CAN THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE START A SEWING CRAZE? By Joanne Saturday, 8th June 2013 | 0 commentsFiled under: Sewing. 81-year-old Ann Rowley has been crowned the winner of the first series of the Great British Sewing Bee, with judges May Martin and Patrick Grant praising her work as ‘exquisite' and 'excemplary'