I came across this beautiful cream shell stitch scarf by bella dia, and simply had to make one for myself.  Do you think that I’ve got enough scarves yet 😉 , well at the very least they are good crochet practice!  I promise that I will eventually make some to give away!  I haven’t got very far with this one yet; it took three false starts before I found these excellent instructions for solid shell stitch, and also worked out that I needed to do my foundation chain row on a larger hook.  Learning by trial and error is time consuming, but hopefully I won’t make the same mistakes twice!

The Patons Jet yarn is courtesy of a Lincraft voucher – I’m a member of the Lincraft club, so earn points with every purchase, and every now and then they send me a voucher – worringly, I’ve received quite a few vouchers, which indicates to me that I must be spending far too much money at Lincraft.  It’s my local fabric/sewing shop, but there are definitely others that I prefer!  So I am considering this scarf to be “free”.