meet the contestants

Ailsa Stephen

age: 30

hometown: North Ayrshire

occupation: assistant at a ferry company

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Ailsa has been knitting for over 20 years. She likes creating vintage styles: "Some of them are so wacky. I like doing older style designs but with modern textures and bright colours. "Her advice for first time knitters: "Don’t start with a scarf. You’ll learn 90% of what you need to know in the first five minutes, and then you’ll get bored. Learn something you want to make and you’ll feel better at the end."

Dipti Patel

age: 42

hometown: Nottingham

occupation: library worker

Dipti is a singer and a former chemist. She loves the problem-solving aspect of knitting: "You can be absolutely despising a project and not able to work it out, and then you have that lig

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