Sewing Bee winner Annie Phillips is always making and sewing cool and unique fashionable clothes of her own – including a beautiful blue dress, a baseball cap and now, the cutest knitted bonnet.

The trend began with credit-crunched families trying to mend old outfits but has soared due to the smash hit BBC2 TV programme The Great British ­Sewing Bee. The contest to find the country’s best ...