The granny square was the first crochet that I learned from my mother also. Now that was a long time ago. Crocheting is a very relaxing hobby, and fun, and like you said working on a blanket when it is cold is a great way to stay warm. For grannies I generally use a G hook, looks like you want to be real warm and are using an E hook. have fun, and aren't walks that you get to share with close family so so much more fun when you have the walk area all to yourselves. Enjoy your day.
I’m not familiar with G and E I used a 6.5m hook I tend to use a bigger size than the yarn suggests.
I forgot about the needle size thing, I think not sure 6.5 is same a an E , I just use the size I feel like when making granny squares, it gets hard though since I use both the E and G needle a lot and it does make a difference in the size of the square, Also since I am just a hack,(don't do it every day or even month), my yarn tension tends to vary a lot.
I watch videos on YouTube and the crochet different to me as in they hold the hook differently. I swap and change between different things I’m loving loom knitting at the moment but needle knitting is the one that baffles me with tension. I struggle to knit because I want it to look as neat as machine made items and it never does with needles but with loom knitting it almost does.
I haven't tried loom knitting yet, may have to give it a shot, You are left handed? My wife is left handed, and she has a hard time with the right hand crocheting videos also. Me I prefer a book to learn, that way I don't need to keep turning the video off and on, just flip a page.
No luckily I'm right handed and I prefer picture patterns as I can figure out if and where I go wrong
I had to learn the picture patterns, still not real good at it, but I bought a Japanese Crochet pattern book, because it had some nice things in there. Problem of course is I could not read Japanese, but they did have the picture patterns, so I learned them.
That sounds right up my street I’ve been looking at the Japanese crochet patterns and tatting patterns they have some very complicated things in there