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I kind of crochet. I'm left handed so it's a bit harder. I can PM you a good youtube video for watching. She does them both left and right handed and in SUPER slow mo.

I always get asked, DO YOU KNIT?! When looking at my crocheting. I then proceed to tell them, they get all pissy. Maybe that's my snob area, just being correct. I get the same way with my dog too. He's a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. And people will ask me if he's Pembroke or a Welsh. And they seem turned off when I start to explain.

But, I want to learn to do hats, is it hard?

I have had no luck teaching myself how to knit/crochet, keeps ending in failure for me.  And then I tried the Knifty Knitter- loom knitting.  Super duper easy!  All of the craft stores (and even Walmart) have the looms, you can find many patterns on the internet too. 

I've made 5 baby hats, and am in the middle of my first scarf.  Takes only a couple of hours, so I usually do it while watching tv or while we are on a road trip.  Very relaxing too after a crazy day at work.

Crocheting is super, super easy! And fun! I love to crochet, it is my therapy.

I would suggest starting out with a yarn color and a hook color that contrast strongly, so you can see what you're doing. Metal hooks are the best/let the yarn move the smoothest; I hate plastic hooks, but it's all down to personal preference. The videos I learned on (and still consult when I forget how to do a particular stitch) are here: http://www.nexstitch.com/v_crochet_videos.html. Start with the chain stitch and single crochet, those are your basics that every single other stitch builds on. Then do double crochet, then half-double. Don't worry about the ones that say "Dec" until you've mastered your regular stitches; those are for the "decrease" stitches, which you use when making a shaped garment.

Don't learn your stitches while also trying to create a project. My first crochet "project" was a giant ugly scarf-looking amalgamation of all different kinds of stitches as I was learning them haha. Just keep going until you have mastered a stitch, then start the next kind right next to it, and so on. Don't worry about making anything in particular until you have your basic stitches down, and even then, start out with small things that are square/rectangular: potholders, trivets, scarves, lap blankets, etc. It seems boring at first but the problem I run into more than anything when learning a new craft skill is getting in over my head with a huge project for my first time, getting frustrated that it didn't work, and giving up.

Good luck!!

@rebelle467:  I always say the next step after is learning to spin. Im a spinner knitter crocheter quilter and soon a weaver among with many other things. 

@Gabrielle123:  I wish knitting my garter was therapeutic. Its so thin and slips of the needles. Challenging knitting project to say the least.

I crocheted this "rug" for my granmothers' 80th birthday when I was a teenager.

This is the only time I played with needles...

@happyface:  Nice job. Especially for your first time

My FI is currently knitting a sweater which is his first project... its interesting thats for sure. 

@hatmanandbobbin:  This is so true. I could never knit with a pattern until I was in my 20s. My first time knitting I was 6 but didnt pick it up for more than a straight scarf for many many years.