The Keep Dancing Podcast

It’s lingerie week and Ellie, Milly and Meg have loaded up our massive brassiere cannon with double entendres for you to enjoy. This episode contains:

- A brief foray into the fashion welding on the Big Flower Fight

- Were those upholstery fabrics?

- The genuinely grim nighties and their clashing Jim-jam pals

- Could we get a quick tutorial on Nicole’s dungarees transformation?

- The topological difficulties of a delicate wee sleep set

- Could we also get a Comfy Goth sewing book from Liz?

Every Strictly Result Ever tea towels now available at www.totallyflagulous.com

We’re making masks alongside our regular sewing! Mask patterns available from:

Hobbycraft https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas/sewing/how-to-make-a-face-mask

Big community sew https://www.bigcommunitysew.co.uk/

Curved face mask https://www.craftpassion.com/face-mask-sewing-pattern/#face-mask-tutorial

We’re thinking about:

- Sewing patterns instructions are just hard sometimes! You should mark your patterns!

- The people who make your clothing have to put your plackets in.

- Menswear is BORING: thank you for coming to our TED talk

- Is toddling a sport?

- Tennis is definitely a sport but tennis is also Fashion

- What do they mean when they say ‘punk’?

- What’s the maths of sending people home on the Sewing Bee?

Plus! We’re in the Huffington Post talking about our hopes for Strictly 2020.

Children’s week shows who’s got precision and detail and who just rips the arms off the doll when faced with a challenging fit.

- They’ve run out of pom pom trim!

- Ellie hates mustard (the colour) but has collar advice!

- The ideological status of smock dresses

- Some very upsetting marabou trim

- Fancy dress tales of yore

- Did you not have enough fabric to cut an extra pocket?

Oh, and the Strictly Tea Towels will appear at www.totallyflagulous.com when they’re ready.

Keep Sewing 2: I Think It’s To Do With Your Sewing

It’s holiday sewing! Loud patterns and towelling and unwise decisions regarding pockets

- Palazzo pants: there’s a but there, and it’s a big but

- We’re loving Clare’s Instagram

- Do those hammam towels actually get you dry?

- Pattern matching horror stories

- Fiona’s pockets of doom

The Keep Dancing Podcast crew celebrate Achievement In Frocks by examining the BBC’s new series of Sewing Bee. Ellie is joined by Emily, Elliot and Meg to judge the seams.

- Wrap skirts and flagship university buildings: why both of them have wind problems

- When you can’t help but go for the metallics

- Is the transformation challenge a good way of showing sewists skills?

- Who’s going down to Eastbourne with a bathing machine?

- Full. Bust. Adjustment.

The Keep Dancing Podcast crew convene in their separate living rooms to keep you company. Ellie, Anne, Elliot and Vikki are in varying degrees of isolation and have gone varying degrees of stir crazy.

- If AJ & Kevin aren’t going to be there, what will we even talk about next series?

- Should the 2020 season of Strictly be more like Fame Academy?

- Is Mr Motivator keeping well?

- What hot 2020 pop bops will become awkward tangos & cha chas?

- How do you even cast Strictly this year? Plus, our usual plea for Nicola Adams to hit the dancefloor. And Queen Bee Nicola Roberts. And some people who aren’t called Nicola too.

Even in lockdown, we’re still making *LOADS* of #content.

It’s been a long old Q4 but finally we end up back where we began: Kelvin and Oti’s victory makes this the season of The Samba. Ellie is joined by Emily, Elliot, Meg, Vikki and Anne to wrap it all up in a bow.

What else have we learned?

- Will’s ACL is getting better!

- The winner isn’t dancing with their partner on the tour. AGAIN.

- A recommendation to watch Top Hat

- Sometimes you just have to have Busom Engineering

- Why showdances are like ‘Do You Remember Opal Fruits?’

- Frock of the Series/Season!

We have finalists! By default! Ellie is joined by Vikki, Elliot and Meg to review the eight semi final dances and look ahead to the smorgasbord of delights that will be the Grand Final.

Also:

- We struggle to name the 5th one of One Direction

- Should you win Strictly if you can’t cha cha cha?

- We super, super miss Danny Mac

- Does Amy lift?

- A dispute over the nature of am-dram

- Strictly 2019 cross stitch charts are on their way!

- And so are commemorative tea-towels (no, really)

- What are songs that are 160bpm?

- An absolutely enormous shout for Karim’s show dance

PLEASE NOTE: it looks like we lost the review of Emma's waltz (some of our best work, such a tragedy) to the techno glitch demon that affected the start of the Kelvin review. I'm sorry, we'll talk about it in the Grand Final hot takes.

Musicals Week! Everyone loves a musical, a lovely festive treat for the whole family on topics such as Victorian child abuse, grinding poverty, dying cats and weird vintage racist tropes. With songs! Ellie is joined by Anne, Emily, Meg and Vikki to gaze into the middle distance and sigh.

Flights of fancy include:

- Heaps of praise for Drag Craig

- The FA Cup Draw of Dance Fusion

- Further footwear grumbling

- Someone evolved Kelvin’s wig

- Childhood VHS skulduggery

- Health & safety implications of aerial work

- So. Much. Content.

- Why Charleston?

- But specifically why Charleston to Thoroughly Modern Milly? See Vikki’s review of the recent revival. https://tinyurl.com/ugaoatv

- Which of the Drag Race UK Queens should join the Strictly 2020 cast?

- A weird level of food-themed imagery and a spectacular portmanteau/pun

The post Blackpool reset hits hard! We’re less grumpy than Craig but that’s not saying much. Ellie is joined by Vikki, Anne and Emily to review a worryingly short show.

- Bruno’s routine described as ‘mind-searing’, ‘indelible’ and ‘a little bit cheap’

- Do Not Mention The Samba Curse

- ~Live Audio Dance Demonstrations!~

- Emily reports back from the Cannon Hall Regency Ball

- Does Karim need to bring back Hacker T Dog?

- We suggest synonyms to prevent any more shocking upstairs/downstairs chat

- They silently dropped a ‘thon!

- The remaining numbers on Emma’s dance card provoke mingled awe and dread

- Tell us more about the history of the Samba!