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00:00Writers 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.
01:10Now, amigurumi is a trend where people make food, creatures, objects.
01:16So, Di 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.
01:39We'll be looking at choice of stitches to create as much realism as possible.
01:48Consider carefully the proportion of your plate.
01:55OK, 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.
02:12But the judges have asked for 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 irregular look of food.
02:29Alongside subtle colour choices and painstaking shaping for accurate proportion and scale.
02:36The pressure is definitely on now that I have this sheep badge.
02:39I just 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.
02:51Be it a pie or a pork chop.
02:53Selecting the correct stitches to evoke realistic textures.
02:57Next, they should move on to the sides.
03:00Considering 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.
03:17Making food, these are really small objects in pretty obscure shapes.
03:22Shapes, which takes a lot of working out 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.
03:333D.
03:34In 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.
03:46The kitchen is still open, so it's still all to play for.
03:48Oh, absolutely.
03:50Knife and fork.
03:53Fresh from last week's Big Knitter win, the pressure is on for Isaac to maintain his own high standards.
04:00He's getting started with his hero ingredient.
04:03I'm making a bacon, egg and cheese on everything bagel.
04:06For his favourite 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.
04:19He'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.
04:28Each half of the bagel hides a tiny magnet, so the two pieces cleverly pull apart and snap together.
04:36Isaac!
04:37Hi, Tom.
04:38All 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. 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.
04:52Because 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.
04:59Also 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, because that gives a bit of a smoother finish.
05:21For 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, because you can't have a roast without gravy.
05:42Ailsa!
05:43Hello!
05:43This is a very detailed challenge. Like, are details something that are really important to you?
05:48I do pay attention to detail, and if there's a wee mistake, it's all I can look at.
05:54How often would you say you would cook a roast dinner?
05:56Never. I would never. Never?
05:57I never cook anything.
05:59Really? So what do you eat at home?
06:01Cereal.
06:02Cereal!
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.
06:21He will be knitting a base of broth for his main event, Udon Noodles, to sit on.
06:25Using a mix of knit and crochet, he will attempt to create shrimp, seaweed, carrot flowers, fish cakes,
06:32and even a boiled egg with tiny black beads of sesame seeds.
06:36The judges will be scrutinizing proportion and texture in every dish.
06:41And with this many different elements, this will be a tricky balancing act for Hulge.
06:45So 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?
06:54This is knit.
06:54Knit fabric.
06:55And then the noodles will be applied.
06:57I've got three different colors for the noodles because I want to create a little bit more depth.
07:01So 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.
07:10Because I'm A, surprised, and B, it might not happen.
07:13I hope to be surprised.
07:17Yeah, I want to make it a little bit more sculptural.
07:26Tracy!
07:28What have we got going on?
07:29Let me have a little look.
07:30Oh!
07:31What is that?
07:33Oyster mussels.
07:34It's a cockle.
07:35Are you making some kind of chowder?
07:37Yes, no, it's seafood pasta.
07:39Seafood pasta!
07:40Experienced crocheter Tracy has gone for the standard double crochet technique to create every element of her dish.
07:50Accompanying her bowtie pasta shapes will be a tomato sauce base, basil leaves, lobsters, prawns, cockles, and mussels.
08:00What's the story behind this being your favorite food?
08:02I used to pick winkles out of shells when I was a kid with my granddad.
08:05Winkles?
08:06Yes, they were like a little black shellfish.
08:08Never heard of them in my life.
08:09Really?
08:09Yeah.
08:10It was a real family occasion.
08:11And now I do that with my children.
08:13How many children and grandchildren do you have?
08:15I've got three children, eight grandchildren.
08:17Eight?
08:18They all eat jelly deals, they all eat prawns, they all eat shellfish.
08:21Okay, that's great.
08:22Have you made food before?
08:24Not food, but I crochet a lot.
08:26Trying to make it look as real as possible is quite a challenge, right?
08:29Yeah.
08:30Okay, well, I'll leave you to your seafood pasta.
08:33Made me quite hungry, that, actually.
08:34A few hours into the challenge and knitters should all now be well into the main element of their dish and moving on to the sides.
08:44I'm making pie and mash for East London.
08:48Pie and mash.
08:49Let's just be real.
08:50And just to add a pop more colour, I'm going to make individual peas.
08:55From jelly deals to pie and mash.
08:58God, blimey, governor.
08:58For her East End staple, Lydia is crocheting her two pies and three scoops of mash.
09:04The pies will sit on a knitted base of liquor sauce and to round it all off, a rather fiddly portion of individually crocheted peas.
09:15I mean, mash is actually quite a tricky proposition.
09:19Yes.
09:20Isn't it?
09:20Yeah.
09:21Are these finished?
09:22At the moment, yes.
09:23But 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.
09:34Yes.
09:34For this, for the mash.
09:36Having 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.
09:44Good luck.
09:45Simon 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.
10:01That badge you got on there, that would make a nice bit of roast lamb for my fry-up.
10:07Would you like it?
10:09Would you like the badge?
10:09Simon 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.
10:32In 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?
10:46Yeah.
10:46So you've used a lot of free-form.
10:49I'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, and we all know when you cook bacon,
11:01it rises up and twists and turns.
11:03The terms wing in it, like, feel a little bit sometimes derogatory when it comes to crafting.
11:08So in this instance, unlike some other elements of, like, the competition,
11:13I believe that, for me personally, free-form's been the way to go,
11:17because it really adds difference.
11:20These are really beautifully done, I have to say.
11:26Knitters, you are halfway through this challenge.
11:38Six 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 is 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.
12:06Uh, I 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.
12:13But he'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,
12:22Holger has got a Michelin star secret trick planned.
12:26I had told Di and Sheila that I'm trying to add something extra,
12:29something like three-dimensional, like an optical illusion.
12:32It is a bit risky because I haven't really tried it before.
12:35The 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.
12:53I absolutely love my food.
12:57Yeah, but we can all see that. I mean, the stuff you're crocheting here.
13:03How are you feeling for time?
13:05Um, strapped.
13:08Yeah.
13:09In the final few hours, the knitters should be considering
13:12what extra details will give their knits that realistic texture
13:16the judges are expecting.
13:18To make these as realistic as possible,
13:20I'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,
13:28but not too fluffy.
13:30But Tracey is methodically crocheting more ingredients
13:33for her seafood pasta,
13:35rather than adding textured detail to what's already in the bowl.
13:39Hi, Tracey.
13:40Hiya.
13:41You've got lots of elements in here.
13:44And it's all crochet?
13:45Yeah, it's all crochet.
13:47I thought so.
13:47Double crochet is a basic stitch,
13:51which creates a consistent texture.
13:53Do you have plans to use other crochet edges
13:56and things like that and embellishments?
13:58Shells, they often have a sheen, a shine to them.
14:02Yeah.
14:03I'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,
14:22but I don't think it's a lot bigger.
14:25Still a lot of work to go.
14:26Still a lot of work to go.
14:27Yeah.
14:31Knitters, time to reveal today's special.
14:34Mmm.
14:37Oh, one hour to go.
14:41In the last hour,
14:43knitters must finish their lifelike details
14:45and plate up each ingredient.
14:47What I'm going to do in the last hour
14:48is crochet as many beans as I can.
14:50Just go nuts for beans.
14:53I'm currently sewing as much of everything
14:56as I can onto my bagel.
14:57You're making your beans.
15:03Beans?
15:04You've got your hash browns,
15:05your eggs, your mushrooms,
15:06your bacon, your tomato,
15:08and the sausage.
15:13No, it does look like a sausage.
15:15It does look like a sausage.
15:19I don't touch it now.
15:22Holger.
15:23I 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,
15:34so 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,
15:42you just have to stuff the mash
15:44and then just make peas till you drop.
15:46Yeah, I'm not stuffing the mash
15:47because the bottom's open,
15:50so I'm just leaving them as is.
15:53Right.
15:54Ailsa.
15:55A gravy pot.
15:56And then there'll be a wee I-cord handle.
15:58I like that.
16:00I've seen you've got everything on the bagel now.
16:02Yeah.
16:03Well, on that side.
16:08I 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.
16:19After 12 hours knitting up a storm,
16:28six stitched-up suppers are ready to be served.
16:32Really, really happy.
16:34I feel really amazed the way it went,
16:36the whole challenge.
16:38Obviously, it didn't quite go to plan.
16:40Just ran out of time at the end there
16:41to put my seasonings on.
16:42But overall, I'm really happy
16:43with the look of my bagel.
16:49Ready for the first dish?
16:51Let's get to it.
16:54Isaac, if you'd like to come
16:56and present your dish.
16:57Oh, that is really amazing.
17:12The construction, Isaac, is really clever.
17:17And I think you've engineered it really nicely.
17:21Short row shaping.
17:22It shows real skill.
17:24I 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
17:40and the shape doesn't feel quite right.
17:46And surface decoration.
17:49Yes.
17:49There's quite a bit missing from the top here.
17:53It 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.
18:11The structure's really good.
18:18You've given it that pie crust feeling.
18:23The peas work incredibly well.
18:25They're a really vibrant pea colour.
18:28You have slightly fluffed up your mash.
18:34Yes.
18:35Could maybe have done with a little bit more.
18:38OK.
18:38So, a few textural issues.
18:41It 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.
18:58And we wanted texture, so we wanted the potato to look like that smooth Maris Piper mashed potato.
19:09Thank you very much, Lydia.
19:15There it is.
19:16Whoa.
19:17Simon, if you'd like to come up, please.
19:25Immediately, what I love about this is the bacon.
19:29It's impressive.
19:34Even down to the little bit of crisp on the bottom there,
19:37and 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.
19:55So, we were also asking for proportion.
19:59Everything does sit in proportion.
20:03Thank you very much, Simon.
20:05Ready for another one?
20:07Tracey!
20:08Tracey!
20:14I really do like the shape of these.
20:18Muscle shells are so decorative.
20:21They have so many colours running through them.
20:26You could have worked more at creating that colour.
20:30That the pasta's a little bit too big for me.
20:34It doesn't seem in proportion.
20:36You've used mainly a double crochet?
20:40Yeah.
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'd have liked to see more types of stitches to give the texture that this challenge is very much about.
21:03Thank you very much, Tracey.
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.
21:25They're gorgeous, but they do look like two little bowls.
21:34During every challenge, Ailsa, we've seen how neatly and carefully you work.
21:45It's beautiful, but it's not quite real.
21:48It is very perfect, but it needs a little bit more abstraction to give it that realism if it's too neat.
22:02Thank you very much, Ailsa.
22:04Here we go.
22:07Are you ready?
22:09Final course.
22:14Holger, if you'd like to come up.
22:18I love the construction.
22:26I think it's really fab.
22:28You've achieved your special effect.
22:30Yes, I 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.
22:49So you didn't have to fill it full of noodles.
22:50No.
22:50The texture in here is really good because it does actually look like a prawn that has just been pulled out of its shell.
23:02The colour is very good as well.
23:04I particularly like the balance, the variety.
23:06I think it has absolutely achieved that realism that we were looking for.
23:13Well, thank you very much, Holger.
23:15Thank you, Holger.
23:16I 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.
23:34The judges' comments were fair, but a seafood pasta does look like a bowl of mess.
23:38After knitting up a feast for the solo, it'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.
24:18We want you to use a minimum of three stitch techniques.
24:24We will be looking for clear, clean stitch definition.
24:30Absolute precision.
24:32No mistakes.
24:33Stop.
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.
24:48For Cardi B, we have Holger and Ailsa.
24:55And for Cardi C, Lydia and Simon.
25:00Now, you have ten hours for this challenge.
25:04So, your time starts now.
25:06Let's get knitting.
25:07For 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.
25:22I like red.
25:22Yeah, let's go red.
25:23Okay.
25:24Okay.
25:24They've been given a basic cardigan shape to create, but must figure out the construction
25:31and stitches themselves.
25:32With literally hundreds of options available, from the playful bubble stitch to the traditional
25:41honeycomb, the knitters will need to judiciously select which stitches will create impact and
25:46texture within a slouchy cardigan.
25:49We 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, and that would
25:54be really textured.
25:55I know what you mean, but I think we also need to consider time because we only have ten hours.
26:01With the clock ticking, our duos need to stitch, shape, and slay their way to Cardigan victory.
26:06At this stage in the competition, I really would hope that they are going to push themselves.
26:16We want to see them taking a few risks and pulling it off and showing us something really
26:22different 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.
26:36And use the bubble stitch on the wrong side.
26:40Yeah.
26:41We 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 a tile string that 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
27:02could just be texture city.
27:04Oh, okay.
27:04Right.
27:06Isaac plans to knit a smiley face motif into the back panel of the cardigan using reverse
27:12stocking stitch to outline the image.
27:15They'll use bubble stitch for the sleeves, a tricky stitch which creates a raised 3D texture
27:20that looks like bubbles popping out the fabric.
27:23Isaac will knit the back and one sleeve, leaving Tracy to knit the front two panels and the other
27:30sleeve.
27:31Do you see that?
27:31Do you see what I mean?
27:33Lovely.
27:33While Isaac charts out his smiley face, Lydia and Simon are keeping it classic with their
27:40stitch selection.
27:41The back and the front will be done in an all over kind of cable pattern that looks like
27:47like this.
27:48Simon and Lydia will knit the front and back panels of their cardigan in a rippling cable
27:55stitch which creates a gentle raised pattern across the fabric.
27:59For 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.
28:10Too big.
28:12Is it too big?
28:13Is that quite slouchy, isn't it?
28:15Mm-hmm.
28:17I think we're good.
28:19Elsa and Holger are leaving no stitch behind with their cardigan.
28:23I'll take waffle for one.
28:24I'm thinking...
28:25There'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 in two pieces rather
28:36than five.
28:37You could transform those five pieces into just two by splitting them and having this
28:43kind of T-shape.
28:44It would join together in the center.
28:48I really like that.
28:49I don't think anyone would think to do it that way.
28:51Well, we should...
28:52We probably have to talk a little bit quieter.
28:54Yeah.
29:00Elsa and Holger will knit one half of the cardigan each, meaning the stitches will run horizontally
29:06across the garment, rather than vertically.
29:09Elsa plans to use a waffle stitch to create little raised squares and a Scottish fleet
29:14stitch, which uses columns and diamond motifs to create a wealth of texture across the fabric.
29:20Holger's half of the cardigan will use a seersucker stitch to create a bumpy, dimpled surface
29:25and 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.
29:52The 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.
30:04So far, so good.
30:06I'm working on the sleeve.
30:08You can see we've got the cuff at the bottom.
30:10This is what I've done so far.
30:13It's a two by two twisted rim.
30:19So, team Cardi B.
30:22Hello.
30:22Quite a thing to construct to people at home.
30:25If you were to go and get a knit out from your cupboard, the knits, they always go down.
30:30Whereas this is going to be going sideways, which creates texture in itself.
30:35I mean...
30:35You have to go for the win, right?
30:37Yeah, go for gold.
30:38Although I sometimes feel like silver looks nicer.
30:42I'm more of a silver person.
30:43I'm silver.
30:44Sorry, I've got one of each.
30:47So, it's all right.
30:51While Holger and Elsa work their way through over eight different stitches,
30:56Lydia and Simon are on their honeycomb stitch,
30:59which has resulted in a beautiful texture, but a tight fabric.
31:02So, you've done a bit of shaping here to make it come in at the sleeve.
31:08Yeah.
31:09Quite the thick arms.
31:09Modeling it on mine.
31:10Yeah.
31:11Look.
31:12Yeah, look at that.
31:13Have you had a chance to look at what anyone else is doing yet?
31:16Yeah, I definitely have.
31:17I mean, it's easy just to take a little sneak peek at other people's work.
31:20But what I have found is that whenever I do that,
31:23I catastrophize and start to doubt my own decisions.
31:29Tracy and Isaac, how's it going over here?
31:32I've just finished the back panel.
31:34It's got a wee smiley face on it.
31:35Do you think that the smiley face is going to have enough texture to it for the judges?
31:46I 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.
31:54I never said that we had to cover the whole thing in texture.
32:01Knitters, five hours have gone.
32:03That's halfway through the challenge.
32:05You have five hours remaining.
32:08More than a half time.
32:09Yeah.
32:10With half the challenge left, teams should be making good progress on their individual sections.
32:15It'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.
32:28Her simple double crochet stitch in the solo left the judges unimpressed.
32:32She needs to wow them with their stitches in the team challenge.
32:35I've never done a bubble stitch before, no.
32:38The bubble stitch is created by intentionally dropping a stitch and then picking it back up
32:43multiple rows below to create a bold 3D bubbly texture.
32:47But it's not an easy stitch to master.
32:50There's always the worry when you've dropped the next stitch that you won't be able to pick it up anywhere.
32:53So I'm really out of my depth with this one.
32:55What are you doing here?
33:12It's got a bit of texture in there, mate.
33:15It's looking really good.
33:16What are you guys up to?
33:23We were knitting until you kind of plonked your fat ass onto my wall.
33:31Give me the crack.
33:32There's lots of texture.
33:33Right 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 cardigan challenge.
33:59There you go, beautiful.
34:02Wow, how far away are you from getting that done?
34:03I've got another four rows.
34:05OK.
34:06Lydia and Simon are adding a lace edging to the hem of their cardi.
34:10I'm just doing the eyelets now in garter stitch and Simon's sewing up.
34:15I think actually that little lace eyelet will look really nice.
34:18Yeah.
34:18I actually think it's going to be a lot of texture.
34:22Yeah, yeah.
34:23I'm happier now.
34:24Well done, mate.
34:27Knitters!
34:28You have one hour to go.
34:32In the final hour of the challenge, the teams should be seaming their individual sections together.
34:37I'm currently sewing this cardigan to Lydia's leg.
34:40You buy a cardigan, get a free Lydia.
34:43We will now join our two pieces.
34:47Elsa and Holger are using a Kitchener stitch, a clever technique to graft two sets of live stitches together
34:53and 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.
35:09Tracy hasn't picked up her dropped stitches, meaning the whole thing could unravel.
35:14You slipped the wrong one.
35:17It's because you've gone in between the stitches.
35:19I 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, okay, right.
35:25I went in between.
35:26It's all right.
35:27It's done now.
35:27And Holger's also spotted a problem with their cardi.
35:38Hold on, hold on, hold on.
35:41Please don't tell me that the Kitchener stitch was wrong.
35:43Well, something has gone wrong, I think.
35:46This is inside out, this is outside in.
35:51Oh yeah.
35:53Yeah.
35:54Holger has incorrectly sewn his section to Ailsa's section inside out.
36:00One side is inside out and one side's outside in.
36:06Hmm.
36:07Do we want to try and redo it or do we leave that and chance it?
36:11It doesn't necessarily need to be Kitchener to redo it, does it?
36:14That is true.
36:15Do 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.
36:59So let's bring Dian Sheila back into the armbarne.
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.
37:25OK, so I have a problem with this bit at the back.
37:29You 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.
37:48I 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.
38:21Well, thank you very much.
38:24And now, what do you think of the yellow cardigan?
38:34We have a smiley face.
38:35So, for me, the smiley face doesn't give enough impact.
38:44It doesn't give enough texture.
38:46It's pictorial rather than textural.
38:49I would have liked to have seen more texture.
38:53I 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 dropped 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
39:31because 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.
40:15I have an inside-out cable.
40:21That's really, really playful.
40:24Do you think it's intentional?
40:26What if this is actually a mistake?
40:43Shall we turn it inside-out?
40:46Yes.
40:47Because it may be that it's meant to be reversible
40:50and it's playful.
40:51Whatever 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.
41:08Yes.
41:14Sheila and I have come to a decision.
41:17So, in third place,
41:21we have the yellow cardigan.
41:27Can we ask who made the yellow cardigan?
41:30The dropped stitches.
41:32It was me.
41:33I'd never done the stitch before.
41:34And what about the smiley face?
41:37There we go.
41:38Might have guessed.
41:39There we go.
41:41In second place,
41:42and this has been a really difficult decision,
41:47is the green.
41:51Who did the green?
41:54So, the winner is the red cardigan.
41:59The texture was exceptionally good.
42:04So, please put us out of our misery.
42:08What happened?
42:09It was a mistake in the joining.
42:10When I seemed to rest up,
42:12I 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,
42:18it does still work.
42:21Well, Constitulations,
42:23Holger and Ailsa.
42:28Would I have agreed with the ranking?
42:30No.
42:30I don't.
42:33I stand by our work.
42:36We did fill it with texture,
42:38which is what we were supposed to do in the brief.
42:41I did something I didn't know.
42:43I took a risk and didn't pie off.
42:46It's now up to Di and Sheila to decide
42:48who has performed the best across both challenges
42:51and who will be cast off.
42:55So, who's in line for that lovely sheep badge this week?
42:59Holger.
43:00With his amazing ball 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...
43:12Simon really has shone this week.
43:18I think he's really showing far more skill
43:21than I think he even knew he had.
43:23Just like his egg, it's coming out of his shell.
43:25Oh, bless.
43:28Yes.
43:29And on the flip side of that,
43:31who'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
43:47when I saw in the sleeve those drop stitches.
43:50It was just such a terrible moment.
43:53We 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.
44:07And his performance on the cardigan,
44:10the back really let down the design.
44:13Getting tougher and tougher each week
44:15to say goodbye to someone,
44:16but that 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,
44:37it gets harder and harder to choose
44:39who is going to be the big knitter,
44:41and even harder to decide who is being cast off.
44:46Our big knitter this week
44:50is...
44:53Holger.
44:56Well done.
44:58Very well done.
44:59Holger, here is your sheep badge.
45:01Thank you very much.
45:03There you go.
45:04Congratulations.
45:05Thank you very much.
45:07But sadly, we do have to lose someone each week.
45:10So the person that is being cast off this week
45:16is...
45:19Tracey.
45:27Come on.
45:28Come on.
45:29Give us a hug.
45:31Oh, Tracey.
45:32We love you.
45:34I've met some incredible people,
45:35and I've had the greatest adventure,
45:37and I feel, you know,
45:39internally grateful for that.
45:42You've really been wonderful, Tracey.
45:44Holger just has to steal my thunder right at the end,
45:48which is fine,
45:49cos it's Holger and he's amazing.
45:51Who knows,
45:52if I hadn't put a massive turn on my plate,
45:54then I might have even come first.
45:56Yeah, it feels great to be the big knitter for the week.
46:00It feels flogging good.
46:02Next time,
46:05knitted jewellery sparkles.
46:07I'm doing some Viking knitting.
46:08Viking knitting.
46:09This 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,
46:22because we're looking for the best.
46:24There's nowhere to hide.
46:25It does get tougher every week.
46:27We'll see you next time.
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