The Great British Sewing Bee seems like ages ago now, but at the time I was hooked - I cried! I cried at a program about sewing!! Please tell me I'm not the only one?

In addition to giving me a hankering to get on my sewing machine it also inspired me to learn to crochet and dig out my knitting sticks too.

I fell in love with Ann's crochet scarf and did some serious iPlayer stalking to capture every possible image that I could. It looks a tad intricate for a complete crochet beginner but I think I can fashion something along these lines, given enough time and some pretty wool.


My first attempt at crochet was helped greatly by this introduction tutorial, swiftly followed by this one. I'm quite pleased with how they turned out.

In the first episode I thought that Lauren's scarf was rather lovely too and much easier to make. I failed to get any screenshots, a Google search gave me nothing - not a picture I wanted anyway, I did happen across Lauren's online shop and blog and Tilly's blog too, so it wasn't an entirely wasted exercise. Anyway, it was a long and thin scarf, light brown with orange tassels along the length... remember it? Maybe you will when I've made it.