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Game of Wool: Britain's Best Knitter:

Season 1

Game of Wool: Britain's Best Knitter

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Olympian and knitting fan Tom Daley welcomes 10 contestants into the Yarn Barn for a knitting competition.

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Episode 1: Season 1, Episode 1

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Tom Daley presents a knitting challenge, in which 10 amateur contestants put their skills to the test to impress judges Di Gilpin and Sheila Greenwell. In the first episode, the knitters must re-invent the classic Fair Isle design in a modern tank top. After this, they are split into two teams to knit on an epic scale - a full-sized, fully stitched sofa

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Jane Rackham

Everyone scoffed at the idea of having baking, sewing and pottery competitions on TV so don’t roll your eyes at this series. It may do for woollies what Bake Off did for cakes.

The format is similar and as warming as a tea cosy. Ten home knitters battle it out, stitch by stitch, in a charmingly named Yarn Barn in rural Scotland. It’s hosted by knitting fan Tom Daley (wearing a bonkers trailing knitted toga-style top) while the challenges are judged by softly spoken “boss stitchers” Di Gilpin and Sheila Greenwell, with one person being “cast off” each week.

We get to know the lovely contestants when, to a gentle soundtrack of click-clacking needles, they settle down on sofas for their first solo challenge — to create a Fair Isle vest. They can chat while they knit but there are moments of frustration, tension and emotion. One comments incredulously, “I cracked under the pressure of knitting… that no one was paying me to do!” They then work in teams to design an ambitious chunky-knit cover for a sofa. Whaa-a-t?

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rolenamePresenterTom DaleyJudgeDi GilpinJudgeSheila GreenwellSeries directorJoff WilsonExecutive producerJoff WilsonExecutive producerWendy RattraySeries editorAlice Almond

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