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