For Kirstie's next craft she gets weaving with some willow for a tension tray. It'll be for the hard crafts competition, and with no rules for competitors to abide by, so they can enter anything made from metal, to wood, to stone and more. It's undoubtedly going to be Kirstie's toughest prize to win at the show.

So she's enlisting the help of willow specialist Eddie Glue, who makes baskets, hampers and decorations. But she's going to face some seriously impressive competition from a local group of mosaic masters, including John XXX who's spent 100 hours creating an amazing mosaic and stone elephant

The third of Kirstie's entries will be homemade rosemary shortbread for the cookery category. With the finest of ingredients and lightness of touch guaranteed to make lip-smackingly good shortbread Kirstie rolls up her sleeves and gets stuck in. with her final batch needing the be made the night before the show, there's plenty of time for testing and tasting...

With her competitive side now fully unleashed she is enlisting a local primary school to try and win over the judges and make the most fun entry of all - a scarecrow!

As the day of the fair arrives, Kirstie is soon donning some wellies with bells on for a spot of morris dancing before she nervously waits to see how her handmade entries have fared... will she be crowned Chagford's best in show?

At each event she has to submit entries to some of the toughest craft competitions going, and with County Fairs a British institution, the rosettes on offer are seriously coveted. Along the way she meets dedicated lovers of crafts, some with decades of competition experience and umpteen prizes, all looking to be named Best in Show.

How will she cope with the pressure of competition rules? Can she cut it alongside experienced rival entrants?

In this next programme Kirstie is entering the notoriously competitive world of the Women's Institute as she prepares for her first group entry.

She is joining one of Hampshire's newest WI groups the Disparate Housewives to enter the New Forest and Hampshire County Show. They will be one of 26 WI battalions competing to win the coveted rosettes.

Kirstie will be joining Jo, Beverly, Julie, Katie and the group's founder Louise, also all competing in craft competitions for the first time. They are keen to portray a more modern image of the WI so they'd like to exhibit more contemporary crafts. Kirstie holds a classic WI tea and cake afternoon to decide what they will be making.

This is a ‘cooperative class' and the rules state they must create an exhibit using three different crafts that tells the story of a chosen book. Kirstie and the ladies agree to use The Secret Garden, as the tale they tell.

The three items they're making are a needle felt robin, a silver key necklace, and a mosaic mirror, all to represent things form The Secret Garden. Kirstie is first to turn her hand to producing a needle felt robin with the help of expert craftswoman Jayne Emerson. Using felt and coloured merino wool fleece and a handy gadget with 5 needle felt needles they set to work. But will her robin be good enough to impress the hard taskmasters that are the WI judges?

Next up Kirstie, Katie and Louise learn the art of perfecting a mosaic mirror with expert tuition from Martin Cheek. As this is the first thing Kirstie will be entering that she's co-produced, how will she fare as part of a team when so far she's flown solo?

And lastly they're making silver key pendants thanks to the art of silver clay. Larissa Johnson introduces them to the modern jewellery method, and they set to work on their keys. But who's will be good enough to sit alongside the robin and mosaic mirror?

The opposition in this competition is fiercer than ever. In an exclusive ‘show and tell' we'll see Bramley WI uncover their entry for this years competition in advance of show day. They ruffled feathers last year when they scooped 2^nd prize with their first ever entry to the cooperative class. We'll also meet Marchwood WI who have been competing at the show since it began and know how hard it is to meet the high standard of the judges.

Tension mounts on competition day when Kirstie and her teammates are faced with a sea of traditional entries. But will their modern approach win over the judges?

Flower art is essentially creating a sculpture with flowers but there are lots of official rules to follow when flower arranging, so before she can even begin Kirstie has to swot up. It can take years to master all the rules, but Kirstie only has a couple of weeks. And she's not entering just the one competition...

Her first arrangement will be for the petite class - and to help Kirstie understand the basics Sioned Rowlands teaches her some tricks of the trade at Meadowgate.

The theme for petite exhibition is ‘From the Potters Wheel' so the arrangement needs to reference this so Kirstie decides to make her arrangement base with one of her favourite cups and saucers.

Kirstie is really going to be thrown in at the deep end in this tough floral contest, as she will be against passionate professionals and enthusiastic competitions regulars. And in a first she faces a whole family of competitors - Rev Danny Reed, who arranges flowers for his eight churches; his wife Sarah, a florist who won her first flower arranging competition aged just 12; and his mum Pauline who has 45 years of competing and expertise under her belt.

The second category is the imposed exhibit - an exam like competition where all entrants are given identical flowers and components and a time limit of just two hours to make their own exhibit.

With no means of knowing what she'll be working with, Kirstie heads to the Chelsea Flower Show for inspiration and training from competition judge and Gold winning Chelsea entrant Tan Strong.

But with nothing but her own imagination and remembering everything she's learnt to help her for the final day, can Kirstie keep her cool and produce something from scratch that could win her a prize?

Kirstie knows her entry must be top notch to be placed in the category, with experienced judges looking for great design, intricate detail precision techniques to warrant a chance at being crowned Best in Show.

Once she's designed her cushion, Kirstie eagerly turns to her most favourite craft ever - something she's so hooked on she described it as ‘the crack cocaine of the craft world' - freestyle machine embroidery. This time there's an even more impressive twist to the art form; using water soluble backing to create gorgeous embroidered flowers.

But there's still a lot to learn if her cushion design is going to come together. Kirstie turns to needlework wonder woman Jo Colwill to practice her hand embroidering and applique, quilting and bordering, before Kirstie is left to complete her cushion design.

Despite having seven weeks to tinker with her creation, Kirstie finds herself working into the night on the eve of the competition, determined that she has to make sure it's completely perfect.

Once at the Great Yorkshire Show there's no going back, as Kirstie sees what her rivals have entered in her category. As she said so herself, it's all about being placed in a competition like this. Has she done enough to earn herself a coveted rosette?

Her first entry will be into the seaside-themed decoupage competition, and skilled decoupage designer Jaina Minton teaches Kirstie how to make a paper sculpture seagull that will stand on his own little handmade beach.

Next its time to create and embroidered greetings card, a category in which Kirstie is up against a Champion of Champions embroiderer Dilys who's been winning competitions like this for almost 20 years, and has made 50 - 60 embroidered cards.

Shunning the more ‘traditional' embroidered designs, Kirstie opts for something she really loves, freeform machine embroidery to design her card with a modern twist. But will something so different to Dilys' impress the judges?

The final competition entry involves some clever up-cycling - to make something new from something old; and still with the paper craft theme in mind Kirstie is introduced to paper jewellery by Phiona Richards. They're going to recycle damaged books turning their print and pictures into rose rings.

Such a simple bit of quilling produces something remarkably clever, but is it too simple for a show with such high standards as this? And with her rival in this category, master of origami Tony, who's made a replica computer from old Welsh maps, it looks like Kirstie is resigned to walking away defeated...

Scones are local and traditional to Devon, so Kirstie has to get them right. She enlists expert scone maker Richard Hunt to help her perfect a crumble-free scone. As chef at the Grand Torquay Hotel, Richard is a true expert as he and his team can produce up to 8,000 scones a day.

He lets Kirstie into his secret recipe, but she will need to practice more and eat less dough to be a Devon winner. And of course she must abide by the Devon scone etiquette of cream before jam! So next Kirstie needs damson jam to go with her scones, and that means de-stoning no less than 295 plums...

To up the ante further Kirstie is going to attempt making éclairs as her second afternoon tea cake, with the expert tuition of Loretta Lui who has worked under Raymond Blanc and Gordon Ramsay. Kirstie aims to create the perfect choux pastry for kumquat and Chantilly cream éclairs. But, it proves to be harder than she thought, and with the first patch looking less than appetising it's back to the beginning.

Throughout the programme as Kirstie is mastering her entries, her rivals are also perfecting their cakes big and small. 26-year-old Hannah was taught by her Mum to master the cupcake and has perfected her skills on a sugar craft course. She strives for perfection and hopes her cupcakes and famous chocolate brownies will take first prize.

Biker and amateur baker Danny can be found spatula in hand mixing up a sweet treat at least three or four times a week. He wants to try something unusual in the large cake competition and has spent hours, days even practicing a rich beetroot chocolate cake he hopes will impress the judges.

And full time mum Jenny has honed her baking skills for her three children. A true perfectionist, she's creating mini banoffee tartlets, and strawberries and cream cupcakes. That's if she can stop fiddling with them long enough to deem them perfect...

Never one to do things half-heartedly, as the day of reckoning nears Kirstie decides she's going to enter a second baking competition - the single cake competition. In a summer twist on a trusted Christmas cake recipe, she's creating a Caribbean fruit cake. With half the points awarded for taste alone, it's a big gamble... and when the day of reckoning finally arrives, has Kirstie bitten off more than she can chew?