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