How do I learn to crochet?

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Have just bought a gorgeous new Rowan knitting book full of lovely styles.

However some of them have a lot of crochet edges on (in fact most of them do) How can I learn? Used to crochet those blanket square when I was little, but have completely forgotten everything.

The instructions look like some sort of code!

if you can crochet blanket squares i suppose you can do the hem. try googling how to crochet. note that UK stitch instructions are slightly different from US ones.

the crotchet for dummies book is quite good.

i find learning from videos the easiest. annies attic has loads but they're us not uk terms. crochetme is good for tutorials too (again us). have a dig around at annie's attic i'm sure there are tips on how to read patterns etc.

us terms are just one step down from ours (and make more sense imo). so a uk double crochet (dc: the basic crochet stitch) is a us single crochet (sc: there's no such stitch in uk terminology), uk treble=us double etc. can't remember what the uk is for us treble - double treble maybe? anyway is much more rarely used ime. these are the only stitches - apart from ch (chain) and ss (slip stitch) which are the same in uk/us. all the fancier stitches and patterns are made up of these basics so imo it's much easier to learn than knitting.

hth

with crochet (as with knitting, only more so) it helps to get to know the structure of the stitch, i.e. that the last loop of the previous stitch sits on top of the next stitch, then you have a better idea of where you should be stitching into in the next round. it's much easier to add/lose stitches in crochet, so it really helps to do practice squares counting every stitch and using stitch markers (knitting ones won't work, i find hooky earrings good) to help keep count and mark start/end stitches etc. once you've got a feel for the structure and can make properly square squares you're sorted

Will try all those suggestions, thanks very much.