I am watching the current great British bake off when I can find illegally you tubes of it and I looooove it. I mean, I miss Mel and Sue, but I don't mind the new judge or the lady presenter, though I dislike the guy kind of. But the contestants are fab as usual.

I will admit I never have watched, but I literally, as someone who sometimes makes patterns for a living, could understand how you can make the pattern without a reference- whether it is your previous patterns or a book. Pattern making and designing are two different skills, and every good pattern maker I know has to reference things. You can't just draw a pattern! I get that they mostly use draping, while I tend to draft using measurements, and that I am looking for custom fit and they are fitting models, but still...

They aren't allowed reference materials or maybe it's outside reference materials.

I don't understand why Michael didn't just go to production to say something or why he was being so cryptic about it. Or why margarita wouldn't say something.

Leaving that aside I don't know why the designers didn't complain about Claire's extensive help do Shawn way earlier. It was unfair but I guess pointing out semi cheating is considered more unfair?

Actually I think the producers should have said something but generally they seem to be hands off.

That is not what I thought would happen on PR.

I'm pissed at Claire's attitude. She broke the rules and acted like it was no big deal.

Glad she is gone. I wish someone had walked off stage durj ghr good amd evil challenge.

Sophia. The designers are allows to measure their clothes in the workroom.

They can't have a measuring tape in the hotel room. Claire was measuring gatmets she owned at the hotel room and that is what disqualified her.

Wow. That would just be so hard. I have very little concept of how I would make things without references.

I remember that there was one guy who had pattern books under his bed in the apartment and would lock himself in the bathroom with the shower running to look at them.

It sounds like she was doing it right out in the open.

Or maybe not. First it was Margarita whispering to Michael, then suddenly he's storming off and talking about it like something he has actual knowledge of...weird all around. Margarita should have spoken up when she first saw something, not pulled it out like mean girl gossip when she had gotten herself all worked up over something unrelated (and arguably unfair). Nobody came off well in all this.

Michael said she was in the bathroom measuring. So I guess maybe she didn't have the door closed all the way or she thought she was alone.

I've seen on another board reports that Amy had an interview and said the designers had talked to production about some things (not sure if that includes the measuring tape) but were ignored so Michael walked off because that couldn't be ignored.

Michael said she was in the bathroom measuring. So I guess maybe she didn't have the door closed all the way or she thought she was alone.

But that's what Margarita told him.

If Amy's right that does change things a bit