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00:00Previously, 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.
00:30But 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.
00:53It's week five and with only six knitters remaining, the pressure is on, which 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.
01:11This week's solo challenge is amigurumi.
01:15Now, amigurumi is a trend where people make food, creatures, objects.
01:21So, Dai and Sheila would love for you to make your favourite dish.
01:25We would like you to make the food look so real that we want to eat it straight away.
01:34This is amigurumi without a smiley face.
01:39So, this is serious amigurumi and it's a real challenge.
01:45We'll be looking at choice of stitches to create as much realism as possible.
01:53Consider carefully the proportion of your plate.
01:58OK, knitters, you heard the ladies.
02:02You 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 plate of food.
02:25Not my thing.
02:25Knitters must consider a variety of different textured stitches to replicate the organic and
02:33irregular 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.
02:48First, knitters should start with the hero element of their plate.
02:56Be it a pie or a pork chop, selecting the correct stitches to evoke realistic textures.
03:01Next, they should move on to the sides, considering accurate size and shaping to create balance across the dish.
03:08Finally, they can embellish with embroidery or duplicate stitch to create texturally accurate and realistic food.
03:16Good enough for our ravenous judges to eat.
03:19Making food, these are really small objects in pretty obscure shapes, which takes a lot of working out on how you're going to actually create that, right?
03:31When 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.
03:51The kitchen is still open, so it's still all to play for.
03:54Absolutely.
03:55Knife and fork.
03:58Fresh 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'm 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.
04:33Each 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.
04:47I mean, it's all very scientific. A 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.
05:07Also 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 favorite dinner.
05:18I'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 color gradient effect.
05:35It's served with all the trimmings, including carrots, Yorkshire puddings, and roast potatoes.
05:40To top it all off, she's planning a classic blue and white gravy jug, because you can't have a roast without gravy.
05:47Ailsa!
05:48Hello!
05:48This is a very detailed challenge. Like, are details something that are really important to you?
05:53I do pay attention to detail, and if there's a wee mistake, it's all I can look at.
05:59How often would you say you would cook a roast dinner?
06:01Never. I would never.
06:02Never? I never cook anything.
06:04Really? So what do you eat at home?
06:06Cereal.
06:07Cereal!
06:12I'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.
06:19Hulge 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, carrot flowers, fish cakes, and even a boiled egg with tiny black beads of sesame seeds.
06:40The 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 Hulge.
06:51So 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?
06:59This is knit, yes.
06:59Knit fabric.
07:00And 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?
07:09And 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, I want to make it a little bit more sculptural.
07:25Tracey, what have we got going on?
07:34Let me have a little look.
07:35Oh, what is that?
07:38Oyster, mussels.
07:39It's a cockle.
07:40Are you making some kind of chowder?
07:42Yes, no, no, it's seafood pasta.
07:44Seafood pasta.
07:47Experienced crocheter Tracey 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?
08:14Yeah.
08:15It 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 and eight grandchildren.
08:22Eight!
08:22They all eat jelly deals, they all eat prawns, they all eat shellfish.
08:26Okay, that's great.
08:27Have 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.
08:37Thank you.
08:38Made me quite hungry, that, actually.
08:42A few hours into the challenge, and knitters should all now be well into the main element of their dish,
08:48and moving on to the sides.
08:49I'm making pie and mash for East London.
08:53Pie and mash.
08:54Let's just be real.
08:55And just to add a pop more colour, I'm going to make individual peas.
09:00From jelly deals to pie and mash.
09:03God, 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.
09:20I mean, mash is actually quite a tricky proposition.
09:24Yes.
09:25Isn't it?
09:25Yeah.
09:26Are these finished?
09:27At the moment, yes.
09:30But they need to be brushed.
09:31To try and make it look more like potato.
09:33I just, I think, I felt this was the best way I could create realism.
09:39Yes.
09:39For this, for the mash.
09:41Having 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.
09:54Simon is one of the only knitters in the barn who has not yet claimed one of those elusive sheep badges.
09:59So this week, he's going all out with a true British classic.
10:03That badge you've got on there, that would make a nice bit of roast lamb for my fry-up.
10:12Would you like it?
10:14Would you like the badge?
10:17Simon is starting the day the right way, with 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.
10:51So you've used a lot of free-form.
10:53I've done the magic circle.
10:55Yeah.
10:55And I've added extra depth in stitches.
10:57Yeah.
10:58So I'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 wing in it, like, feel a little bit sometimes derogatory when it comes to crafting.
11:13Yeah.
11:14So in this instance, unlike some other elements of, like, the competition,
11:18I believe that, for me personally, free-form's been the way to go.
11:21Because it really adds difference.
11:25And these are really beautifully done, I have to say.
11:39Knitters, you are halfway through this challenge.
11:43Six hours, so it's time to plate up.
11:46At the halfway point, knitters should have completed their hero ingredient and be considering sides to create the perfect scale and proportion across the plate.
11:58I 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.
12:05Is 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.
12:11I 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 the bagel with magnets.
12:18But he's making his egg with magnets as well.
12:19Is he?
12:20But Isaac isn't the only one attempting a feat of engineering.
12:24With a place in the quarter-final up for grabs, Holger 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, like an optical illusion.
12:37It is a bit risky because I haven't really tried it before.
12:41The 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.
12:59I absolutely love my food.
13:02Yeah, but you can all see that.
13:04I mean, the stuff you're crocheting here.
13:08How are you feeling for time?
13:10Um, strapped.
13:13Yeah.
13:14In the final few hours, the knitters should be considering what extra details will give their knits that realistic texture the judges are expecting.
13:23To 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.
13:34But Tracey is methodically crocheting more ingredients for her seafood pasta, rather than adding textured detail to what's already in the bowl.
13:43Hi, Tracey.
13:44Hiya.
13:45Hiya.
13:46You've got lots of elements in here.
13:48And it's all crochet?
13:50Yeah, it's all crochet.
13:51I thought so.
13:53Double crochet is a basic stitch which creates a consistent texture.
13:57Do you have plans to use other crochet edges and things like that and embellishments?
14:02Shells, they often have a sheen, a shine to them.
14:06Yeah.
14:07I'm doing that and I'm going to put that on toe.
14:10OK.
14:12Have you scaled everything?
14:13Yes.
14:14Yeah.
14:15To actual size?
14:16Yeah.
14:19So this is the size of a piece of pasta?
14:24It might be slightly bigger, but I don't think it's a lot bigger.
14:29OK.
14:30Still a lot of work to go.
14:31Still a lot of work to go.
14:32Yeah.
14:35Knitters, time to reveal today's special.
14:39Mmm.
14:42Oh!
14:43One hour to go.
14:46In the last hour, knitters must finish their lifelike details and plate up each ingredient.
14:51What I'm going to do in the last hour is crochet as many beans as I can.
14:54Just go nuts for beans.
14:58I'm currently sewing as much of everything as I can onto my bagel.
15:06You're making your beans!
15:08You've got your hash browns, your eggs, your mushrooms, your bacon, your tomato.
15:13And the...
15:15Um...
15:16Sausage!
15:18No, it does look like a sausage.
15:20It does look like a sausage!
15:24I don't touch it now!
15:27Holger.
15:28Tom.
15:29I don't know what your plan is with that.
15:30Houdini.
15:32Holger Dini.
15:34Tracy!
15:35Are we getting on?
15:36I've added detail to quite a few of them.
15:37I've put little beards on, so I hope that that's enough.
15:40Yeah.
15:41Lovely.
15:42Lydia.
15:43You're actually stuffing those little peas.
15:44Yeah.
15:45In terms of finishing, you just have to stuff the mash and then just make peas till you drop.
15:50Yeah, I'm not stuffing the mash.
15:52Because the bottom's open, so I'm just leaving them as is.
15:56Right.
15:58Ale, sir.
15:59A gravy pot.
16:00And then there'll be a wee icord handle.
16:02I like that.
16:04I've seen you've got everything on the bagel now.
16:06Yeah.
16:07Well, on that side.
16:12I think there's only so much one can do.
16:14I can't do any more.
16:18Knitters, your time is up.
16:20Time to plate up your food.
16:23It's dinner time.
16:24Ooh.
16:30After 12 hours knitting up a storm, six stitched-up suppers are ready to be served.
16:37Really, really happy.
16:39I 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.
16:49I'm really happy with the look of my bagel.
16:54Ready for the first dish?
16:55Mm-hmm.
16:56Let's get to it.
16:59Isaac, if you would like to come and present your dish.
17:02Oh, that is really amazing.
17:15And the construction, Isaac, is really clever.
17:20And I think you've engineered it really nicely.
17:25Short row shaping, it shows real skill.
17:29I suspect that a lot of maths has gone into that.
17:31Yeah, yeah, definitely.
17:32Yes.
17:33We have some bacon in here.
17:35So, Isaac, I'm not sure about the bacon.
17:42It doesn't feel as if it's the right colour.
17:45And the shape doesn't feel quite right.
17:50And surface decoration.
17:53Yes.
17:54There's quite a bit missing from the top here.
17:57It was just a timing thing.
17:58But it's fun.
18:03Overall, it's fun.
18:07Well, thank you very much, Isaac.
18:09Thank you.
18:10Are you ready for dish number two?
18:13Lydia, if you'd like to come up.
18:15The structure's really good.
18:16You've given it that pie crust feeling.
18:27The peas work incredibly well.
18:29They're a really vibrant pea colour.
18:35You have slightly fluffed up your mash.
18:38Yes.
18:40Could maybe have done with a little bit more.
18:42OK.
18:44So, a few textural issues.
18:47It could have been knit.
18:48Mm-hm.
18:49So, it had a smoother surface.
18:52Yes.
18:53Of the mashed potato coming out.
18:55Yeah.
18:56Plop onto the plate.
18:58Yeah.
18:59And I think it did need a bottom and a little bit more weight to it.
19:03Mm-hm.
19:04We wanted texture.
19:05So, we wanted the potato to look like that smooth.
19:08Yeah.
19:10Maris Piper.
19:12Mashed potato.
19:16Thank you very much, Lydia.
19:17Thank you.
19:20There it is.
19:21Whoa.
19:22Simon, if you'd like to come up, please.
19:29Immediately what I love about this is the bacon.
19:33It's impressive.
19:39Even down to the little bit of crisp on the bottom there.
19:42And the veins of fat running through different textures in the bacon.
19:47I think it's a really exciting piece of food.
19:52The thing I particularly like about this is the combination of free form and planning.
19:59So, we were also asking for proportion.
20:03Everything does sit in proportion.
20:07Thank you very much, Simon.
20:09You ready for another one?
20:12Tracy!
20:19I really do like the shape of these.
20:22The mussel shells are so decorative.
20:26They have so many colours running through them.
20:30He could have worked more at creating that colour.
20:34That the pasta's a little bit too big for me.
20:38It doesn't seem in proportion.
20:41You've used mainly a double crochet?
20:44Yeah.
20:45Throughout?
20:46Yeah.
20:50We were looking for you to showcase your crochet skills in different stitches?
20:56Yeah.
20:57I think that's where the problem lies for me.
20:59There's not enough variation.
21:01I would like to see more types of stitches to give the texture that this challenge is very much about.
21:09Thank you very much, Tracy.
21:12Ailsa, if you'd like to come up, please.
21:14As always, you're so neat and precise in your stitch work, grading from one colour into another and then back again.
21:30Yep.
21:31They're gorgeous, but they do look like two little bowls.
21:36During every challenge, Ailsa, we've seen how neatly and carefully you work.
21:48It's beautiful, but it's not quite real.
21:54It is very perfect, but it needs a little bit more abstraction to give it that realism if it's too neat.
22:06Thank you very much, Ailsa.
22:09Here we go.
22:11Are you ready?
22:13Final course.
22:18Holger, if you'd like to come up.
22:20I love the construction. I think it's really fab.
22:33You've achieved your special effect.
22:34Yes, I didn't want to say what it was because I didn't know whether it would work.
22:37Well, it has.
22:38It's worked very well.
22:39It has worked.
22:40Thank you.
22:41What's holding it up?
22:42Well, 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.
22:58The 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.
23:10I think it has absolutely achieved that realism that we were looking for.
23:18Well, thank you very much, Holger.
23:19Thank you, Holger.
23:24I want to say the gloves are off.
23:25Maybe now we've kind of reached the business end of the competition.
23:30The judges did say exactly what I had been thinking the whole time.
23:33That I was just being a bit too precise.
23:35I need to step up my game.
23:37The judges' comments were fair, but a seafood pasta does look like a bowl of mess.
23:50After knitting up a feast for the solo, it's now time for the team challenge.
23:56Hello, knitters, and welcome back.
23:58For your group challenge this week, you'll be split into three teams to create three slouchy cardigans.
24:09This is a chance to make something which has got lots and lots and lots of stitches.
24:14Really creates something dynamic.
24:16We are asking you to adapt a basic cardigan pattern.
24:22We want you to use a minimum of three stitch techniques.
24:28We will be looking for clear, clean stitch definition.
24:34Absolute precision.
24:36No mistakes.
24:37This challenge is judged blind, so I'm going to have to ask Di and Sheila to leave the barn.
24:44Knitters, you will be working in pairs.
24:47So for Cardi A, Tracy and Isaac.
24:51For Cardi B, we have Holger and Ailsa.
25:00And 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.
25:12For this challenge, the duos will be using super chunky wool in one colour only.
25:23I do actually like this kind of mossy green.
25:25Yellow, yellow, yellow.
25:26I like red.
25:27Yeah, let's go red.
25:28OK.
25:30They've been given a basic cardigan shape to create, but must figure out the construction and stitches themselves.
25:37With 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.
26:04With the clock ticking, our duos need to stitch, shape and slay their way to cardigan victory.
26:15At 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.
26:29What are some of the techniques and stitches that you'd be excited to see today?
26:33I 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.
26:52Isaac is first to come up with a quirky idea.
26:55I don't know if you've ever seen where you're knitting a stockinette and then you do reverse stockinette on some stitches, kind of like a tile string that basically paints a picture.
27:03Yeah.
27:04I was thinking we could do that with like a massive smiley face and then the rest of it could just be texture city.
27:08Oh, okay.
27:09Isaac plans to knit a smiley face motif into the back panel of the cardigan using reverse stocking stitch to outline the image.
27:19They'll use bubble stitch for the sleeves, a tricky stitch which creates a raised 3D texture that looks like bubbles popping out the fabric.
27:27Isaac will knit the back and one sleeve, leaving Tracy to knit the front two panels and the other sleeve.
27:34Do you see that? Do you see what I mean?
27:36Lovely.
27:37While Isaac charts out his smiley face, Lydia and Simon are keeping it classic with their stitch selection.
27:46The back and the front will be done in an all over kind of cable pattern that looks like this.
27:55Simon 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.
28:04For the arms, they will use a honeycomb stitch, creating a tighter hexagonal beehive pattern.
28:10Lydia will work on the body, while Simon will knit both sleeves.
28:15Too big.
28:16Is it too big?
28:17Is that quite slouchy, isn't it?
28:19Mm-hmm.
28:21I think we're good.
28:23Elsa and Holger are leaving no stitch behind with their cardi.
28:27I'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.
28:41You 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 center.
28:52I really like that. I don't think anyone would think to do it that way.
28:56Well, we should probably have to talk a little bit quieter.
28:59Yeah.
29:05Elsa and Holger will knit one half of the cardigan each, meaning the stitches will run horizontally across the garment rather than vertically.
29:13Elsa 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.
29:34Both will use cables to create a raised line across the middle of their halves of the cardigan.
29:40They will then join their two pieces together and add a tassel.
29:43If you want texture, you can't really get a lot more texture than that.
29:47Shall we get going then?
29:48Yeah, all that's left is to actually make it.
29:57The knitters are a few hours into their textured cardigan challenge.
30:02In about five rows time, I'm going to start on the smiley face decal. So far, so good.
30:10I'm working on the sleeve. You can see we've got the cuff at the bottom.
30:14This is what I've done so far. It's a two by two twisted rim.
30:23So, team Cardi B. Hello.
30:26Quite a thing to construct to people at home. If 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.
30:39I mean, you have to go for the win, right?
30:41Yeah, go for gold.
30:44Although I sometimes feel like silver looks nicer.
30:46I'm more of a silver person.
30:47I'm silver.
30:49Sorry, I've got one of each.
30:55While Holger and Elsa work their way through over eight different stitches, Lydia and Simon are on their honeycomb stitch, which has resulted in a beautiful texture, but a tight fabric.
31:06So, you've done a bit of shaping here to make it come in at the sleeve.
31:12Yeah.
31:13Quite the thick arms.
31:14Modeling it on mine.
31:15Yeah.
31:16Look.
31:17Yeah, look at that.
31:18Have you had a chance to look at what anyone else is doing yet?
31:20Yeah, I definitely have.
31:21I 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.
31:40Do you think that, um, the smiley face is going to have enough texture to it for the judges?
31:50Um, 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.
31:58I 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.
32:12More than enough time?
32:13Yeah.
32:14I think we'll be fine.
32:15With half the challenge left, teams should be making good progress on their individual sections.
32:20It's starting to take shape, the idea that we had, and then we'll join together once there's two of them.
32:26Tracy has tentatively moved on to her bubble stitch sleeve.
32:32Her simple double crochet stitch in the solo left the judges unimpressed.
32:37She needs to wow them with their stitches in the team challenge.
32:40I've never done a bubble stitch before, no.
32:42The bubble stitch is created by intentionally dropping a stitch and then picking it back up multiple rows below
32:49to create a bold 3D bubbly texture.
32:52But it's not an easy stitch to master.
32:54There's always the worry when you drop 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.
33:19It's looking really good.
33:21What are you guys up to?
33:26We were knitting until you kind of plonked your fat ass onto my wall.
33:31Give me the crack.
33:36There's lots of texture.
33:38Right 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.
34:04There you go, beautiful.
34:06Wow, how far away are you from getting that done?
34:08I've got another four rows.
34:09OK.
34:10Liddy and Simon are adding a lace edging to the hem of their cardi.
34:14I'm just doing the eyelets now in garter stitch and Simon's sewing up.
34:19I think actually that little lace eyelet will look really nice.
34:22Yeah.
34:23I actually think it's going to be a lot of texture.
34:26Yeah, yeah.
34:27I'm happier now.
34:28Well done, mate.
34:31Knitters!
34:32You have one hour to go.
34:37In 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.
34:44You buy a cardigan and get a free Lydia.
34:48We will now join our two pieces.
34:51Elsa 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.
35:01This 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.
35:09That's your sleeve, that's my sleeve.
35:11But Isaac has spotted an error.
35:14Tracy hasn't picked up her dropped stitches, meaning the whole thing could unravel.
35:19You 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.
35:32And Holger's also spotted a problem with their cardi.
35:42Hold on, hold on, hold on.
35:45Please don't tell me to the Kitchener stitch was wrong.
35:47Well, something has gone wrong, I think.
35:50This is inside out, this is outside in.
35:52Oh, yeah.
35:53Yeah.
35:54Holger has incorrectly sewn his section to Ailsa's section inside out.
36:04One side is inside out and one side's outside in.
36:09Do we need to try and redo it or do we leave that and chance that?
36:15It doesn't necessarily need to be Kitchener to redo it, does it?
36:18That is true.
36:19Do not, do not tempt me while I have the scissors at hand at the moment.
36:24We're done, we're done.
36:26Knitters, finish casting off needles down and get those cardigans on the mannequins.
36:41That's three slouchy cardigans complete in just ten hours.
36:46Having a garment that is half inside out and half outside in is still better than having two pieces.
36:50I know that the sleeves are not exactly even and I think that's something that they're going to pick up on.
37:00Well done, knitters.
37:01Now it's time for the judging.
37:04So let's bring Dian Sheila back into the armbarn.
37:07We are going to start with the green cardigan.
37:14Well, there is some super cable fabric here.
37:19And it's very well executed.
37:21Beautiful.
37:22Oh, and some openwork.
37:24An 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.
37:51It's made it balloon out at the bottom.
37:54I don't feel that this sleeve is wide enough.
38:01The honeycomb cabling has pulled them in considerably.
38:05Too dense.
38:07Not slouchy enough?
38:08Not slouchy enough.
38:10There is much more give in this wave fabric.
38:13Apart from that, I absolutely love the fluidity of this garment.
38:21I think it's a really beautiful, textured jacket.
38:26Well, thank you very much.
38:27And now what do you think of the yellow cardigan?
38:39We have a smiley face.
38:43So for me, the smiley face doesn't give enough impact.
38:48It doesn't give enough texture.
38:50It's pictorial rather than textural.
38:54I would have liked to have seen more texture.
38:58I absolutely love these sleeves.
39:00Some very effective increasing so that they can balloon out.
39:03And this sleeve works really, really well.
39:09Hmm.
39:10So, Sheila, there is a big problem with this sleeve.
39:13Oh, yes, there are dropped stitches here.
39:19Yeah.
39:20Lots of them.
39:22This would unravel very quickly.
39:25It's unstable.
39:30I'm really, really sad to see this because...
39:36It's not really a viable, functional sleeve.
39:41Thank you very much.
39:44And now the red cardigan.
39:53What I'm seeing...
39:56...is a very different construction.
40:00Each knitter has cast on here and knitted up and over.
40:05The texture in this is fantastic.
40:20I have an inside-out cable.
40:26That's really, really playful.
40:29Do you think it's intentional?
40:31What if this is actually a mistake?
40:47Shall we turn it inside-out?
40:50Yes.
40:52Because it may be that it's meant to be reversible.
40:55And it's playful.
40:58Whatever has happened?
41:00This is intriguing and...
41:03It's a bit of an enigma.
41:05Some stitches work both ways.
41:09This is all about texture.
41:11And it does work.
41:13Yes.
41:19Sheila and I have come to a decision.
41:22So, in third place...
41:27..we have the yellow cardigan.
41:32Can we ask who made the yellow cardigan?
41:35The dropped stitches.
41:37It was me.
41:38I'd never done the stitch before.
41:40And what about the smiley face?
41:42There we go.
41:44Might have guessed.
41:46In second place...
41:48..and this has been a really difficult decision...
41:53..is the green.
41:56Who did the green?
41:58So, the winner is the red cardigan.
42:04The texture was exceptionally good.
42:09So, please put us out of our misery.
42:12What happened?
42:14It was a mistake in the joining.
42:16When I seemed to rest up, I had the outside on the outside...
42:18..and that's why it ended up like this.
42:20Whether it was meant to be or not, it does still work.
42:26Well, Constitulations, Holger and Ailsa.
42:32Would I have agreed with the ranking?
42:34No.
42:36I don't.
42:39I stand by our work.
42:41We did fill it with texture,
42:43which is what we were supposed to do in the brief.
42:46I did something I didn't know.
42:48I took a risk and didn't pay off.
42:50It's now up to Di and Sheila to decide
42:53who has performed the best across both challenges
42:57and who will be cast off.
42:59So, who's in line for that lovely sheep badge this week?
43:04Holger.
43:06With his amazing bowl of noodles.
43:09And he was in the winning cardigan team.
43:11They've created a fully reversible jacket full of texture.
43:16So, Simon.
43:19Simon really has shone this week.
43:22I think he's really showing far more skill than I think he even knew he had.
43:28Just like his egg. It's coming out of his shell.
43:31Oh, bless.
43:33Yes.
43:35And on the flip side of that, who's in danger this week?
43:38Trace is in danger.
43:39I was quite disappointed with Trace's bowl of food.
43:45It was just one stitch effectively throughout.
43:50I honestly nearly burst into tears when I saw in the sleeve those drop stitches.
43:55It was just such a terrible moment.
43:58We have to talk about Isaac.
44:00Although he did create a bagel with amazing shaping,
44:05yet again he didn't finish it.
44:08Isaac often doesn't manage to finish.
44:12And his performance on the cardigan,
44:15the back really let down the design.
44:18Getting tougher and tougher each week to say goodbye to someone,
44:20but that decision has to be made.
44:22Well done, knitters.
44:27What a week Texture Week has been.
44:29We've had ups, downs, inside-outs.
44:33But as you know, each week that goes by, it gets harder and harder to choose who is going to be the big knitter.
44:45And even harder to decide who is being cast off.
44:51Our big knitter this week is...
44:59Holger.
45:01Well done.
45:02Very well done.
45:04Holger, here is your sheep badge.
45:06Thank you very much.
45:08There you go.
45:09Congratulations.
45:10Thank you very much.
45:11But sadly, we do have to lose someone each week.
45:16So the person that is being cast off this week is...
45:28Tracy.
45:30Thank you.
45:32Come on, come up and give us a hug.
45:35Oh, Tracy.
45:37We love you.
45:38I've met some incredible people and I've had the greatest adventure.
45:42And I feel, you know, internally grateful for that.
45:45Thank you.
45:47It's really been wonderful, Tracy.
45:49Holger just has to steal my thunder right at the end.
45:53Which is fine because it's Holger and he's amazing.
45:56Who knows, if I hadn't put a massive turn on my plate, then I might have even come first.
46:01Yeah, it feels great to be the big knitter for the week.
46:05Feels flocking good.
46:06Next time, knitted jewellery sparkles.
46:09I'm doing some Viking knitting.
46:11Viking knitting.
46:13This one is going to be won and lost on detail.
46:16And our final five tackle the ultimate test.
46:20Lace.
46:22This challenge is the most difficult we've set so far.
46:25It's that point in the programme because we're looking for the best.
46:28There's nowhere to hide.
46:30It does get tougher every week.
46:31Every week.
46:32Gracias por ver el video.
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