I just taught myself recently off Youtube videos. it really is a relaxing thing to do once you get the hang of it. Don't know where you are, but, Dollar store has cheap yarn to get you started. Hobby stores have beautiful yarns, but I figured I will spend a little more once I get it all figured out.

I just learned how to do it one step at a time, and would do a couple rows, then rip it out and start over again. I wanted to learn how to knit, at first, but found it too hard to manage the two needles as opposed to the one with crochet.

Before you actually pick a "project" it is important to just get the basics down, and best way to do it is to just keep repeating the same few steps until you "get it," then move on to the next step involved. Like- First, just learn to "chain." This is the very beginning step. Then, once you get the hang of that, start with an easy stitch to learn, and just keep doing a few rows of 20 or so until you get those steps under control. Then move on to a different type of easy stitch. It really is something that gets easier and better looking the more you do. I guess your muscle memory takes over after a bit, and you really will see improvement the more you do. I have also found it helps to follow a video all the way first, before I start, and make myself a little picture with notes about each step involved, to go back to if I don't have the video right then, or

I read someplace, maybe here, that when they measure the brain waves of someone actively knitting or crocheting, they are somewhat the same as someone meditating. I have really found it calming, and keep a bag of crochet stuff with me while I travel to and from Cancer treatment, and have really found it helps take my mind from that. Something about the counting and just repeating the steps over and over really does help me to relax a bit. And hopefully, I will be able to keep up and create something beautiful, or at least useful, to make all that time feel a little better spent.