Learning to crochet

I have never crocheted in my life, but my friend Sylvia had a necklace that her friend, Ginny made her that I just loved (as did all the people who saw it). So, Ginny was roped into teaching a class to my sewing group. My necklaces were way too tight as far as the crochet stitches were concerned but it turns out, I kind of like that. Plus, it would be good to make tight and loose necklaces because there is a definite difference in the look of the two. Anyway, I have made four so far and I'm having a good time with it all.











So much so that now I want to try and duplicate a scarf I bought from etsy.com that came from Turkey. I found a video of how to do it (even though it was in Portugese) and I think I have sort of figured it out and I'm attempting it. The first pic is the purchased scarf and the second one is the beginnings of my scarf.