behind THE SEAMS

ou may know Miss Esme Young from the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee (GBSB.), but her career long before this. Esme was born in 1949 in Bedford and her childhood was spent with her four brothers and sister. As a child, she loved panting, drawing and crafting and it was at boarding school where her partial deafness was diagnosed. Not being able to hear clearly, she had found refuge in drawing in her notebooks. Known in those days a sticky ear, this was soon rectified and