The Great British Sewing Bee

Amateur sewers test their sewing and dressmaking skills. Ten home sewers must follow a deceptively difficult pattern for a woman's top made up of four pieces.

Nine sewers return hoping to show the judges that they can make beautiful clothes on a miniature scale.

The sewers take on delicate lingerie, working with fiddly pattern pieces and the most delicate fabric.

Patrick and Esme set the seven remaining sewers the challenge of tackling techniques and garment styles from other cultures and continents.

The sewing room is transported back to the 1960s as the six remaining sewers try to prove they deserve a place in the quarter-finals.

In the quarter-final, the five remaining sewers sweat it out over activewear, creating complex garments from the most technical of fabrics.

Claudia Winkleman hosts the semi-final. The sewers must make an asymmetric yoked skirt inspired by modern Japanese pattern cutting.

Claudia Winkleman hosts the grand final of the Great British Sewing Bee. The three finalists create three pieces of evening wear to impress the judges.