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After lunch, it's time to practise our saddle-stitching: sewing both sides of a seam at once.
"But what about what's above it?" Wise and others spent years drawing up their submission to the IDA, collecting reams of light readings and stitching together an alliance of local councils, parks' bodies and community groups to produce an exterior lighting master plan that influences the construction of new developments in the area.
His best mate, a priest, is advising him to lie to keep his job, the media is stitching him up from every angle, and he's trying to take an ideological stand against the draconian, unnecessary anti-terrorism legislation of his terrified party.
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More than 120 embroidered napkins have been presented to Brunelcare's Saffron Gardens dementia care home at the culmination of the Napkin Project, which has involved generations of families sharing their sewing skills, workplace colleagues spending lunch breaks stitching, and a whole host of others using their creativity to help people with dementia.
Four hours of solid stitching later – of slippery hands and yelling at instructions, of holding the needle with pliers because sewing through three layers of shoe leather is basically like pushing a buffalo carcass through a catflap – and the name Simple Way started to look like a sarcastic threat.
They obey every rule of good jeans: medium-rise waist; straight leg; slim-ish but not skinny; raw, indigo denim (it'll fade); absolutely no branding, or unnecessary stitching, or rips, or diamanté.
My stitching gets off to a better start.
We clamp the leather in a wooden vice, a "stitching clam", and using an awl (a small knife) we make holes in the leather along the marks – needles alone aren't enough.
It capped a good night for BBC2, which had 3 million viewers (14%) for the Great British Sewing Bee from 8pm, stitching together a 10.6% share of the peaktime audience between 6pm and 10.30pm, more than double Channel 4's 4.6%.
Because her mother was a dressmaker she knew exactly how things should be made, how hems should be turned and how stitching should be done.
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