Each year I make a list of all the things I want to do / experience / own, e.g. in 2008 I mastered the Pavlova, in 2009 it was bacon and chocolate, this year it's cooking duck (yet to be ticked off) and numerous other to-do's, one of which is, or rather was, is... "learn to crochet"... which I have and am slowly learning to do... woohoo me! 

I made my first crochet hat which my daughter now owns (couldn't have been as bad as I thought) and my second came off the hook on 17th July, since then I've stumbled around trying to master other stitches (thank the gods for YouTube.com: Learn to Crochet, as I'm a "must see" learner not a "must read" learner) but now I'm starting to run before adequately walking as I've fallen in love with, and set my sights on, learning to make (or acquire ;) Nurse Jackie's scarf....

From season two, episode 9 & 10 which screened here (in NZ) last night (and loved as always), in a quest to find out how to, or rather where to start, with crocheting the scarf, I nabbed the following screen shots... 

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