plate of food.
02:24Not my thing.
02:26Knitters must consider a variety of different textured stitches to replicate the organic and irregular look of food.
02:34Alongside subtle colour choices and painstaking shaping for accurate proportion and scale.
02:41The pressure is definitely on now that I have this sheep badge.
02:44I just need to keep knitting to the stand that I have because competition is fierce.
02:49First, knitters should start with the hero element of their plate.
02:57Be it a pie or a pork chop.
02:59Selecting the correct stitches to evoke realistic textures.
03:03Next, they should move on to the sides.
03:06Considering accurate size and shaping to create balance across the dish.
03:10Finally, they can embellish with embroidery or duplicate stitch to create texturally accurate and realistic food.
03:18Good enough for our ravenous judges to eat.
03:20Making food, these are really small objects in pretty obscure shapes.
03:28Which takes a lot of working out on how you're going to actually create that, right?
03:32When you use stitches in a really overt way, you're creating something sculptural, 3D, in the fabric.
03:41They need to make sure that the stitches are chosen really carefully.
03:45I'm hoping that there will be variety.
03:49Well, it's not last orders yet. The kitchen is still open, so it's still all to play for.
03:54Absolutely.
03:55Mm-hmm.
03:56Knife and fork.
03:59Fresh from last week's Big Knitter win, the pressure is on for Isaac to maintain his own high standards.
04:06He's getting started with his hero ingredient.
04:08I am making a bacon, egg and cheese on everything bagel.
04:12For his favorite dish, Isaac will knit the bagel using short row shaping, an advanced technique where you knit part rows before turning back to create the perfect curve.
04:24He's using a combination of knit and crochet to create the bacon, egg and cheese elements for the inside, and will over-embroider seasoning across the top.
04:34Each half of the bagel hides a tiny magnet, so the two pieces cleverly pull apart and snap together.
04:41Isaac.
04:42Hi, Tom.
04:43All the maths that you've had to do with the short rows and the increasing and the magnets, I mean, it's all very scientific.
04:49A lot of engineering gone into this.
04:50Yeah.
04:51I'm hoping to have all of my bagel pieces knitted by, like, the four-hour mark.
04:57Because the bagel is, like, the biggest part of it, I want to make sure that it's, like, really, really good.
05:01You know, you've only got 12 hours. Make sure you finish your bagel.
05:04Also working on the main element of her dish is perfectionist Ailsa, and she's gone full carvery.
05:14I'm making Sunday roast. It's my favourite dinner. I'm planning on doing most of it in crochet, but I'm going to do my roast potatoes knitted because that gives a bit of a smoother finish.
05:26For her Sunday roast, Ailsa has opted for roast beef, crocheted with a colour gradient effect.
05:34It's served with all the trimmings, including carrots, Yorkshire puddings, and roast potatoes.
05:39To top it all off, she's planning a classic blue and white gravy jug because you can't have a roast without gravy.
05:46Ailsa.
05:47Ailsa.
05:48Hello.
05:49This is a very detailed challenge. Like, I detail something that are really important to you.
05:53I do pay attention to detail. If there's a wee mistake, it's all I can look at.
05:58How often would you say you would cook a roast dinner?
06:01Never. I would never.
06:02Never?
06:03I never cook anything.
06:04Really? So what do you eat at home?
06:06Cereal.
06:07Cereal.
06:08I'm noodling along here. It's a foundation chain and a slip stitch back.
06:17Trying to do something a little bit more substantial here.
06:23Holger is going east with a seafood ramen.
06:26He will be knitting a base of broth for his main event, Udon Noodles, to sit on.
06:30Using a mix of knit and crochet, he will attempt to create shrimp, seaweed,
06:35carrot flowers, fish cakes and even a boiled egg with tiny black beads of sesame seeds.
06:41The judges will be scrutinising proportion and texture in every dish.
06:46And with this many different elements, this will be a tricky balancing act for Holger.
06:50So how will this all be placed?
06:52We have the bowl. In the bowl will sit a base that brings the level up.
06:57So this is knit?
06:58This is knit.
06:59Knit fabric.
07:00Yeah.
07:01And then the noodles will be applied.
07:02I've got three different colours for the noodles because I want to create a little bit more depth.
07:06So you're considering how they're going to look?
07:08Yeah.
07:09And I'm planning to come out a little bit more, build 3D, but I'm not exactly telling you what I'm...
07:14No.
07:15Because I'm A, surprised, and B, it might not happen.
07:20I hope to be surprised.
07:22Yeah.
07:23I want to make it a little bit more sculptural.
07:32Tracy!
07:33What have we got going on?
07:34Let me have a little look.
07:35Oh!
07:36What is that?
07:38Oyster mussels.
07:39It's a cockle.
07:40Are you making some kind of chowder?
07:42Yes, no, it's seafood pasta.
07:44Seafood pasta!
07:47Experienced crocheter Tracy has gone for the standard double crochet technique to create every element of her dish.
07:54Accompanying her bowtie pasta shapes will be a tomato sauce base, basil leaves, lobsters, prawns, cockles and mussels.
08:05What's the story behind this being your favourite food?
08:07I used to pick winkles out of shells when I was a kid with my granddad.
08:10Winkles?
08:11Yes, they were like a little black shellfish.
08:13Never heard of them in my life.
08:14Really?
08:15Yeah.
08:16It was a real family occasion, and now I do that with my children.
08:18How many children and grandchildren do you have?
08:20I've got three children, eight grandchildren.
08:22Eight?
08:23They all eat jelly deals, they all eat prawns, they all eat shellfish.
08:26Okay, that's great.
08:28Have you made food before?
08:29Not food, but I crochet a lot.
08:31Trying to make it look as real as possible is quite a challenge, right?
08:34Yeah.
08:35Okay, well, I'll leave you to your seafood pasta.
08:38Made me quite hungry, that, actually.
08:39A few hours into the challenge, and knitters should all now be well into the main element
08:46of their dish, and moving on to the sides.
08:49I'm making pie and mash for East London.
08:52Pie and mash, let's just be real.
08:54And just to add a pop more colour, I'm going to make individual peas.
08:59From jelly deals to pie and mash. God, blimey, governor.
09:04For her East End staple, Lydia is crocheting her two pies and three scoops of mash.
09:09The pies will sit on a knitted base of liquor sauce, and to round it all off, a rather fiddly portion of individually crocheted peas.
09:17I mean, mash is actually quite a tricky proposition.
09:24Yes.
09:25Isn't it?
09:26Yeah.
09:27Are these finished?
09:28At the moment, yes.
09:30But they need to be brushed.
09:32To try and make it look more like potato.
09:34I just, I think, I felt this was the best way I could create realism.
09:39Yes.
09:40For this, for the mash.
09:41Okay.
09:42Having used a basic crochet stitch for her mash, Lydia now needs to brush out the strands of yarn to try and evoke a fluffy texture.
09:49Good luck.
09:51Simon is one of the only knitters in the barn who has not yet claimed one of those elusive sheep badges.
10:00So this week, he's going all out with a true British classic.
10:04That badge you got on there, that would make a nice bit of roast lamb for my fry-up.
10:12Would you like it?
10:13Would you like the badge?
10:15Simon is starting the day the right way with a full English.
10:20With a full English.
10:21He's engineering structured shapes for his hash browns, tomatoes, and sausages.
10:26But for his eggs, mushrooms, bacon, and beans, he is planning to use free-form crochet.
10:32A bold technique that combines stitches spontaneously without sticking to a rigid pattern.
10:38In previous challenges, Simon's lack of planning has left the judges unimpressed.
10:43But this week, he is determined to prove them wrong with his crochet skills.
10:49Can I ask about making the bacon?
10:51Yeah.
10:52So you've used a lot of free-form?
10:53Mmm.
10:54I've done the magic circle.
10:55Yeah.
10:56And I've added extra depth in stitches.
10:57Yeah.
10:58I've used doubles, trebles.
10:59I've embroidered the fat in there.
11:01It'll be very easy just to crochet a flat piece of bacon.
11:04And we all know when you cook bacon, it rises up and twists and turns.
11:08The terms winging it, like, feel a little bit sometimes derogatory when it comes to crafting.
11:13Yes.
11:14So in this instance, unlike some other elements of, like, the competition, I believe that,
11:19for me personally, free-form's been the way to go because it really adds difference.
11:25Yes.
11:26These are really beautifully done, I have to say.
11:30Knitters, you are halfway through this challenge.
11:44Six hours, so it's time to plate up.
11:48At the halfway point, knitters should have completed their hero ingredient and be considering
11:53sides to create the perfect scale and proportion across the plate.
11:59I finished my egg.
12:00Did you know that Simon is also making an egg?
12:03I did know that Simon was also making an egg, yeah.
12:06Is yours going to be egg-stra special?
12:08Mine has a magnet in it.
12:09I don't know if that makes it egg-stra special.
12:11Uh, I mean, I've never eaten an egg with magnets in it.
12:14He's not making an egg with magnets, though.
12:16He's making a bagel with magnets.
12:18But he's making his egg with magnets as well.
12:20Is he?
12:21But Isaac isn't the only one attempting a feat of engineering.
12:24With a place in the quarter-final up for grabs,
12:27Holger has got a Michelin star secret trick planned.
12:31I had told Di and Sheila that I'm trying to add something extra, something like three-dimensional,
12:36like an optical illusion.
12:37It is a bit risky because I haven't really tried it before.
12:50The knitters are over halfway through their texture week solo challenge to stitch up a menu realistic enough to tempt Di and Sheila's taste buds.
12:58I absolutely love my food.
13:02Yeah, we can all see that.
13:04I mean, the stuff you're crocheting here.
13:09How are you feeling for time?
13:10Um, strapped.
13:12Yeah.
13:15In the final few hours, the knitters should be considering what extra details will give their knits that realistic texture the judges are expecting.
13:22To make these as realistic as possible, I'm taking threads from yarns to try and blend the colour up.
13:30I just want to make it just a tiny bit more fluffy, but not too fluffy.
13:35But Tracy is methodically crocheting more ingredients for her seafood pasta, rather than adding texture detail to what's already in the bowl.
13:43Hi Tracy.
13:45Hiya.
13:46You've got lots of elements in here.
13:49And it's all crochet?
13:50Yeah, it's all crochet.
13:52I thought so.
13:54Double crochet is a basic stitch which creates a consistent texture.
13:58Do you have plans to use other crochet edges and things like that and embellishments?
14:03Shells, they often have a sheen, a shine to them.
14:06Yeah.
14:08I'm doing that and I'm going to put that on too.
14:11Okay.
14:12Have you scaled everything?
14:14Yes.
14:15Yeah.
14:16To actual size?
14:17Yeah.
14:20So this is the size of a piece of pasta?
14:25It might be slightly bigger, but I don't think it's a lot bigger.
14:29Okay.
14:30Still a lot of work to go.
14:31Yes.
14:32Still a lot of work to go.
14:33Yeah.
14:36Knitters, time to reveal today's special.
14:40Mmm.
14:42Oh!
14:43One hour to go.
14:47In the last hour, knitters must finish their lifelike details and plate up each ingredient.
14:52What I'm going to do in the last hour is crochet as many beans as I can.
14:55Just go nuts for beans.
14:56I'm currently sewing as much of everything as I can onto my bagel.
15:07You're making your beans!
15:08Beans?
15:09You've got your hash browns, your eggs, your mushrooms, your bacon, your tomato.
15:14And the...
15:15Um...
15:16Sausage.
15:18No, it does look like a sausage.
15:20It does look like a sausage!
15:22I don't touch it now.
15:25I don't touch it now.
15:27Holger.
15:28Tom.
15:29I think I know what your plan is with that.
15:31Houdini.
15:32Holger Dini.
15:34Tracy.
15:35Are we getting on?
15:36I've added detail to quite a few of them.
15:38I've put little beards on, so I hope that that's enough.
15:41Yeah.
15:42Lovely.
15:43Lydia.
15:44You're actually stuffing those little peas?
15:45Yeah.
15:46In terms of finishing, you just have to stuff the mash and then just make peas till you drop.
15:51Yeah, I'm not stuffing the mash.
15:53Because the bottom's open, so I'm just leaving them as is.
15:58Right.
15:59Ailsa.
16:00A gravy pot.
16:01And then there'll be a wee icord handle.
16:03I like that.
16:05I've seen you've got everything on the bagel now.
16:07Yeah.
16:08Well, on that side.
16:13I think there's only so much one can do.
16:15I can't do any more.
16:19Knitters, your time is up.
16:21Time to plate up your food.
16:23It's dinner time.
16:26Ooh.
16:31After 12 hours knitting up a storm, six stitched up suppers are ready to be served.
16:38Really, really happy.
16:40I feel really amazed the way it went, the whole challenge.
16:42Obviously, it didn't quite go to plan.
16:44Just ran out of time at the end there to put my seasonings on.
16:47But overall, I'm really happy with the look of my bagel.
16:54Ready for the first dish?
16:55Mm-hmm.
16:56Let's get to it.
16:57Isaac, if you would like to come and present your dish.
17:02Ooh.
17:03That is really amazing.
17:15The construction, Isaac, is really clever.
17:19And I think you've engineered it really nicely.
17:26Short row shaping.
17:27It shows real skill.
17:29I suspect a lot of maths has gone into that.
17:32Yeah.
17:33Yeah, definitely.
17:34We have some bacon in here.
17:39So, Isaac, I'm not sure about the bacon.
17:43It doesn't feel as if it's the right colour.
17:46And the shape doesn't feel quite right.
17:49And surface decoration.
17:53Yes.
17:54There's quite a bit missing from the top here.
17:57It was just a timing thing.
18:03But it's fun.
18:04Overall, it's fun.
18:07Well, thank you very much, Isaac.
18:10Are you ready for dish number two?
18:12Lydia, if you'd like to come up.
18:22The structure's really good.
18:23You've given it that pie crust feeling.
18:28The peas work incredibly well.
18:30They're a really vibrant pea colour.
18:36You have slightly fluffed up your mash?
18:39Yes.
18:40Could maybe have done with a little bit more.
18:43OK.
18:45So, a few textural issues.
18:48It could have been knit.
18:49Mm-hm.
18:50So, it had a smoother surface.
18:53Yes.
18:54Of the mashed potato coming out.
18:56Yeah.
18:57Plop onto the plate.
18:59Yeah.
19:00And I think it did need a bottom and a little bit more weight to it.
19:04We wanted texture.
19:06So, we wanted the potato to look like that smooth.
19:09Yeah.
19:11Maris Piper mashed potato.
19:17Thank you very much, Lydia.
19:21There it is.
19:22Whoa.
19:23Simon, if you'd like to come up, please.
19:25Immediately, what I love about this is the bacon.
19:34It's impressive.
19:40Even down to the little bit of crisp on the bottom there, and the veins of fat running through different textures in the bacon.
19:48I think it's a really exciting piece of food.
19:53The thing I particularly like about this is the combination of freeform and planning.
20:00So, we were also asking for proportion.
20:04Everything does sit in proportion.
20:08Thank you very much, Simon.
20:10Ready for another one?
20:12Tracy!
20:20I really do like the shape of these.
20:23The mussel shells are so decorative.
20:27They have so many colours running through them.
20:31You could have worked more at creating that colour.
20:35The pasta's a little bit too big for me.
20:39It doesn't seem in proportion.
20:42You've used mainly a double crochet?
20:45Yeah.
20:46Throughout?
20:47Yeah.
20:50We were looking for you to showcase your crochet skills in different stitches?
20:57Yeah.
20:58I think that's where the problem lies for me.
21:00There's not enough variation.
21:02I would like to see more types of stitches to give the texture that this challenge is very much about.
21:10Thank you very much, Tracy.
21:13Elsa, if you'd like to come up, please.
21:15As always, you're so neat and precise in your stitch work, grading from one colour into another and then back again.
21:31Yep.
21:35They're gorgeous, but they do look like two little bowls.
21:39During every challenge, Elsa, we've seen how neatly and carefully you work.
21:50It's beautiful, but it's not quite real.
21:55It is very perfect, but it needs a little bit more abstraction to give it that realism if it's too neat.
22:05Thank you very much, Elsa.
22:09Here we go.
22:12Are you ready?
22:14Final course.
22:19Holger, if you'd like to come up.
22:21I love the construction. I think it's really fab.
22:33You've achieved your special effect.
22:35Yes, I didn't want to say what it was because I didn't know whether it would work, but...
22:38Well, it has.
22:39It's worked very well.
22:40It has worked.
22:42What's holding it up?
22:43Well, two of the noodles are wire that has been crocheted around.
22:46You actually created a surface for this and sat it into the bowl to raise it up, so you didn't have to fill it full of noodles.
22:55No.
22:59The texture in here is really good because it does actually look like a prawn that has just been pulled out of its shell.
23:06The colour is very good as well, particularly like the balance, the variety.
23:13I think it has absolutely achieved that realism that we were looking for.
23:19Well, thank you very much, Holger.
23:20Thank you, Holger.
23:21I want to say the gloves are off maybe now.
23:27We've kind of reached the business end of the competition.
23:30The judges did say exactly what I had been thinking the whole time.
23:34That I was just being a bit too precise.
23:36I need to step up my game.
23:38The judges' comments were fair, but a seafood pasta does look like a bowl of mess.
23:43After knitting up a feast for the solo, it's now time for the team challenge.
23:57Hello, knitters, and welcome back.
23:59For your group challenge this week, you'll be split into three teams to create three slouchy cardigans.
24:08This is a chance to make something which has got lots and lots and lots of stitches.
24:15It really creates something dynamic.
24:18We are asking you to adapt a basic cardigan pattern.
24:23We want you to use a minimum of three stitch techniques.
24:29We will be looking for clear, clean stitch definition.
24:35Absolute precision.
24:36No mistakes.
24:40This challenge is judged blind, so I'm going to have to ask Diane Sheila to leave the barn.
24:45Knitters, you will be working in pairs.
24:48So for Cardi A, Tracy and Isaac.
24:53For Cardi B, we have...
24:57Holger and Ailsa.
25:01And for Cardi C, Lydia and Simon.
25:05Now, you have ten hours for this challenge.
25:09So, your time starts now.
25:11Let's get knitting.
25:17For this challenge, the duos will be using super chunky wool in one colour only.
25:22I do actually like this kind of mossy green.
25:26Yellow, yellow, yellow.
25:27I like red.
25:28Yeah, let's go red.
25:29Okay.
25:31They've been given a basic cardigan shape to create, but must figure out the construction and stitches themselves.
25:38With literally hundreds of options available, from the playful bubble stitch to the traditional honeycomb, the knitters will need to judiciously select which stitches will create impact and texture within a slouchy cardigan.
25:54We do it like that, but we bring it right in, so it ends up one of those sleeves that's really tight and goes like that, and that would be really textured.
26:00I know what you mean, but I think we also need to consider time because we only have ten hours.
26:06With the clock ticking, our duos need to stitch, shape and slay their way to cardigan victory.
26:11At this stage in the competition, I really would hope that they are going to push themselves.
26:21We want to see them taking a few risks and pulling it off and showing us something really different and original.
26:28What are some of the techniques and stitches that you'd be excited to see today?
26:34I would like to see the reverse fabric, something like this, the bubble.
26:39You can also reverse it and use the bubble stitch on the wrong side.
26:45We really do need to see them pushing themselves out of their comfort zone.
26:53Isaac is first to come up with a quirky idea.
26:56I don't know if you've ever seen where you're knitting a stockinette and then you do reverse stockinette on some stitches.
27:02Kind of like a tartar and it basically paints a picture.
27:04Yeah.
27:05I was thinking we could do that with like a massive smiley face and then the rest of it could just be texture city.
27:08Okay.
27:09Isaac plans to knit a smiley face motif into the back panel of the cardigan using reverse stocking stitch to outline the image.
27:20They'll use bubble stitch for the sleeves, a tricky stitch which creates a raised 3D texture that looks like bubbles popping out the fabric.
27:29Isaac will knit the back and one sleeve, leaving Tracey to knit the front two panels and the other sleeve.
27:36You see that? You see what I mean?
27:38Lovely.
27:39While Isaac charts out his smiley face, Lydia and Simon are keeping it classic with their stitch selection.
27:47The back and the front will be done in an all over kind of cabled pattern that looks like this.
27:53Simon and Lydia will knit the front and back panels of their cardigan in a rippling cable stitch which creates a gentle raised pattern across the fabric.
28:05For the arms, they will use a honeycomb stitch creating a tighter hexagonal beehive pattern.
28:11Lydia will work on the body while Simon will knit both sleeves.
28:15Too big.
28:16Is it too big?
28:17Is it too big?
28:18That's quite a slouch, isn't it?
28:19Mm-hmm.
28:20I think we're good.
28:22Elsa and Holger are leaving no stitch behind with their cardi.
28:28I'll take waffle for one.
28:29I'm thinking...
28:30There's going to be a cable running up the middle.
28:32There's a wealth of Gansey patterns.
28:35They are also the only team who are unusually constructing their cardigan in two pieces rather than five.
28:42You could transform those five pieces into just two by splitting them and having this kind of T-shape.
28:49It would join together in the centre.
28:53I really like that.
28:54I don't think anyone would think to do it that way.
28:57Well, we should probably have to talk a little bit quieter.
29:00Ailsa and Holger will knit one half of the cardigan each, meaning the stitches will run horizontally across the garment rather than vertically.
29:14Ailsa plans to use a waffle stitch to create little raised squares and a Scottish fleet stitch, which uses columns and diamond motifs to create a wealth of texture across the fabric.
29:25Holger's half of the cardigan will use a seersucker stitch to create a bumpy dimpled surface and a diamond Gansey stitch, which creates beautiful diamond motifs.
29:35Both will use cables to create a raised line across the middle of their halves of the cardigan.
29:41They will then join their two pieces together and add a tassel.
29:45If you want texture, you can't really get a lot more texture than that.
29:49Shall we get going then?
29:50Yeah, all that's left is to actually make it.
29:58The knitters are a few hours into their textured cardigan challenge.
30:03In about five rows time, I'm going to start on the smiley face decal.
30:09So far, so good.
30:12I'm working on the sleeve.
30:13You can see we've got the cuff at the bottom.
30:16This is what I've done so far.
30:18It's a two by two twisted rim.
30:24So, team Cardi B.
30:26Hello.
30:27Quite a thing to construct to people at home.
30:29If you were to go and get a knit out from your cupboard, the knits itch, they always go down.
30:34Whereas this is going to be going sideways, which creates texture in itself.
30:40I mean...
30:41You have to go for the win, right?
30:42Yeah, go for gold.
30:45Although I sometimes feel like silver looks nicer.
30:47I'm more of a silver person.
30:48I'm silver.
30:50Sorry, I've got one of each.
30:56While Holger and Elsa work their way through over eight different stitches,
31:00Lydia and Simon are on their honeycomb stitch, which has resulted in a beautiful texture, but a tight fabric.
31:08So you've done a bit of shaping here to make it come in at the sleeve.
31:13Yeah.
31:14Quite the thick arms.
31:15I've let it out on mine.
31:16Yeah.
31:17Yeah, look at that.
31:19Have you had a chance to look at what anyone else is doing yet?
31:21Yeah, I definitely have.
31:22I mean, it's easy just to take a little sneak peek at other people's work.
31:25But what I have found is that whenever I do that, I catastrophize and start to doubt my own decisions.
31:34Tracy and Isaac, how's it going over here?
31:37I've just finished the back panel. It's got a wee smiley face on it.
31:42Do you think that the smiley face is going to have enough texture to it for the judges?
31:51Um, I think that because the smiley face itself, like, the details of it are in texture, I might be able to get away with it.
31:59They never said that we had to cover the whole thing in texture.
32:06Knitters, five hours have gone. That's halfway through the challenge. You have five hours remaining.
32:13More than half time?
32:14Yeah.
32:15I think I'll be fine.
32:16With half the challenge left, teams should be making good progress on their individual sections.
32:21It's starting to take shape, the idea that we had, and then we'll join together once there's two of them.
32:29Tracy has tentatively moved on to her bubble stitch sleeve.
32:33Her simple double crochet stitch in the solo left the judges unimpressed.
32:38She needs to wow them with their stitches in the team challenge.
32:40I've never done a bubble stitch before, no.
32:43The bubble stitch is created by intentionally dropping a stitch and then picking it back up multiple rows below to create a bold 3D bubbly texture.
32:53But it's not an easy stitch to master.
32:55There's always the worry when you've dropped the next stitch that you won't be able to pick it up anywhere.
32:58So I'm really out of my depth with this one.
33:12What are you doing here?
33:17It's got a bit of texture in there, mate.
33:20It's looking really good.
33:21What are you guys up to?
33:28We were knitting until you kind of plonked your fat ass onto my wall.
33:37Give me the crack.
33:38There's lots of texture.
33:42Right now, if I'm being completely honest, I don't know whether it's just too much of the same.
33:51It's texture week in the yarn barn and the knitters are into the final stages of their slouchy cardigan challenge.
34:05There you go, beautiful.
34:07Wow, how far away are you from getting that done?
34:09I've got another four rows.
34:11Okay.
34:13Lydia and Simon are adding a lace edging to the hem of their cardi.
34:16I'm just doing the eyelets now in garter stitch and Simon's sewing up.
34:20I think actually that little lace eyelet will look really nice.
34:23Yeah.
34:24I actually think it's going to be a lot of texture.
34:27Yeah, yeah.
34:28I'm happier now.
34:29Well done, mate.
34:32Knitters!
34:34You have one hour to go.
34:38In the final hour of the challenge, the teams should be seaming their individual sections together.
34:42I'm currently sewing this cardigan to Lydia's leg.
34:45You buy a cardigan and get a free Lydia.
34:48We will now join our two pieces.
34:52Elsa and Holger are using a Kitchener stitch, a clever technique to graft two sets of live stitches together and create a seamless join in the fabric.
35:00This is literally not something you want to do under extreme pressure.
35:05Isaac and Tracy are attaching the sleeves to the body of their cardigan.
35:10That's your sleeve, that's my sleeve.
35:12But Isaac has spotted an error.
35:15Tracy hasn't picked up her dropped stitches, meaning the whole thing could unravel.
35:18You slipped the wrong one.
35:21It's because you've gone in between the stitches.
35:24I thought it was meant to go in between.
35:25No, it's supposed to go in this one down here and then you slip it and it hides.
35:29Oh, right, OK, right. I went in between.
35:31It's all right. It's done now.
35:38And Holger's also spotted a problem with their cardi.
35:43Hold on, hold on, hold on.
35:45Please don't tell me that the kitchen stitch was wrong.
35:48Well, something has gone wrong, I think.
35:51This is inside out, this is outside in.
35:56Oh, yeah.
35:58Yeah.
36:00Holger has incorrectly sewn his section to Elsa's section inside out.
36:05One side is inside out and one side's outside in.
36:10Do we want to try and redo it or do we leave that and chance it?
36:16It doesn't necessarily need to be catching her to redo it, does it?
36:19That is true.
36:20Do not, do not tempt me while I have the scissors at hand at the moment.
36:25We're done, we're done.
36:32Knitters, finish casting off needles down and get those cardigans on the mannequins.
36:37That's three slouchy cardigans complete in just ten hours.
36:42Having a garment that is half inside out and half outside in is still better than having two pieces.
36:51I know that the sleeves are not exactly even and I think that's something that they're going to pick up on.
36:56Well done knitters, now it's time for the judging.
37:05So let's bring Diane Sheila back into the armbarn.
37:08We are going to start with the green cardigan.
37:10Well, there is some super cable fabric here.
37:20And it's very well executed.
37:21Beautiful.
37:23Oh, and some openwork.
37:25An eyelet edge, very, very firm, really nice edging.
37:29OK, so I have a problem with this bit at the back.
37:34You can see this eyelet pattern has actually pushed and distorted the fabric.
37:43Because the cable fabric pulls it all in above it and it's just made a slightly strange shape.
37:50It's made it balloon out at the bottom.
37:55I don't feel that this sleeve is wide enough.
38:01The honeycomb cabling has pulled them in considerably.
38:06Too dense.
38:07Not slouchy enough?
38:08Not slouchy enough.
38:10There is much more give in this wave fabric.
38:14Apart from that, I absolutely love the fluidity of this garment.
38:21I think it's a really beautiful, textured jacket.
38:27Well, thank you very much.
38:29And now, what do you think of the yellow cardigan?
38:39We have a smiley face.
38:41So, for me, the smiley face doesn't give enough impact.
38:50It doesn't give enough texture.
38:52It's pictorial rather than textural.
38:55I would have liked to have seen more texture.
38:59I absolutely love these sleeves.
39:02Some very effective increasing so that they can balloon out.
39:05And this sleeve works really, really well.
39:07So, Sheila, there is a big problem with this sleeve.
39:15Oh, yes. There are dropped stitches.
39:18Here.
39:20Yeah.
39:22Lots of them.
39:24This would unravel very quickly.
39:27It's unstable.
39:28I'm really, really sad to see this because it's not really a viable functional sleeve.
39:43Thank you very much.
39:45And now, the red cardigan.
39:46What I'm seeing is a very different construction.
40:01Each knitter has cast on here and knitted up and over.
40:06The texture in this is fantastic.
40:17I have an inside-out cable.
40:23That's really, really playful.
40:24Do you think it's intentional?
40:26What if this is actually a mistake?
40:36Shall we turn it inside-out?
40:38Yes.
40:39Because it may be that it's meant to be reversible and it's playful.
40:56Whatever has happened, this is intriguing and…
40:59It's a bit of an enigma.
41:02Some stitches work both ways.
41:05This is all about texture.
41:07And it does work.
41:09Yes.
41:11Sheila and I have come to a decision.
41:14So, in third place,
41:16we have made a decision.
41:18It's a bit of an enigma.
41:20It's a bit of an enigma.
41:21Some stitches work both ways.
41:23This is all about texture.
41:24And it does work.
41:26Yes.
41:28We have the yellow cardigan.
41:33Can we ask who made the yellow cardigan?
41:36The dropped stitches.
41:37It was me.
41:38I'd never done the stitch before.
41:40And what about the smiley face?
41:43There we go.
41:44Might have guessed.
41:45There we go.
41:47In second place,
41:49and this has been a really difficult decision,
41:54is the green.
41:56Who did the green?
41:59So, the winner is the red cardigan.
42:05The texture was exceptionally good.
42:09So, please put us out of our misery.
42:13What happened?
42:14It was a mistake in the joining.
42:15When I seemed to rest up, I had the outside on the outside,
42:18and that's why it ended up like this.
42:21Whether it was meant to be or not, it does still work.
42:25Well, constitulations, Holger and Elsa.
42:33Would I have agreed with the ranking?
42:35No.
42:36I don't.
42:38I stand by our work.
42:41We did fill it with texture,
42:43which is what we were supposed to do in the brief.
42:47I did something I didn't know.
42:48I took a risk and getting high off.
42:51It's now up to Di and Sheila to decide
42:54who has performed the best across both challenges
42:57and who will be cast off.
43:00So, who's in line for that lovely sheep badge this week?
43:05Holger.
43:07With his amazing bowl of noodles.
43:10And he was in the winning cardigan team.
43:12They've created a fully reversible jacket full of texture.
43:17So, Simon.
43:20Simon really has shone this week.
43:23I think he's really showing far more skill
43:26than I think he even knew he had.
43:29Just like his egg, it's coming out of his shell.
43:31He...
43:32Oh, bless.
43:34Yes.
43:35And on the flip side of that,
43:37who's in danger this week?
43:39Trace is in danger.
43:42I was quite disappointed with Trace's bowl of food.
43:47It was just one stitch, effectively, throughout.
43:50I honestly nearly burst into tears when I saw, in the sleeve,
43:54those drop stitches.
43:56It was just such a terrible moment.
43:59We have to talk about Isaac.
44:02Although he did create a bagel with amazing shaping,
44:07yet again, he didn't finish it.
44:09Isaac often doesn't manage to finish,
44:13and his performance on the cardigan,
44:16the back really let down the design.
44:18Getting tougher and tougher each week to say goodbye to someone,
44:22but that decision has to be made.
44:27Well done, knitters.
44:32What a week, texture week, has been.
44:34We've had ups, downs, inside-outs.
44:37But as you know, each week that goes by, it gets harder and harder to choose who is going to be the big knitter,
44:47and even harder to decide who is being cast off.
44:51Our big knitter this week is Holger.
45:02Well done. Very well done.
45:05Holger, here is your sheep badge.
45:07Thank you very much.
45:09Congratulations.
45:11Thank you very much.
45:12But sadly, we do have to lose someone each week.
45:16So the person that is being cast off this week is...
45:21...Tracy.
45:30Come on. Come on.
45:33Give us a hug.
45:35Oh, Tracy.
45:37We love you.
45:39I've met some incredible people, and I've had the greatest adventure,
45:43and I feel, you know, internally grateful for that.
45:49Holger just has to steal my thunder right at the end.
45:53Which is fine, cos it's Holger, and he's amazing.
45:56Who knows, if I hadn't have put a massive turd on my plate,
46:00then I might have even come first.
46:02Yeah, it feels great to be the big knitter for the week.
46:05Feels, er, flocking good.
46:08Next time, knitted jewellery sparkles.
46:12I'm doing some Viking knitting.
46:13Viking knitting.
46:14Viking knitting.
46:15This one is going to be won and lost on detail.
46:18And our final five tackle the ultimate test.
46:21Lace.
46:23This challenge is the most difficult we've set so far.
46:26It's that point in the programme, because we're looking for the best.
46:30There's nowhere to hide.
46:32It does get tougher every week.
46:36And we'll be joining Tom and the gang next Sunday at 8.30.
46:39Now, someone else who knows her way around a knit or two is Kirsty.
46:44Her handmade Christmas, personalised and cosy, starts Thursday at 8.
46:49And handmade, yes, but doing it ahead of time.
46:52Batch from scratch at Christmas, taking all the stress away Friday at 8.
46:56And we'll be 분�angers at about tracking at four and five minutes of the year and half.
46:57This will be healthy as Saturday at eight.
46:59And after all, nobody else would agree with it.
47:01It'd be prone to hangers with bigger mill to seven minutes of posso phone.
47:02It could appear.
47:04And has the plan to ensure that he writes so many times,
47:06…
47:07It makes them even better.
47:08If it works, he can commit one more time patients,
47:09It goes without technique.
47:11It just happens to haveattedaram,
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