ok i need help to learn

My mother taught me to crochet when I was about six but somehow I managed to learn to do it like no one else in the world and I hold the hook and thread all wrong.  The results are ok, though, just that I can't show anyone how.  What in particular do you both find difficult?  If there is anything at all I can do to de-mystify it I'll give it a go!
Daisybel

This is what I do to achieve a square:

I make a line of about seven or eight chain, then join to the first chain with a slip stitch. I have a circle.

Make three chain (to count as a US double crochet stitch). Make two more US double crochet into the big circle. [This gives you a block of three stitches together.]

Make three chain so you have a little dog lead type thing coming off the top of your last double crochet stitch. This will be a corner loop. Then do three double crochet into the big circle. [Now you have a block of three, then a corner loop, then another block of three.] Do three chain to make another corner loop. Then do another three doubles into the big circle, and another three chain to make your third corner loop. [Now you have three blocks and three loops]

Do another three doubles into the big circle and then another three chain. You now have a kind of doorstep sticking up, made up of your first three chain (which formed a double crochet sized stitch) and the two double crochet following that. Slip stitch your last corner loop to the top of the doorstep. You should now have four little blocks of stitches and four corner loops. That's your first round of a granny square. Hooray! [After that you can do all sorts of different designs, but it is probably easiest to carry on with a granny square made of blocks of three doubles]

Do slip stitches across the top of that first block, then a slip stitch into the first corner loop. Make three chain to take the place of a first double crochet. Do two more double crochet into that corner loop. [You now have a block of three as the start of your second round.]

Do three chain (new corner loop) and then do a block of three double crochet into the same corner loop as the previous block - you should have a block of three stitches, new corner loop and another block of three stitches all into that first corner. Make three chain, do NOT do any stitches into the next block of three double crochet. Reach right across that block and do three doubles into the next corner loop, three chain, then another block of three into the same corner loop. * Make three chain, ignore the block below it and make a block, three chain and block into the next corner loop. **

Repeat from * to ** and you have now nearly finished the second round - you just have to make three chain and slip stitch them to the top of the looming doorstep.

Then you slip stitch across to the next loop and slip stitch into that loop, three chain to make the first stitch and two double crochet to make the first block of that row, and carry on indefinitely. The more rows you do, the more blocks you will accumulate between the corner loops. You should have a square getting bigger and bigger. When you are confident with that you can try doing every round in a different colour. When you get that far, the sky's the limit and it is just a matter of finding the time to experiment with bigger or smaller stitches and so on.

This is the easiest way to start, I think, and techniques can be improved and polished later on. In no time at all you'll be following patterns and making blankets or baby clothes or anything you like.

I hope this all makes sense. I'll be back at work tomorrow but will try to look at my emails at various times in the day (depends on amount of work, usually a huge amount). I will definitely look in the evening, anyway. Good luck!

I don't understand anything like Skype, not really computer minded. That would be a much better way to explain, though.

Daisybel, do you have friends or family that could show you how to get on skype? I can try to walk you through it; it's not really hard. I taught my 65 year old mother how to do it, and she lives all the way in America, so I can probably teach you.

Losty, my skype name is the same as everywhere else--talscudi. If you can figure out how to get on there, I can show you how to do stuff.

I'm always jealous of people that can explain using words. I aspire to be a writer and yet when someone says "okay so explain..." I wind up going "LSDKGSKDFGDFKGD LET ME SHOW YOU"

Unfortunately, no, I don't have anyone at all who could help me get on Skype. Later this year I hope to go and stay with a cousin for a few days and I will get all the info I can from her about it and see if it is something I could set up or cope with. I am anyway not suitable to show anyone how to crochet because I hold the hook and thread completely wrong and transfer from hand to hand several times every single stitch. The end result is OK but anyone who tried to learn by watching me would go mad.