What to do with some gorgeous wool given to me by my lovely sister-in-law….. A chunky cream yarn studded with flecks of gold. It was crying out for a project, but what? The trouble was, that whatever I crocheted didn’t seem to work, normally because I kept loosing the gold details in the twists of the stitches. Pompoms (!!!) worked pretty well, but after experimenting with a few, I redundantly put the yarn to one side hoping that inspiration would strike sometime in the future. …..It took a while! But when I was looking for ideas for my crochet class’ first project I came across the chain stitch scarf. I teach crochet part-time at an adults education college and for each new stitch or technique mastered, I try to find a project/pattern to give the students. During the very first class I have to keep the projects simple because after housekeeping, student paperwork and learning how to hold the yarn and hook we generally only get to chain stitch. Usually we work a simple necklace made up of a long …