{"id":43302,"date":"2025-12-13T15:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43302"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:57:53","slug":"christmas-2025-day-13-sew-this-is-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2025-day-13-sew-this-is-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2025: Day 13: Sew This Is Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-countdown-2025\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-countdown-2025\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas25c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a>Christmas 2023<\/strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">, Toyah guests on BBC One&#8217;s <em>The Great British Sewing Bee<\/em> on 21st December, alongside actor and comedian Kerry Godliman, comedian and writer Jessica Knappett and actor Hammed Animashaun.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Toyah took part in a number of festive sewing challenges, creating a variety of outfits for Christmas! Toyah also reminisced with one of the show&#8217;s hosts, Esme Young, about <em>Love Is The Law<\/em> and Princess Diana. It was Esme&#8217;s fashion house, Swanky Modes, who concepted and designed Toyah&#8217;s iconic and memorable imagery for the 1983 album, <em>Love Is The Law<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">There was a tonne of pre-broadcast press for <em>The Great British Sewing Bee<\/em>, and the programme was a ratings hit for the build-up week to Christmas. Post-airing there was also an abundance of press &#8211; print and digital, reporting on Toyah winning the show!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/the-great-british-sewing-bee\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/the-great-british-sewing-bee\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40744 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tgbsb23f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tgbsb23f.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tgbsb23f-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022 Revisit this seriously festive Toyah memory from 2023 &#8211; via numerous posts &#8211; at Dreamscape&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/the-great-british-sewing-bee\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>News Archive<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. (Photos \u00a9 BBC) PS. Apologies for that pun in the title&#8230; Couldn&#8217;t resist :)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/the-great-british-sewing-bee\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/the-great-british-sewing-bee\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40816 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/tgbsb23i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/tgbsb23i.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/tgbsb23i-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2023, Toyah guests on BBC One&#8217;s The Great British Sewing Bee on 21st December, alongside actor and comedian Kerry Godliman, comedian and writer Jessica Knappett and actor Hammed Animashaun. Toyah took part in a number of festive sewing challenges, creating a variety of outfits for Christmas! Toyah also reminisced with one of the show&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3428,3430,7],"tags":[3171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43306,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43302\/revisions\/43306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}